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Originally Posted by klem
I usually build my own. I proposed my parts list to Scan, looking for a discount  and they came back with an adaptation of their Black Ops system. Their core product was an Asus Sabertooth mobo, i7 950 o/c to 4.2GHz, 6Gb memory, plus the other bits I wanted. I think theirs was cased but they put in the case I asked for, they seem flexible. |
Well if you add all the parts for your system to your cart (using 'Today Only' for deals, and it doesn't come to much less than they'll build it for you, you have all the details to make the best choise for you. I bought an i7-930, 6gig 1600 ram, asus p6x58d-e for £434 ( a month or two ago) and when I added the other parts and compared to a pre OC'ed system it was a big saving (but it might not be for you).
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I think I'm likely to wait the rest of this month to hear about the 6970 "due for release in November".
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The 69xx series has been pushed back to Dec 13th for the information release, so the cards will hopefully be out soon after that.
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It should top the 5870 and is optimised for Tesselation although Oleg has just stated that SoW doesn't use Tesselation but "could be considered for about 4-5 years time upgrade"
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He's mentioned a few times about tesselation, and at the moment it looks like the cards that are better at tesselation won't get a benefit. 4-5 years will probably get extended, and we'll get new cards again by then.
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The AMD website stated a 500W PSU for a 5870 system and I went 600w to allow for one more 5870 in the future. I have a 750w in the cupboard but it doesn't have four 6pin PCIe lines (although I think I can adapt the molex 4 pins for a second card). I'll look at a larger PSU though.
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I have a 5 year old 600W psu, which should do me for a new single GC, but I wish I had more power available, and could SLi/CF if I wanted.