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Processor | AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition (rev. C2) |
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Motherboard | ASUS M5A97 AM3+ ATX Motherboard |
Cooling | Cooler Master Hyper TX3 |
Memory | Corsair Dominator 8GB (2 x 4GB) PC3-10666 1333mHz1.6v Dual Channel DDR3 (CMP8GX3M2B1333C9) |
Video Card(s) | XFX Radeon HD 6850 1GB |
Storage | Western Digital Caviar Black WD1001FALS 1TB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s 3.5" |
Display(s) | 22" Insignia NS-L22Q-10A 720p LCD HDTV (Supports up to 1080p @ 60Hz output) |
Case | Cooler Master Elite 430 |
Power Supply | Antec EarthWatts EA650 650W Continuous Power 80+ Certified |
Software | Windows 7 Professional SP1 x64 |
MSI, HIS, or Sapphire for AMD cards. EVGA or Sparkle for nVidia cards. You will not have cooling issues anymore!
Thanks Good advice. Years ago I had a Sparkle 7600GS and that thing pretty much fried itself to death (it was passive cooled). Looks like they've gotten their stuff together after all these years. It seriously put me off buying anything Sparkle-made after that card. Good to know some things change.
This makes my fourth XFX card in a row (9800GTX - which was hot too, then an HD 4890 - which was also very hot and eventually died, RMA'd the 4890 and got a 6850, which was pretty cool running actually; then onto this card). I thought they were a decent company. I liked them mostly because of their lifetime warranties, which I still think are fantastic. But with this experience, I think I'm done unless I hear from enough peeople that a specific card made by them has proven to be a good product all around, with good performance, features, and cooling. Time to try someone else. Perhaps even go (team) green again...