Graphics Card

[BLindsay]

Originally Posted by saljr

New HTPC..... I'm trying to build a quiet/fanless super efficient.
AMD Athlon II X4 610e 45w
Asus 890FX or 890GX micro-atx
Asus HD5550 1GB 128-bit DDR5/HD5570 1GB 128-bit DDR5
G.SKILL ECO Series 4GB DDR3 1333
SSD
500w 80 plus Gold

neat article on building a real efficient PC

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/...e-pc,2551.html

[Offender_Mullet]

Originally Posted by saljr

New HTPC..... I'm trying to build a quiet/fanless super efficient.
AMD Athlon II X4 610e 45w
Asus 890FX or 890GX micro-atx
Asus HD5550 1GB 128-bit DDR5/HD5570 1GB 128-bit DDR5
G.SKILL ECO Series 4GB DDR3 1333
SSD
500w 80 plus Gold

Good choices. Get an 890FX mobo. I never believed in silent (fanless) builds, as you need sufficient cooling all-around. The ATI stock fan/heatsinks for the cpu are known to be loud, but since you're not filling your case with other fans it should be fine.

I have this (it's HUGE) lol but it would be overkill for your setup if you don't plan to overclock.

[jhonkevin]

In the current market there are so many graphics card brand are available.

1)Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTS 512MB
2)ATI Radeon HD 5870
3)ATI Radeon HD 4870
4)Sapphire ATi Radeon HD 3870 X2
5)XFX GeForce 8800
6)MSI RX2600XT-T2D512EZ

So, You can choose Graphics card as your budget. This all graphics card are support your pc.

ATI graphics card users always face problems or if u if u have the opportunity to buy a new GPU NVIDIA GeForce XFX It's amazing all the updated drivers available in the official Nvidia site, you are getting memory from 128MB graphics card thinking about going for - and the latest games with amazing graphics performance 1 GB .....! That's my opinion because I am Nvidia users, but equally very good.

[Offender_Mullet]

^^^^^ Correction, people who use their cards in Crossire configuration have more problems than single card users. Same goes for SLI Nvidia users.

[BLindsay]

Originally Posted by Offender_Mullet

^^^^^ Correction, people who use their cards in Crossire configuration have more problems than single card users. Same goes for SLI Nvidia users.

very true, but they have gotten a lot better recently.

Also sometimes they are needed. 3 monitor gaming on nvidia requires SLI. ATI can do it on 1 card but the gpu power required for something like 5760x1080 really needs two cards to run at decent fps.

[Offender_Mullet]

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[DarknessBDJM]

ATI's video decoders seem to be consistently better, UVD 3 just came out with the 6000 series cards. 3-D performance is usually where things are more competitive.

[supersix4]

Originally Posted by Offender_Mullet

^^^^^ Correction, people who use their cards in Crossire configuration have more problems than single card users. Same goes for SLI Nvidia users.

I can vouch for that although I had way less problems then I did with my first crossfire attempt with the 5770 even though I spent about 3 hours with it. Such a shame to.

Hopefully they fix it because the 5770 was my first ati card and I was pretty impressed with it besides from the crossfire let down.