Anyway, I'm getting my 4850 tomorrow, 2nd hand. It's a 2 month old unit that the owner doesn't want, I got it pretty darn cheap (Okay, not that cheap, but cheap enough). It's a Powercolor HD4850 PCS edition. What PCS means, I don't have a fockin' clue. Keep ya updated when I get home.

I'm currently at COMEX 2009 at Suntec Convention Hall. I've been here for about 2 hours and 45 mins, helping my sis look for some stuff. I'm dead tired, lugging around my laptop, and my neck hurts. It doesn't help that I'm hungry anyway. I've got a fat stack of fliers in my bag, and good luck to her; there's a lot of deals that she has to consider. Bwehehehehe.

I've decided on the graphics card I'm getting. It's a 4850/70, if my budget allows. The 4770 is way too expensive now, even if you could get it. Funny, eh? On a side note, the Lynnfield Core i5/i7 for LGA 1156 have been benched, and the results are surprising. The i5 750 is hot on the heels of the i7 920 for LGA1366. Sweet, though the X58 chipset is still better if you want to run multi-graphics set-up. The P55 chipset, or rather, the Lynnfield CPUs control the PCI-E bandwidth directly. They offer 16 lanes of PCI-E from the CPU to the graphics card. Obviously, in a 2-way SLI or CrossFire X setup they split into 8x/8x. Not suited for optimal graphics performance if you've got 2 bad-ass graphics cards. On the other hand, the X58 chipset has 36 lanes, so 3-way SLI or CrossFire X is possible. But, the P55 chipset is a 2-chip design, rather than X58's 3-chip design. P55 does away with the northbridge and southbridge and replaces them with a Platform Controller Hub. the PCH controls SATA, Audio, LAN, and provides an x4 PCI-E lane for peripherals. It should be cheaper to produce, and reduces the board complexity, but I dunno. You sacrifice quite a fair bit as compared to the X58, but that's just my opinion, anyway.

I'm tired, hungry and sleepy. I'll probably have to buka puasa outside, since it's too late to get home before then.