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eamo
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Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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http://www.silentpcreview.com/ is good reading for those wanting quiet and low-power PC's.....
.....But I think the AMD 980G set-up looks good for what you want. The latest reviews on AMD CPU's would seem to suggest that they are finally getting back into the game with Intel............I hope so. Better for us all if they do. |
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hanguker
Joined: 16 Mar 2005
Location: Korea
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:01 pm Post subject: |
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I have a feeling that onboard graphics might slow down my Vista experience a lot?
Thanks, Hanguker... but that's from 2006. Sad
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Well...you didn't say that you wanted to do blu-ray before. 
A 7300 will do yah for aero, but you need an 8600gt for blu-ray. |
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agoodmouse
Joined: 20 Dec 2007
Location: Anyang
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 9:31 pm Post subject: |
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| I wish the Rolls Royce company made computers. |
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eamo
Joined: 08 Mar 2003
Location: Shepherd's Bush, 1964.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 10:47 pm Post subject: |
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| hanguker wrote: |
| bassexpander wrote: |
I have a feeling that onboard graphics might slow down my Vista experience a lot?
Thanks, Hanguker... but that's from 2006. Sad
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Well...you didn't say that you wanted to do blu-ray before.
A 7300 will do yah for aero, but you need an 8600gt for blu-ray. |
I'd say the HD4670 has the perfect balance of performance and low-wattage. Cheap too. 3w at idle!!!
Gaming: Please check out the gaming-oriented reviews at X-bit Labs, The Guru of 3D, NeoSeeker, and HardwareCanucks. The general consensus is that the HD 4670 is the fastest budget graphics card released in some time, easily defeating nVidia's 9500GT and the previous generation ATI HD 3850, and at times challenging the more expensive nVidia 9600GT. It makes most games playable at 1680x1050 or 1600x1200, though excels at lower resolutions.
Video Playback: Video playback was very good. The decoding hardware has not changed from the previous HD 4xxx series cards.
Cooling: The stock cooler was effective, but really only quiet when idle. The fan has lousy acoustic properties that become more apparent as the fan speeds up. At full load the noise it generates is too poor to be considered for a silent PC, though this may depend on how high you set the volume of your speakers during gameplay. As the GPU does not run very hot, almost any quiet third party heatsink can be used to to cool the HD 4670 GPU sufficiently.
Power Consumption: By our estimates, the HD 4670 requires approximately 3W when idle and up to 40W when stressed to the limit. The idle figure is extremely impressive � 3W is just a bit more than adding an extra idle optical drive. 40W on load is not much either � the power supply inside even a brand name computer should be enough to accomodate the HD 4670.
Overall, the HD 4670 is a great budget level graphics card. It performs surprisingly well in gamings, offers good high definition playback, and its power efficiency is second to none. The fan on the cooler is quite poor at load, though at least it is inconspicous when idle, and easily swapped for a silent cooler like the Arctic Cooling Accelero S2. The sub-$100 price for most iterations of the HD4670 is quite good for the performance. If space is an issue, the HD 4670's small footprint cannot be challenged.
http://www.silentpcreview.com/article873-page6.html |
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bassexpander
Joined: 13 Sep 2007
Location: Someplace you'd rather be.
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| Posted: Mon Feb 09, 2009 11:50 pm Post subject: |
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| hanguker wrote: |
| bassexpander wrote: |
I have a feeling that onboard graphics might slow down my Vista experience a lot?
Thanks, Hanguker... but that's from 2006. Sad
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Well...you didn't say that you wanted to do blu-ray before.
A 7300 will do yah for aero, but you need an 8600gt for blu-ray. |
Yeah, but it looks like that AMD mainboard noted above will work out. I can always throw in a better GPU card later.
Interesting the power specs on that AMD HD GPU card. I had read on a couple of sites that the AMD cards were far more power hungry than NVIDIA boards. Guess it was old info. |
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