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(by 3kJodo)Ouch! upon further review 5870s are a bit out of reach atm perhaps christmas time how bout a decent card oh 100 bucks range to tide over till december or would that be a waste and just eat the 400 bucks now and bear the wrath of wife

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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I was just teasing russ ;)

I spent the extra on the 965 for comparisons only. I had a feeling the 955 and 965 would be damn similar if not the same. I basically bit the bullet, so others could use any info I gave, to base their decision on. Plus I kind of like having "The best". And the stock numbers are better ;)
I don't have a cutting edge GPU yet, or CPU...but I intend to remedy that in the next few months :D First things first, I need to concentrate on my friggin car. Transportation definitely comes first LOL!

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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Looks like I'll be replacing an led or 2. Half of my led has burnt out! Has it been 4 yrs already LOL! I guess this gives me the oppertunity to switch to a Black light/UV led :D
Yes, I know. Dusty. Believe it or not, I can't keep up with the amount of dust this area see's...
It takes a considerable time for the LED to light up too :(

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Originally posted by rick5446:

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Hey Russ just remember you've still got 2day . Nobody knows about tomorrow 4 sure, and Yesterdays gone
TALK ATTCHA LATER

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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Looks like I'll be replacing an led or 2. Half of my led has burnt out! Has it been 4 yrs already LOL! I guess this gives me the oppertunity to switch to a Black light/UV led :D
Yes, I know. Dusty. Believe it or not, I can't keep up with the amount of dust this area see's...
It takes a considerable time for the LED to light up too :(

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Originally posted by 3kJodo:

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Ahh the kernels of wisdom continue!! this c2 c3 stepping thing nixed 2 cpus of the 4 I was looking at which funny enough left yours and omegas cpus left hmm to spend 20 more dollars or not

Ouch! upon further review 5870s are a bit out of reach atm perhaps christmas time how bout a decent card oh 100 bucks range to tide over till december or would that be a waste and just eat the 400 bucks now and bear the wrath of wife

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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yeah, IMO 2 5850s > 5970. exactly same peformance, very much less money.


i surely doubt you will need more power for a LONG time. plus i doubt in the end you will CF the 5970 as by that time new cards will be out.

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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yeah, IMO 2 5850s > 5970. exactly same peformance, very much less money.


i surely doubt you will need more power for a LONG time. plus i doubt in the end you will CF the 5970 as by that time new cards will be out.

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Originally posted by omegaman7:

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I like the idea of 2 5850's. But darnit...I know nothing about crossfire. I know nothing about bridging ANY GPU LOL! And given how much power is required, I think I'll stick with the 5970(though it's also power hungry). As soon as I can get it that is. I think my current PSU can handle a 5970, but I don't know about 2 5850's. And most importantly, there can be bugs involved in crossfire/Sli, as well as games simply not supporting dual GPu's. Which is total BS. I'm not even a programmer, and I can see the ability to program in such a way, that 2 or 4 GPU's should not matter. Heck, the same goes for CPU's...

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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omega, you have a HX750, unless you want 2 5970s or 2 GTX480s your PSU will eat up anything else.


your right sam, i just checked, and im shocked. The 5850s price has increaced loads! They are all near 250 or above now. And i don't get why, seeing as the 5830 has dropped to about 170. Its stupid really, but seeing the 5970 down to 500 is good.

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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@russ

i see what you are saying. Well i couldn't really give any sort of real world results for the h50. I changed case when i put it in, going from the SG02 to the SG03, where fan placement, hdd placement and fansize are completely different, not to mention its a verticle case, and no horizontal. Also i swapped from a 45nm E5200 to a 65nm Q6600. So i never used any other CPU with the H50.

in my case i have 2 fans, both in the front, both 120mm. For the H50 i use the stock case fan and not the corsair fan, though this might not be the best idea, because those fans really don't push that much air, but they are dead quiet. I also placed the H50 on the top fan (both fans touch each other vertically) and made it an exhaust, which i don't think is working great either. The other fan cools the GPUs. Any idea on what 2 fans to get?

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Originally posted by sammorris:

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They had them inside the case, but the idea was, I believe, to complement front air intake, such that it ended up in all parts of the case, rather than just stagnating in the hard drive area. The case in question was the Khaos, a hugely expensive 'experimental' if you will. However, more standard cases such as the Antec Nine Hundred also have a system that allows fans to be fitted behind the hard disks as well as in front.

As for the weather it's interesting you should say that. Until tuesday, we had a period of unusual warmth here, with temperatures hitting 81ºF in London and 79ºF here. For May in the UK, especially in the north, that's very hot by comparison. Today it's 59ºF at 2pm, which is about right for this time of year. What made the weather so humorous is I had returned from a field trip in Tenerife to discover that the daytime temperatures back home were actually slightly warmer than where I'd left!

After how unpleasant it was back home on the few hot days I decided to invest in a portable air conditioner, and am more than satisfied with how useful it's been so far. I'm hoping I can squeeze it in the car back home at the end of term to cool my sauna of a room there, which is less than half the size of this one.

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Originally posted by shaffaaf:

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russ i can't move the H50 down to the second fans, as yes both GPUs are millimeters away from the bottom fan, so the rad won't fit, and i can't add a push pull config to the rad on the top fan as it'll block the 24pin ATX slot. I did say it was cramped :P.

well the fan on my old 4870's vf1000 broke, and compared to my new one, it wasn't as fast on the lowest setting, nor was it was bright (blue led in fan) so as per bittech recommendation for a 4890 imma get the £12 akasa vortexx neo blue. While this wasn't enough to quaily for scans free delivery, i decided to buy a fan aswell, so i have bought a gentle typhoon 1450 aswell. Love to see how that goes

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