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Processor | FX 8350 @ 4.00 Ghz with 1.28v |
Motherboard | Gigabyte 990FX-UD3 v4.0, Hacked Bios F4.x |
Cooling | Silenx 4 pipe Tower cooler + 2 x Cougar 120mm fan, 3 x 120mm, 1 x 200 mm Red LED fan |
Memory | Kingston HyperX DDR3 1866 16GB + Patriot Memory DDR3 1866 16GB |
Video Card(s) | Asus R9 290 OC @ GPU - 1050, MEM - 1300 |
Storage | Inland 256GB PCIe NVMe SSD for OS, WDC Black - 2TB + 1TB Storage, Inland 480GB SSD - Games |
Display(s) | 3 x 1080P LCDs - Acer 25" + Acer 23" + HP 23" |
Case | AeroCool XPredator X3 |
Audio Device(s) | Built-in Realtek |
Power Supply | Corsair HX1000 Modular |
Software | Windows 10 Pro 64 bit |
Minimum hardware requirements for Windows 7
Architecture 32-bit/64-bit
Processor speed 1 GHz processor
Memory (RAM) 1 GB of RAM/2 GB of RAM
Graphics card Support for DirectX 9 graphics device with 128MB of graphics memory (for Windows Aero)
HDD free space 16 GB of available disk space 20 GB of available disk space
Optical drive DVD drive (only to install from DVD/CD Media)
#1 - if you got a 4850 plugged in, no it wont save energy
#2 - plug the one from the 4850 into the monitor
#3 Physics processing at the moment is still what i would call in its early stages, despite being around for a long time no graphics manufacturer made any REAL move to support it until just recently. - there are still only a handful of games that actually make full use of Proper physics at the moment so its not really important unless you got money to throw away
#4 Hybred SLi will never be as effective as a full on SLi or Crossfire rig as embedded graphics processors only have so much power to give & its not enough.
a 285 will run circles around your 4850
Thanks for the detailed reply.
So I heard one of the good features of Hybrid CF or SLI with onboard is saving energy like shutting off the discrete graphics card, is this not true?