I'm not sure. I should think so, since they are all based on the same chip. The only things I can think of that might guzzle watts are fans and overclocking. Buy a reference-clocked card with passive cooling, and you can eliminate that problem.
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Radeon 3840
what settings on average can it run Left4Dead
Not familiar with Left4Dead. Since it runs on source and that graphics card is fairly good, I'd imagine you'd be able to run it on high pretty smoothly.
E: Wait, what? Do you mean the 3850? In that case yes I'm 99% sure you'd be able to run it on high smoothly.
fuck i meant 4830
apologies, i'm an idiot
Actually I'm building an entirely new computer :B
Case: Centurion 5 Cooler Master
HDD: Seagate 320 GB
Motherboard: MSI K9A2 Platinum
CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition
RAM: 4 Gigs DDR2
Power Supply: OCZ Stealth X Stream 600w
Graphics Card: Asus EAH4830 512MB DDR3
also got vista 64bit and NOD32 antivirus :)
Ok, so we started building the computer, have some issues with the screws and eventually get the mboard in. We put in the CPU, everything's going relatively smooth so far (though all I've done so far is hold cables). Dad starts applying the thermal paste to the CPU, and here's the problem. He didn't apply a BB-sized amount of paste on, he applied like 8 BBs. I've looked at quite a few many guides, and they really aren't clear. I come to you with this question: What do we use to remove the paste off of the CPU? (and yes, its Arctic Silver)
Oh also the grey square on the bottom of the heatsink is the thermal pad right :E
Not to be an ass but
http://letmegooglethatforyou.com/?q=...+paste+removal