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Shopping for a new PC
I used the following articles for reference:
- Power Consumption of Contemporary Graphics Accelerators: Spring 2010 (XBit labs)
- Tuning Cool-n-Quiet (Tom's Hardware)
- Athlon II X3 435 (Tom's Hardware)
- Radeon HD 5770 and 5750 (Tom's Hardware)
- AMD 890GX Unveiled (Tom's Hardware)
- Seven AMD 785G-based Motherboards (Tom's Hardware)
- Athlon II Or Phenom II: Does Your CPU Need L3 Cache? (Tom's Hardware)
- AMD Athlon II X4 620 (Tom's Hardware)
- Undervolting Your Phenom II and Core 2 Processors (Tom's Hardware)
- AMD 785G: The Venerable 780G, Evolved (Tom's Hardware)
- AMD's 785G Chipset - Revolutionary or Evolutionary? (Anandtech)
- AMD's 890GX Chipset - Same Graphics, Better Southbridge (Anandtech)
- AMD Athlon II X4 620 & 630 (Anandtech)
- AMD's New Year Refresh: Athlon II X4 635, Phenom II X2 555, Athlon II X2 255 & Athlon II X3 440 (Anandtech)
- AMD's Athlon II X3 435 & New Energy Efficient CPUs: Killing Intel Below $90 (Anandtech)
- AMD’s Radeon HD 5770 & 5750: DirectX 11 for the Mainstream Crowd (Anandtech)
I went with AMD for both CPU and GPU. (Could you tell?) Specifically, an Athlon II X4 635 (2.9GHz), and an HD 5770.