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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    ^ That's going to be hard to beat. The GTX460 beats it by around 10 frames, but it also costs around $200. For $200 you can get an HD5830, which dominates the GTX460. This generation of graphics races is pretty much neck and neck, one barely outdoing the other. ATI takes the final crown though with the 5970 and the ASUS 5870 X2.

    I'm presently looking at a combo deal on Newegg that gets one an ASUS motherboard with a 790FX chipset (that means Crossfire but no USB3.0 or SATA 6Gb/s), an AMD Phenom II X4 965, and a Sapphire HD5770 1GB all for $394.99. After rebate, it's $359.97. Am thinking of grabbing it and some G.Skill RAM to overhaul this six year old beast. Anybody have better suggestions?
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    How does the 5830 "dominate" the gtx 460? Most benchmarks I've seen of the two card's are pretty close.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    Benchmarks I saw had the $200 5830 beating the 768MB GTX460 pretty easily, whereas the more expensive 1GB GTX460 closed the gap.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    I'm in love with my HD5850. That's what I would recommend to anyone.
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    I am in love with my Phenom II X4.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    I just bought a Phenom II X4 965, Sapphire HD5770 1GB, 2x2GB of DDR3 1333 RAM, an Antec 300 case, Logitech Illuminated keyboard, and this motherboard. Also had to get a new DVD drive because motherboard lacks IDE cables.

    Total price before rebates: $628.89

    After rebates: $571.89

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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    How much for that antec 300 case? It's kind of old now, you could have gotten a CM elite 430 or something.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    I like the look of the Antec 300 though. It was $60 before rebate, and $50 after. Also a $7 off promo code, so that makes it $43. What I really wanted was the AMD Edition Cooler Master HAF 932, but I can't justify dropping $150 on a case. That right there would get me a second H5770 for Crossfire.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    CM's Sileo 500 is easily the best case out there.
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    Re: Building a computer? Need advice/suggestions? Come here!

    Maybe, but it also costs 110USD. The Antec 300 is actually one of the best cases, if not the best case, for the $50 price point.
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