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[battletoad]

Why the sigh? Comparing a one, maybe two month delay to Duke Nuken is simply absurd. You are blowing this out of proportion. Currently the chips are working, but they are just not at the levels AMD want them to be. And its not like any other company in the tech industry has never suffered delays or other issues, like Sandy Bridge that needed a full recall on all motherboards, or Nvidia that does paper launches to 'make' deadlines, etc etc

It was to be released in 2008 already. Whenever the release date nears, there's another delay.

I've heard that there are yield issues at GF, so thats the reason for the delay (plus the adding of quad channel as well) => apparent "faulty B0 stepping".

And more speculation.

either way, can't wait for the new chips to arrive!

 

[Gnome]

The boards definitly looks good.
I was also looking at the Asus P8P67 PRO as per the other thread.

Would you guys say the Corsair CX600W is worth it?

Overkill for your system specifications by far. Best PSU efficiency is commonly achieved at between 50-65% with PSUs generally being the least efficient at low loads (~25% and lower).

Unless you want to go for dual GPU get the Corsair CX500W or a 500W PSU max, IMHO.

Even with a 500W PSU the PSU is going to be sitting at 30% and lower load most of the time.

 

[tjiPPi]

Overkill for your system specifications by far. Best PSU efficiency is commonly achieved at between 50-65% with PSUs generally being the least efficient at low loads (~25% and lower).

Unless you want to go for dual GPU get the Corsair CX500W or a 500W PSU max, IMHO.

Even with a 500W PSU the PSU is going to be sitting at 30% and lower load most of the time.

Ah, thanks for the info. I never thought about it that way.