Vegetano1 Wrote:Did you play any new game/s yet>?

nice rack!! i don't liek Ati!! ;p

Tried Mass Effect with Max settings. Is running pretty well. Don't have any of the newer games, so can't try it out yet.

Assassinator Wrote:You should've probably went for a Radeon 5770 instead of the 4870, just to be more ready for the future (DX11), they cost about the same.

True. But they didn't have it at the shop and I wanted to pickup what was ready. Also the fact that its still some time before DX11 games actually become mainstream.

Assassinator Wrote:As for the motherboard, as long as it works, who cares?  I mean it doesn't effect your performance, unless you really needed some of the specific features of the better motherboards.


And the question that's going to be asked sooner or later... how much did it cost you?

I'm ok for the performance. Especially since I'm not messing around with the clock speed (seems decent enough as it is). That is the only one reason I would say a good motherboard is needed.

My main kill-joy factor here is that I can't use 1HDD, my creative graphics card, extra LAN card etc as there is simply no space and slots.

Still, for equivalent of $50, this is as best as it can get.