single or SLI for 24" monitor?

wesley · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:16

hi guys

Am wondered if SLI is suitable for 24" monitor (1920x1200)

i want good fps from latest games

thanks

krisbutler · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:17

what gfx cards ? 1 gtx will eat at that rez

krisbutler · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:18

also depends on your cpu aparently resolution is down to the cpu

wesley · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:25

sorry

krisbutler · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:29

the gtx is an awsome card get a sli board for future games maybe they will push the gtx to far and u can get another one in sli but as for current games that card is awesome

krisbutler · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:30

btw very nice build you will be happy

wesley · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:34

thanks, which SLI board i should get?

krisbutler · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:35

budget?

wesley · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:37

£2k max

plan to overclock the cpu to 3ghz, not sure if the RAM will be ok

krisbutler · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:39

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-208-AS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=205

krisbutler · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:40

im using this board and its brilliant

Chimerical · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:41

If you want good Ram, get PC2-8500 OCZ or Corsair stuff. Do you really need to spend all that money on two Raptor HDD's?

gurusan · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:42

wesley said:
thanks, which SLI board i should get?

If I were you I'd get a cheap NF650i chipset board to hold out until nforce 7-series comes out.

Of course playing the waiting game has its downsides as well...

krisbutler · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:42

Chimerical said:
If you want good Ram, get PC2-8500 OCZ or Corsair stuff. Do you really need to spend all that money on two Raptor HDD's?

the man has a point

ballistix ram is very good to

wesley · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:43

Chimerical said:
If you want good Ram, get PC2-8500 OCZ or Corsair stuff. Do you really need to spend all that money on two Raptor HDD's?

yes i like very fast hard drives, extract unrars all the time, video editing etc

gurusan · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:43

Chimerical said:
If you want good Ram, get PC2-8500 OCZ or Corsair stuff. Do you really need to spend all that money on two Raptor HDD's?

Or some ballistix 5300 to save some money....and I agree on the Raptors...might as well do a 750gb x2 RAID 0 setup for that kind of money

RaiderX · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:44

gurusan said:
If I were you I'd get a cheap NF650i chipset board to hold out until nforce 7-series comes out.

Of course playing the waiting game has its downsides as well...

the 650i is a waste of money for SLI GTX as it only runs dual 8x in SLI

gurusan · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:47

RaiderX said:
the 650i is a waste of money for SLI GTX as it only runs dual 8x in SLI

I suggested it as something to hold him over til 7-series.

Also, take a look here:

http://www.techspot.com/review/45-nvidia-nforce-650i-sli-vs-680i-sli/page4.html

Looks like it's the 680i that's the waste of money.

V|per · 29 Sep 2007 at 10:58

Just a heads up, that dvd burner is exceedingly noisy.

Very nice build though!

krisbutler · 29 Sep 2007 at 11:08

everything is a waste of money lol every time u upgrade a new part comes out basicly that system will last u a very long time :0