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jakari

jakari

jakari

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Hi im upgrading my pc soon and i have a few question :)

at the moment i have:

Mobo: Asus k5n-sli
CPU: AMD x64 3700+
Gcard: Point Of View Gforce 8800GTX 320mb
Ram GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4

What im going to buy:

Mobo: Asus P5N-E SLi nForce 650 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 2.40GHz Guaranteed to run at 3.00GHZ (1333FSB) - Retail
Gcard: NOT SURE YET, QUESTION BELOW
Ram: Another GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 to make 4gb


My question is with the graphics card.

Should i get another 8800GTS and sli with the one i already have or should i buy: OcUK GeForce 9800 GT 512MB

also if i was to buy another 8800 would it have to be 320mb like my other one or could i get a 512mb one and still sli with my old one?

thanks
 
ati better than nvidia now? my last ati was a X1800 and it stopped working so i went over to nvidia and thought it was much better and i only have about £350
 
lool i dident ask any of this, all i was asking is what i should do with the graphics card

also iv used a Q6600 before and found it to be amazing
 
oki il change my mobo then :)

but i wanna stick with gforce. so would it be better to sli another 8800 or buy the 9800?
 
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lool i can get one on ebay...

but if i went over to ati again i would have no use for my 8800 and its still got lots of kick in the old dog yet :P id rather just add another to it
 
benjo said:
It'd be pointless to add another 320 GTS in my opinion, as others have said you'd be much better getting a 4850 or 4870. However if you must stick with nvidia, you can get 8800GTS 512's now pretty cheap, although not as fast as the current nvidias, it's faster then your current GTS.
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i wasn't gunna put another 320mb one on i was gunna add a 640mb one on.. also doesn't sli just combine the 2 cards into "one" ?
 
no i dont have two cards... i have one and will be adding what ever other gts i get to my old one

what is the point of sli?

from what i know sli takes 2 cards and gives the computer the impression you just have one "super" card

I.E. if i have a card with a clock speed of 500 and i add another card with 500 and sli both cards together it will give me a clock speed of 1000?
 
qwerty321 said:
That wouldnt work. you need two of the same cards,

And it doesnt just turn it into one. They are two seperate cards still, sli is a waste of time really the scaling is rubbish so you only get a 20% increase in performance. The only half decent sli chipset is the nforce 7 which is fairly expensive compared to the intel p35/p45.
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ohhh im in over my head here lol

so id have to have another 8800gts 320 to work with my old 8800gts 320? and i wouldent get double performance?
 
right ok, lets start from the top lol....

here is what il be getting...

Intel Core 2 Quad Pro Q6600 2.40GHz Guaranteed to run at 3.00GHZ (1333FSB) - Retail
- £122.19

GeIL 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-6400C4 800MHz (to add to my other 2gig) - £30.54

which leaves me with about £200

what is the best Mobo And Graphics card i can get with that?

seeing as sli seems to be crap :P
 
woo lol, il do that then....

now for the question, will it play crysis on full lol....

i played it on a

q6600
4gig ddr2
gforce 8800GTX 512mb

and it played it almost on fullish lol with 1024x768 rez lol so hopfuly this will
 
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