this sucks because it means that I could not buy my 5770 that soon.
so this afternoon I couldn't care much and went out with mum and dad as mum's heading to work. went to check my account balance again and IT IS STILL UNDER THE LEDGER BALANCE. argh! however, my mum offered me that I could use her money first.
and yay, this means that I can buy the graphic card today.
so my dad brought me to sim lim square and I went to get some price list - bell, pc themes and best prices. upon seeking out the prices I saw a few cheaper 5770s like sapphire's and HIS. oh, I wanted to get the MSI R5770 HAWK.
once I saw the cheaper ones, I went into a confused state. I was wondering which brand should I buy - sapphire, MSI or HIS. sapphire one is at $247, HIS is at $253 and MSI HAWK at $264. look at those weird increase in price.
so I tried to connect to wireless - which apparently many failed. I went up to 6th floor and stayed outside mediamart to use their wireless (thanks to adrian I have their wireless key). I checked the review on sapphire's and it seems that the fan noise is pretty high - and this ruled out the choice and left with MSI or HIS.
I went on to compare with this two brands. I was looking into the temperature and fan noise as my old 8800GT was such a prick, making so much HIGH FREQUENCY noise with 100% fan speed and the temps are still freaking high.
apparently after looking at the reviews hard enough, both of them seems to have the same temps and fan noise level. so I bought HIS in the end.
good enough, it seems that the temperature are even better than I expected. without OCing the load temps were at 67 degree celsius and idling at 46 degree celsius. with OC, the load temps can go up to 73 which causes artifact. =\
crysis warhead had a 20FPS improvements from previous settings used for 8800GT. with 2x AA, there's about 13FPS hit and that makes 7FPS improvement. should be good for now until 2 years later. lol.
and what happens after I bought my card is all posted in my private blog. heh heh heh.
oh here's some photos:
