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chrmjenkins
macrumors 603
stonyc
macrumors 65816
jav6454
macrumors Core
If you absolutely can't spend over $200, get a 5830. It's better than the GTX 465 and GTX 460. Or hell, find a GTX 285, or a used 4870X2.
ARF900
macrumors 65816
Well I wouldnt call myself an enthusiast but Ive built PCs since becoming a mac person, I need a laptop and it makes more sense for me to have a MB/MBP and then build a PC which is half the price and more powerful than an imac and just use it strictly for gaming. I use the MBP for everything else.
jav6454
macrumors Core
No! Bad newbie! That's the abortion of the 5800 series, overvolted piece of cr*p.
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
jav6454
macrumors Core
Saphire 5770 Vapor-X can with a nice overclock, which should do much since the Vapor-X chamber is perfect.
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
jav6454
macrumors Core
chrmjenkins
macrumors 603
460 (with 1GB) looks like a winner. Good performance/dollar with smaller card size and very low temps. That what you're getting?
chrmjenkins
macrumors 603
No surprise there. I would have made the same choice too. Any plans to SLI in the future or are you a strictly one card man?
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
It will just be one card for the foreseeable future. I've seen some reviews mention dead silent 900 MHz overclocks on this card too.
chrmjenkins
macrumors 603
And that's why it's a win. With stock temps like the reviews show, I'd expect it to have a lot of headroom. It's a shame the initial fermi launch wasn't cards like the 460.
I've wanted to build another PC ever since I built a P4 with 9800 Pro rig many moons ago. Just have to talk the wife into it somehow 😀 Enjoy the card! What are you coming from?
Eidorian
macrumors Penryn
thejadedmonkey
macrumors G3
PC enthusiast here. After building my PC's my whole life, I switched to OS X mid-way through a semester at college, because the MBP was the slickest laptop I could find and my laptop died. Now I'm back to a PC, because I'm sick of OS X and Apple's business practices. I never had to use the PoS called Windows Vista, but Windows 7 is simply marvelous.
I see two ideal setups: One of which is using a Mac Pro, and just changing out the graphics card and add RAM to keep up with the latest Crysis version.
Another setup is to have an iMac, then build a gaming PC every so often that supports the latest bells and whistles. This may be a cheaper avenue, provided one can find a way to get the PC working through DisplayPort.
Another setup is to have an iMac, then build a gaming PC every so often that supports the latest bells and whistles. This may be a cheaper avenue, provided one can find a way to get the PC working through DisplayPort.
MusicEnthusiast
macrumors 6502
I got involved in building a custom gaming rig with my brother. With a little researching and hunting for sales on Newegg, we finally put together a machine clocked in at 3.0 ghz Core 2 Duo (Quad at the time was pricier), 640 GB hard drive, 4 GB DDR2 RAM, an ATI Radeon 4650 Sapphire video card, and a huge Antec 900 case with blue LED lights. It was built around the 2008 holiday season and still runs like a champ with Windows 7. For any desktop I will never stop building. For any notebook, on the other hand, I have yet to switch to Mac. Currently I own an HP dv3t running Windows 7, and have taken good care of it through my college years thus far. Perhaps in 3 years I'll bite the bullet and try the MacBook Pro (or whatever it will be called by then), and hopefully take advantage of some new features that people are still waiting for either its release or prices to drop (SSD and USB 3.0). It might be a while, but it's worth the wait.
So all in all, I'm not an ex-PC enthusiast, but on the verge of making a switch with the notebook experience. 😉
So all in all, I'm not an ex-PC enthusiast, but on the verge of making a switch with the notebook experience. 😉