I put it up against the GTX 480 (guess who wins…) as well as AMD’s fastest single GPU card, the Radeon HD 5870. I show idle and load temps so you’ll have some idea how hot this thing will run in your PC!

NVIDIA’s new GeForce GTX 580 doesn’t run that hot, but if you have the desire to remove the stock cooler and replace the thermal compound (or just remove it for fun) then I show you how.

I know not everyone is, but I was pretty impressed by the stepless fan control on this new graphics card.

http://ncix.com/products/?sku=55439&vpn=XONAR%5FXENSE&manufacture=ASUS

A Xonar series sound card with a built-in headphones amplifier as well as a special edition Sennheiser PC350 headset. What more could a gamer want?

http://ncix.com/search/?categoryid=0&q=ibis

Finally having a look at this bad boy. Yes, it’s 3.5″ of solid SSD goodness. This beast of an SSD achieves its performance by bypassing the SATA interface entirely.

http://www.ncix.com/search/?categoryid=0&q=my+book+live Western Digital’s latest member of the WD Live family of products brings great integration with the other members as well as rockin’ performance to the table.

http://ncix.com/search/?categoryid=0&q=msi+gtx+580 We’ve already got a revision to NVIDIA’s GF100 Fermi graphics card. The 580 is faster, cooler, and just generally better in every way!

http://www.ncix.com/products/?sku=56527 This beast is designed from the ground up for extreme overclocking. A fully custom PCB layout and cooler makes this the beefiest GTX 480 ever made.

XFX has become a fan favourite board partner for AMD pretty much since they first released their Radeon cards. Check out this latest “performance mainstream” card from XFX