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leftyassassin wrote:Thanks everyone for the insight. It sounds like a 7850 will be no problem at all.
Just out of curiosity, though... what about a 7870? A 7950? A GTX 670? Would any of those be feasible?
clone wrote:Phildoe wrote:Should be alright, but I would never chance it. a 500w PSU can be had pretty cheap from the egg.
that is true but a quality 500 watt will cost triple that and in the end his Antec 400 watt is likely more than enough.
vargis14 wrote:I hope the 7870, although the 7850 is also a fine choice and they both overclock great. Overclocked i think the 7850 runs just as fast as the gtx580 at less then half the voltage. The 7870 overclocked beats it at half the the voltage along with 2gb of memory over the 580s 1.5gb.