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[Gorath Alpha]

I haven't tracked down any information on the mainboard in that PC, sorry.  I'd thought of the Dx11 thing after I answered, edited it in before I saw the question about it.  Right now, Microsoft and Sony are holding back on updating their game consoles and the game developers are going along with the lack of progress that entails.  The consoles are still at the Direct3d's Dx9 level, not even Dx10. 

Very little is being developed stricty for PCs, so Dx9 still rules, and the top end from three years ago can still hang in there, with today's better Mainline graphics, or close to it, at least (HD 3870, 8800GTX). 

Crytek will push the PC envelope, I imagine, with Crysis 2, but they are a rarity.  Dx10 will probably carry at least two years forward from now before any of the few PC-only game releases start really pushing Dx11. 

[samix132]

When i watch dx9vs10 i can't really see ANY difference on them. I don't think there will be dx11 only games in 4years or maybe 6years. I would get 4870 which Gorath here mentioned. It has bigger memory bandwith and it's drivers are good to go and It is optimised pretty good in majority of games. Only good thing 5770 has is it's low power need and lower temps.



Vista64bit

5770 1gb

4gb ddr2

C2q 9400 2.6ghz

[Chim3ra]

Oh okay, thanks again.

[Wynessa]

I noticed no one told you to check the size dimensions for a replacement PSU, this can be critical especially if you buy a new one only to find it doesn't fit. HP and other brand name companies tend to make their PSU areas really small making upgrading difficult.

[Gorath Alpha]

Well, I did visit the page where Best Buy displayed the unit, and it wasn't one of their extremely short, sawed off little mini-towers, nor was it one of their too-skinny "slimline" style cases, but your comment made me think of one thing I could have mentioned that is somewhat along the lines you have in mind, and that's the internal LENGTH allowance inside of the HP case for cards. The HD 4850s (I have one, myself) aren't "long" ones, but they are not "short", either.

I do not see any measuring device here where I am, and the access panel is off right now, so I could measure it, if the small tape measure was close by.