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I don't know about that. I've seen a lot of benchmarks that show that DDR1 based cards and others with lower memory bandwidth tend to suffer on todays games. I would say that in today's environment that Bandwidth > MTexels, as far as relative importance is concerned.
A GPU only WB doesn't cool the ram, and even if you add ramsinks, there will not be sufficient airflow. Just something to consider... then again, most people don't see a significant increase in ram overclocking by adding ramsinks.
That's directly from the rebate form.
I'm assuming that if they don't pay attention, the rebate will go through, but if they pay attention to where the product was purchased from, that it won't work.
Edit: Actually, it looks like TD is a valid retailer...
If you part, please let me know! I'd like a lot of your system, but not all of it since I don't have a need for things like HD, case, etc. But mobo, CPU, PSU, and some more would probably be good to have!
BTW- they're good CPUs. I have one and it goes to 2.6 GHz at 1.65 V on XP-120. This is pretty typical. Good luck selling (if you stop calling it a ClawCASTLE). A pox upon you if you continue calling it the wrong thing!
ARGH! Its a Clawhammer!!! There's no such thing as a clawCASTLE! It's not a hybrid. There are other 512 L2 cache Clawhammers out there, no one calls those ClawCASTLES!!! I hate it when people call it a ClawCASTLE!!!