Holy crap insta want. Diplomacy was kinda meh, this sounds amazing.
Intel graphics cards are horrible.
AMD currently only has one 40nm card out, and it's a midrange card. They have GDDR5 but a smaller bus size to keep costs down. They're profitable, and they aren't winning in performance, but Nvidia has -one- card up on them. It's not that big a deal. The fact that nvidia can't even get their own midrange 40nm/dx10.1 cards out is proof that their design isn't very scalable, while ATI is having no problems. Oh, let's also get to mentioning. Sure, Nvidia is indeed the performance king, b
Woah really, the 4770 was over $300 AUD 0.o woah.
@themadmanazn you obviously have no idea what you're talking about. ATI competes fine with nvidia? Nvidia has the best card on the market right now, but the 4870x2 is $150 cheaper for a not very noticable difference. Crossfire works better then SLI (you can crossfire different cards, you can't with SLI.. and it seems to scale better as well, see: 4870 crossfire vs gtx 285 SLI) Especially since the 48xx series, AMD has had far, far better price/performance then Nvidia. It's a joke, Nvi
@themadmanazn Umm, the Phenom II 940 beats the q9400 at most tasks, while the 955 beats the q9550. Yes, they can't compete with core i7, but very, very few people need the power offered by it.
So your processor cost almost as much as my entire rig with monitor, annd.. you -may- see a difference of 7-10fps in games. Phenom II x4 940 BE @ 3.4Ghz ATI Radeon HD 4870 512mb make up the most important parts, the graphics card is -very- slightly slower, the processor is somewhat slower due to lack of hyperthreading but you won't see most of that in games.
There's never been a reason to buy this if you know the slightest thing about overclocking, just buy the 920 if you need to. Personally though, I'm an AMD guy. My Phenom II is amazing for the price.
