Squilliam on 27 September 2008
One significant factor a lot of people dont seem to take into account when they upgrade their computers is this. When you put an 8800gt or an HD 4850 you're increasing the total power usage and heat output of your system by 115-130W and thats 10-30W more than a stock 65 nm extreme edition quad core CPU at 3ghz.
So essentially if you're more than doubling the heat output of your system without introducing any extra cooling when you take into account the fact that most people use more reasonable 65w Dual core CPUs or you could say that you just stuck a Falcon Xbox 360 inside your computer and asked it to cool itself and the Xbox 360 at the same time.
Tease.
