The buildsilentpc.com article is ludicrously bad.

Most of their "recommended" hardware is held in disdain by silent computing enthusiasts.

Zalman hasn't made a good quiet CPU cooler in years, and the recommendation of a Zalman GV1000 is ridiculous, when an Arctic Cooling S2 outperforms it at less than half the price.

At least their case and PSU recommendations aren't bad.

Everything else is bunk, though -_-.

Its surprising to see the 4870 1GB do so well in bit-tech's review of the 4850 1GB. It comes second to the 4870 X2 in alot of the tests, and beats the 4850 X2 in several others. I recall not too long ago that 512MB was the sweet spot, looks like 1GB has finally taken its place.

The MadShrimps article makes me wonder what ever happened to TR's PSU test rig.

STEAM CLIENT FOR LINUX? That is awesome! I just spent 3 hours yesterday getting Steam to work properly under the new Wine beta. I can start up CS:S, but ATI Powerplay isn't working for my 4870 in OpenSuSE with the new 8.11s and the GPU overheats in under a minute.

If Valve ports enough games successfully to Linux then this could really be a solid step into pure Linux gaming solutions. ATI and Nvidia Linux drivers are well up to the task (especially if they get some fan speed control soon).