What does that have to do with buying a graphics card? Anyway, you probably don't need the VX450; I think the CX400 should be enough. And honestly, for the price of a VX450, you could probably just grab a 520W Seasonica instead.
If you've got the budget for the 5850, I'd say go for it. Just make sure your power supply can actually handle it. The GTX 1060 is a solid card and it even beats the 5850 in certain benchmarks, but the 5850 still holds the edge overall.
Yeah, honestly, the worst part is that whether you end up paying extra or not just depends on whatever mood the customs officer happens to be in that day. Prices aren't quite so high here anymore that it's always a better deal to order from overseas. Total nonsense. 😁
Casey Long2 makes a fair point. After all that trouble, we might just find out that $1 over there ends up being $2 here.
Morgan Moore37 said:It works like this: $1 plus customs, sales tax, margin, and sales tax, because tech gear from America doesn't get the same discounts as stuff coming from the UN.
Give me a break... 🤣 Sales tax is just tax. What kind of discount from the UN? There isn't any discount; it's just easier and cheaper to ship things from Europe to us than it is to ship them all the way from America.
ASUS offers two Typhoon models, the first, and the second. You won't find the GTX 1060 from EVGA or NVIDIA in our local stores. Our importers tell us 😁
Regarding the pricing, importing isn't free. I guess it’s a bit unrealistic to expect prices to be identical when a graphics card has to travel thousands of miles just to hit our shelves. There really isn't any component here that's cheaper than what you'd find across the ocean. Honestly, the price seems pretty reasonable.
The Nvidia GTX 460 is definitely the better choice here since there's no real overlap, but I'm torn on which one to grab. I'd personally lean toward the 1GB version over the 768MB one.
Jason Lopez2, it seems like you don't really know what you're talking about. People tend to get overly excited about "bad" products too often. I guess it's better to just let us decide which GPU is worth buying.
@William Lewis/">@@William Lewis Yeah, the 4850 will be an excellent choice for future gaming at that resolution; you should be able to run everything without any issues.👍
Why are you worrying so much about the power supply? Bryan Evans77 explained pretty clearly that the Fortress unit will handle the Radeon HD 4890 just fine. And if you really want to buy a new PSU, an EVGA CX series would be plenty, which is $133. It's true, the 5770 is a lot more efficient, but do you really want to play "some" game at native resolution with a freezing cold PC and 20fps, or with a slightly warmer PC and 35fps (slightly warmer because the Cooler Master really does run hot)? 😁
EDIT: Commenting on stormywolf39's link.
Radeon HD 4890 2D ~260 W Idle ~370 W Furmark ~410 W
We can see that under full load, a configuration with a high-end motherboard, Intel Core i7 125W processor, and a 4890 pulls just north of 400W from the wall. Keep in mind that you don't have an i7, you have a Core 2 Duo, and this is the draw from the wall (take off another 15% or so), so what do we get? That a 400W Fortress unit will actually be more than enough for your setup with the 4890, since your actual consumption will stay well below 400W ^^
Even though the 5770 has fancy DX11 support, it'll be useless once you can't even run games effectively in a year or two due to performance issues. 4890 way to go 👍
Just because the box says you need at least 500W doesn't mean your power supply actually needs that much capacity, and I think 400 high-quality watts should be plenty. Manufacturers don't assume everyone is running an Enermax in their rig; a huge number of people are using MSI components instead. Since you're running a large monitor, you'll need a decent amount of clean power to drive that resolution. The 4890 provides more of that than the 5770 does, so if I were you, I'd go with the 4890. I don't believe the processor will be an issue. Overclocking should be fine, especially since this test suggests most games don't really benefit from having three or more cores, meaning two should be perfectly sufficient.
Signature. A few previous generations can handle HD movies just fine, supporting resolutions up to 2560x1600. I’d say just grab whichever one is cheaper and more power-efficient; there isn't really much to overthink here.
I don't own that specific monitor, but I am using an Acer myself. I don't have any complaints about mine, though I don't really have anything to compare it to. It isn't a Samsung, a Philips, or a Dell, but I've never actually worked on those brands before, so I can't say much more than this. You won't end up with a subpar product, but you aren't exactly getting the gold standard of LCDs either.
Nothing really makes sense here, other than some kind of "error."
For a while, both my games and dxdiag were reporting that I had 4 GB of memory on my 4890. Now, they're showing me that I only have 2425 MB 🤣, even though I know this card has 1 GB of memory—it always has. Everest says something else entirely, which is actually the truth.
There must have been some sort of mix-up. If the BIOS, CPU-Z, and Everest are all reporting correctly, I don't think there's a real problem, aside from the obvious fact that there's some hardware confusion happening. 😁
By "Windows shows," do you mean if you right click on My Computer and check Properties?
Why does that even matter to you, especially since there are plenty of other, better programs available to validate your processor frequency? It might also help if you could let us know which CPU you're actually using.
Yeah, that’s the one. I use the exact same model and actually tested it yesterday. Regarding the key rollover, if I hit 6 keys at once (I tried q, w, e, a, s, d), the computer just spams those letters in a loop. Here is an example of what happens when I hold them down for a second or two.
The keyboard includes multimedia keys for music control, a nice volume wheel, and dedicated buttons for launching various apps—which, I guess, you can actually program yourself to do whatever you want.
I suppose anything better or more expensive than this isn't really necessary.
Regarding what you mentioned about the keys, I doubt it's actually a "glitch"; it's more likely a built-in limit. There’s probably a reason why you can't press more than three keys at once. The explanation is... complicated, and I don't really feel like getting too deep into it. 😁You might want to check this for some more detailed info on that limitation.