Radeon HD 5970 to cost 600$

[nightsurge]

Soleron said:

nightsurge said:
That makes sense. It's 2x 5870's basically, right? Man, why can't they make it so I can run games just off of the GPU?! My system is getting pretty old on the CPU (a 3.22GHz Athlon X2 5400+),

Could you put an Athlon II in there? An X2 245 (2.9GHz) for $66? You could get it to 3.5GHz or so stable.

I dunno.  I guess when I look at benchmarks all the Athlon II's are only a few FPS higher than the X2 5400+ I have.  I have considered getting a Phenom II X2, which seems to be better than the Athlon II since they have that L3 cache.  My board is thankfullly AM3 compatible if I do a BIOS flash, so any Phenom II would work.  I've been considering going quad, but at the same time I only have a 500W power supply, which is running a 250W GPU, a 65W CPU, and like 4 fans, 2 hard drives, and a DVD drive.  So going to a Phenom II X4 with 125W may be too much

I really need to get a volt meter and see how many watts I'm pulling with this system at full load.  Maybe I could spare another 60W, maybe not.