stable and fast. This is what vista should have been

given the price of boards and processors i recommend lga775 but a different cpu. Quad cores are very good but some applications are not coded for multi threading and the low clockspeed of the processor you have chosen will be a serious bottleneck. For some serious gaming get a c2d/c2q with at least 2.8ghz.

I found that my c2q caused some games to stutter at stock 2.4. Overclocked to 3.0ghz and the stuttering stopped, past 3ghz you will find it wont yield any significant performance improvement in framerate.

Unless you have driver problems get 64. Microsoft includes both disks anyway in the package so if you have a problem you can install 32bit.

i do cad work on my workstation (see signature) and sometimes on my laptop with an intel chipset, The intel integrated is slow when you try to rotate things. Since you want a cad laptop get one with at least an hd3650 or 9600gt. You should find they are very good (gaming is not bad either)

i had the sapphire 4850 with a stock zalman fan. Much quiter and cooler than the reference card

If i can render with an HD5770 and do physx with a 8800gts on crossfirex board you should have no trouble at all making it work with a gtx295. You won't be able to SLI but you can enable it as a physx card

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Its funny i love fanboys. they are funny. there is one on here who has like a complete AMD/ATI system and even has an AMD Pic. but he swears that Nvidia is wayy better than AMD. he talks Nvidia up like they are gods.

SLIisaownsystem

and u have an evga LE mobo with a 5870

Hey fanboy, Where are your DX11 cards? :PIantheone

DX11 is not now needed it comes next year of Nvidia. See my sig and remember my words.

Actually DIRT2 comes out at the first of december, and battleforge is already out. And we can also play the unigine "heaven" Dx11 demo with tessellation on and you have to wait for Q1 2010

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As single card is preatty bad.

Angry_Mushroom

the 4850 is an awesome card (i just upgraded from that), the 4850x2 is the bad one

it's actually a rebranded 9800gtx+

slightly faster than a 9800gtx

(btw the 2 cards on the link are the same, the faster one has been factory overclocked....i would get the cheaper one and overclock it myself, but if your dad is rubbish at computers like mine then i would get the factory overclocked one)

before you replace the cpu, replace the gpu, a 4830-4770 will be a massive improvement for you