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Another key piece of the Jigsaw has dropped into place
Over the Past month or so I have found the fastest production chips for your home computer. The AMD Quad core Phenom 9xxx ssries and the Budget 3 core 8xxx series

A motherboard to Match their Performance
www.morecomputers.com/extra.asp?pn=M3N%2DH%2FHDMI from about 55 Pounds

And It can be run with a 550 watt PSU (and performance will be Poor) Really need a 1000+ watts to start the fireworks

Oh I forgot needs a Minimum GeForce 9xxx series Graphic card to Give adequate Graphics

Hold on a second, the 9xxx Cards are the Best!?

Maybe but Nvidia Have an ace up their Sleeve .In fact they have 2!

The other week they announced they had released an "all new" Graphics card range to Make the 8 and 9xxx cards look like toys and Boy, they were not Wrong! (I'd love to see a British benchmark test on these compared to the 9K series Flagship)
They have a modest Name Nvidia GeForce GTX 200 Series
and the 2 models (so far) are the GTX 280 OC & GTX 260 The 280 is on sale Now and the 260 Is following at the end of June

I'll let the Specs speak for themselves on the Links but these units are fatter and longer Like a video cassette case and you can squash only 3 on the 4 slot board and 2 on the 3 BUT....Why? Just 1 card is more than most average users need Ever ... The Facts are the GPU chip is almost a full fledged CPU with multi cores Clock speed 600 MHZ! DDR 3 RAM how about 896 MB Memory and 1 GB for the Top end model!
On 1 test in the States the Game Geeks complainfed about not getting the Frame rate on 1 game and the older board was better.But that was a prelaunch review and Nvida are adding some more tweak tools and tricks soon So if it's fast at the official Launch ? What will it motor like once the Basic Tweak updates have been added?
Full details here .Head to Head test against the 9800 series http://tinyurl.com/6kxhu3

www.pcworld.com/article/id,147112-c,graphicschips/article.html

And the UK Prices for the GTX280/260 ? Saying nothing bar look at this...http://tinyurl.com/5z8s98 and make a

face!

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