cpu upgrade question

[chaotic_uk]

which way should i go for upgrading ? , i would like something that does not bottleneck my crossfired 5770's . my phenom II 720BE is just not got enough power/performance for my liking , but which way should i go ? . been looking at the fastest amd quad core , but that means upgrading my mobo also and my memory . not worked out how much i want to spend yet , yet again i do not want to spend a fortune either . it must last me a few years performance wise

 

[chaotic_uk]

what is your budget?
have you tried overclocking your 7200BE?
what MB adn RAM do you currently have?

1: not sure yet but some where around the £200 mark
2: yes it's running at 3.3ghz (fastest stable overclock)
3: biostar ta790gx 128m and Kingston HyperX 4GB (2x2GB) DDR2 8500C5

and the max my mobo supports is the phenom II 945

 

[chaotic_uk]

yes multi only and not tried anything else since it kept giving BSod's with the multi at x17 , and yes the crossfired 5770's are nice but they do not bench well in my system . one 5770 clocked at 900/1250 scores just over 9078 in vantage , but in crossfire they score only 11509 which seems poor to me for 2 5770 in crossfire . also they will not overclock in crossfire for some reason

 

[chaotic_uk]

so try and get some more out off my cpu ?

 

[chaotic_uk]

dual core ? its a tri core lol , anyways in the reviews i read before i got the seccond 5770 they were getting around 60% increase plus . but the were running the i7 965 and i7 975 overclocked , as for performance in games it seems fine if i do not use aa . when aa is turned on at x2 i get stuttering in farcry2 and stalker cs + a few others

 

[chaotic_uk]

which settings ? , do you use aa in game ?

edit : mind you i have had stutter in games with aa turned on with my old 3870x2 and my 4870 512 and now with my 5770's , so it must be something wrong with something else in my system

 

[chaotic_uk]

tried that but still the same , i have even replaced my psu but that made no differance

 

[chaotic_uk]

had to set the mem speeds my self cause on auto it kept setting them to run at 800mhz and not 1066 , mem timings 5-5-5-15 and left the rest on auto . what should the multi for the ht and nb be set at ? , atm it is set to x10

 

[chaotic_uk]

got it to 3.36 but it was not stable , so back to 3.3 . think i will go back to the old bios which seemed better to be honest , but that gave incorrect temps

 

[chaotic_uk]

no go on getting past 3.3ghz , and now thats not that stable when playing ra3 . think i will go full am3 of change to intel , this has to last me a good while but not cost the earth so am3 might be the cheapest way tbh

 

[chaotic_uk]

Hmmm you give up really easily!

lol , been trying for weeks to get higher than 3.3ghz

 

[chaotic_uk]

true but in stalker/cs and farcry2 if i turn on aa at 2x or more i get stutter/pauses , tried everything to get rid of it . even lowered the res but nothing worked , stange thing is i can run crysis warhead at 1680x1050 at gamer settings with 2x aa and it averages 40-50 fps . something has to be wrong with my system , could it be my os as it's the 32bit home basic version ? . tbh the mobo is not that good tbh

 

[chaotic_uk]

going to get some better case fans first , the one i got from ocuk a few moths ago has already making strange noises lol . no been overclocking a few years on and off , this is the newest setup i have had and not managed to get it running as i want it tbh . memory is at 1062 i think , soon as i go to raise the multi now than the fsb is overclocked i get weird colours on the task bar