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**Warsaw** · January 9th, 2009 10:45 PM

Originally Posted by 343guiltymc

Would any 9600 GT work with a low PSU? I don't use a slimline case so I don't think need to worry about size as much.

I'm not sure. I should think so, since they are all based on the same chip. The only things I can think of that might guzzle watts are fans and overclocking. Buy a reference-clocked card with passive cooling, and you can eliminate that problem.

**Huero** · January 9th, 2009 11:19 PM

QUESTION
Radeon 3840
what settings on average can it run Left4Dead

**Xetsuei** · January 9th, 2009 11:24 PM

Not familiar with Left4Dead. Since it runs on source and that graphics card is fairly good, I'd imagine you'd be able to run it on high pretty smoothly.

E: Wait, what? Do you mean the 3850? In that case yes I'm 99% sure you'd be able to run it on high smoothly.

**Huero** · January 9th, 2009 11:49 PM

fuck i meant 4830
apologies, i'm an idiot

**Jelly** · January 10th, 2009 04:42 AM

Originally Posted by huerosam

fuck i meant 4830
apologies, i'm an idiot

4830 is a 4850 with a few bits removed, it should run fine on max settings, looking at your processor.

**Huero** · January 10th, 2009 01:52 PM

Actually I'm building an entirely new computer :B
Case: Centurion 5 Cooler Master
HDD: Seagate 320 GB
Motherboard: MSI K9A2 Platinum
CPU: AMD Phenom X4 9850 Black Edition
RAM: 4 Gigs DDR2
Power Supply: OCZ Stealth X Stream 600w
Graphics Card: Asus EAH4830 512MB DDR3

also got vista 64bit and NOD32 antivirus

**343guiltymc** · January 10th, 2009 07:34 PM

Originally Posted by Warsaw

I'm not sure. I should think so, since they are all based on the same chip. The only things I can think of that might guzzle watts are fans and overclocking. Buy a reference-clocked card with passive cooling, and you can eliminate that problem.

By fans do you mean those cards with huge assed fans that take up two slots?

**Huero** · January 10th, 2009 10:11 PM

Ok, so we started building the computer, have some issues with the screws and eventually get the mboard in. We put in the CPU, everything's going relatively smooth so far (though all I've done so far is hold cables). Dad starts applying the thermal paste to the CPU, and here's the problem. He didn't apply a BB-sized amount of paste on, he applied like 8 BBs. I've looked at quite a few many guides, and they really aren't clear. I come to you with this question: What do we use to remove the paste off of the CPU? (and yes, its Arctic Silver)

Oh also the grey square on the bottom of the heatsink is the thermal pad right :E