RM7k system and he opted for 650W? Wow...

This is getting out of topic...BTW, I think the RM7k does include some widescreen LCD in the equation no? And digital speakers, Razer keyboards and mouse...etc. etc...

My suggestion is to get a vanilla HD3870 - from whatever brand that you trust - then get a HR03GT and a fan. It may cost much more but at least, it is a lot cooler (up to 25°C cooler in some cases) and you are sure to have a good time OC-ing.

I don't see the point of getting more than 2 GC. Even 2 is already overkill. Getting one is easy to be sold later for upgrade, but getting more than that, will be much harder. Then again, there are so many CF and SLI affeciandos here in LYN. I would rather save that money for future upgrades or upgrades to other parts of my PC.

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Added on January 3, 2008, 1:16 pmYep, that's what is written. Don't bet on it in Malaysia though.

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 3 2008, 01:16 PM

Yes. There's two way to mount it. Take a look HERE.

It's possible. Just don't use really big fans...and hopefully your northbridge heatsink is not big ones.

Thermalright...not ThermalTake. Expensive yes, but performance is unquestionable...but it's not the best bang for the buck.

You do realized that it is overclocked...

What the heck. 8800GT does not fully support Dx10.1...how do you compare?

Asus P5E is not bad. Maximus Formula is good. They have almost identical performance.

What do you mean which one is better? In terms of what? FPS? Image Quality? Thermal production? OC-ing?

3Dmark does not use Dx10.1 as of present. It is useless to compare 2 different products with 2 different settings especially since one of it is incapable of performing one of the settings.

Oh...only high quality ones you buy original lah...not high quality ones? Don't bother or :ahem:ahem:?

Ah...off topic, where did you find these on Malaysia shores? I'm interested in their PSU.

Let's see what the IceQ3 version has to offer. Hope it comes with BIOS fix as well.

You crack me up...haha~! look carefully la...it's 777 Core lah...

Got my HIS HD3870...First ATI card I've got ever since I started building my own PC with a GeForce 256. Setting is 885MHz core and 1350MHz (2700MHz DDR) memory at the moment. Still on stock cooling. Fan is extremely loud at 100%...so I set it at 75% (it reads 74% somehow...). Temperature at load is astoundingly high at 70+°C. Plays Bioshock very smoothly at the moment. Still optimizing the settings though...Will wait for the HR-03GT for further overclocking and optimizing.

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 9 2008, 06:54 PM

Yes it will void the warranty. But the lower the temperature, the more you can overclock...up to a certain limit.

Can you google up all the benchmarks around the web? HD3870 stock does not beat 8800GT stock.

The power units Odin GT are more advanced as they come with monitoring programme that is able to control the basic power unit parameters, with four temperature sensor elements and fan speed control. The Odin pro has the possibility to change its fan illumination colour.

Think wisely man. You sure you want to get a 256MB version? It's seriously crippled against 512MB.

Somebody is bound to ditch his/her RV670...when R680 comes out...

That's kind of hard to achieve with his processor...even quad core extreme and vga pencil mod...

This post has been edited by clayclws: Jan 12 2008, 10:42 PM