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8600 is the replacement for the 7900. I thought the 8600 was more expensive than the 7900, so I recommended the 7900. However, they are around the same price once I checked the interweb. It looks like a good card for the money.
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Really? My suitemate's pentium d setup was burning hot at a steady 50 C without any load...
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There are a couple revisions of the Pentium-D. The newest Smithfield revision is much much much better with heat and power that it's previous brothers. Also, there are a lot of factors in CPU heat: poor heatsink, old/crappy thermal paste, poor airflow inside the case, etc.
My recommendation on a new vid card is mixed, to say the least. A few benchmarks are showing that the 8800 series is going to suck with DirectX 10 games. Of course, the 8600 would then be
terrible for the new games coming up. Current games [DX9] should be fine on all counts. Unfortunately, nVidia doesn't have the 9xxx series coming until the beginning of next year, so it'd be a long stretch if you waited until then.
If you wanna play the games coming out this year, get the 8800GTS. (around $300) If you aren't gonna play them, get the 8600. But more than likely, you'll want to play new games.
Jam it back in, in the dark.
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