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New System Upgrade!!! Geforce 9800GX2

mgncdarkangel

mgncdarkangel

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Hi,

Im looking to upgrade my system for under £1000,

Now what i have planned is as follows:


Intel Core 2 Quad Q9450, Yorkfield Core, S775, 2.66 GHz, 1333MHz, 12MB L2 Cache, Retail
£218

Gigabyte GA-X38-DQ6, iX38 Express, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 1066/667/800, SATA II, SATA RAID, ATX
£140

2x 2GB Corsair TwinX DDR2 XMS2 Dominator, PC2-8500 (1066), 240 Pin, Non-ECC Unbuffered, CAS 5
£90

1GB XFX 9800 GX2, PCI-E 2.0, Mem 2000MHz, GDDR3, GPU 600MHz, Stream 256, 2x DL DVI-I/HDMI
£400

Microsoft Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64Bit 1Pk OEM (DVD)
£105

Total
£953

it this okay?
 
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certainly a decent spec machine there!
take a read of My Post, Im looking to do exactly the same thing.

In a nut shell, im going to buy a slightly cheaper Quad core machine with 4gb of ram for £630 and purchase one of the next gen ATI 4000 range cards in June/July.
 
At the end of the day, ive allways had NVidia and ive loved them, but i thought id try the ATI HD2900.

Now dont get me wrong when it works its a good card but, it's the noisest card ive ever owned, it keeps crashing in vista 64, and ive had nothing but trouble.

I keep getting hardware failer with this card. It crashes the whole system quite often, resulting in the blue screen of death.

I also refer nvidia control panel, and dual monitor settings. I swore when i bought the HD2900 that if it was bad i wouldn't touch ATI again!

Also the card i had before the HD2900 was the GeForce 7950gx2 which i really liked, and worked really well.
 
mgncdarkangel said:
At the end of the day, ive allways had NVidia and ive loved them, but i thought id try the ATI HD2900.

Now dont get me wrong when it works its a good card but, it's the noisest card ive ever owned, it keeps crashing in vista 64, and ive had nothing but trouble.

I keep getting hardware failer with this card. It crashes the whole system quite often, resulting in the blue screen of death.

I also refer nvidia control panel, and dual monitor settings. I swore when i bought the HD2900 that if it was bad i wouldn't touch ATI again!

Also the card i had before the HD2900 was the GeForce 7950gx2 which i really liked, and worked really well.
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If you think the 2900xt is problamatic just wait till your running the 9800gx2 (effectively 8800gts sli)
 
mgncdarkangel said:
Also the card i had before the HD2900 was the GeForce 7950gx2 which i really liked, and worked really well.
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I completely agree with this statement.

My 7950GX2 was waaaay nicer to use and more stable than my 2900xt. Also, the 8800GTX before it was lovely too.

The new GX2 looks to be a good (if slightly pricy) bit of kit! :)

Nvidia's just always been better for me.

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ive said sod it, and just placed the order, for all of above. All be delivered on wednesday, except the CPU.... its on preorder, but thats no problem, ill keep using the E6600 in the mean time!
 
Im not a fan of over clocking, not until i get it watercooled. Also im a novice when it comes to overclocking, and i dont want to damage what i have!

I would do it, but i know very little.

I do have a zalman flower fan on the cpu!
 
The ASUS Maximus would have been a better board, except its DDR3 and it costs more. So i would need to spend more on the motherboard, and then a lot more on the memory! I had a £1000 budget, no more.
 
mgncdarkangel said:
The ASUS Maximus would have been a better board, except its DDR3 and it costs more. So i would need to spend more on the motherboard, and then a lot more on the memory! I had a £1000 budget, no more.
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I have the ASUS Maximus and its the DDR2 version.

Its also the best C2D mobo I have tested.:)
 
I have an Asus P5E, which is very close to the maximus, few differences not many, like dual LAN.
Very good board.
I cant fault the Gigabyte choice though, as I had a DS4 965 and it was a great board, superb clocker aswell.
 
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