Source Engine is very easy to run for any modern graphics card, likewise COD4. You'll get blazing framerates with any of the cards judging by every benchmark available, so base it on price and featureset. My tuppence, anyway.
Anandtech review charts here
To summarise, at load: power usage is about a third less (by the WoW figures), temperature about equivalent but at the expense of 16dB. louder 4890.
Idle power is a jaw-droppingly low 18W for the 5770 as well.
From everything I've seen you'll not see the benefit of the 4890 over the 5770 at 1680x1050 a huge amount, because the memory bandwidth on the card isn't as much of an issue at that res. What you will see is continually improving performance from the 5770 and more future proofing, as well as...
Speaking from the UK, RAM prices are slowly creeping up and have been for a while, along with a number of other components... it's frustrating because now is the right time to build a new PC - Win7, DX11 cards, great price/performance ratios from competition - but absolutely the wrong time from...
Bah, stupid work proxy blocks the images on the bittech article! Can anyone type out the list, or - at least - let me know if the M4A79XTD is on there? It's the board I'm contemplating for an imminent build with an x3, would be very nice to get the unlock and would help assuage some of the i5...
Looks like the 650W for me then, that 450W PSU seemed a bargain considering the make and features but if it's not to be...
Thanks for the input guys - it's really appreciated. Glueing my eyeballs to reviews can only teach me so much, after all! (speaking of which - Lord Almighty, your site is...
Hi guys...
I realise it's generally bad karma to sign up to a forum to ask a question, but forgive me just this once, please... I've read everything I can on every topic I can, but PSUs have me stumped because it's such a critical component and I want to be on the safe side.
I've been...
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