Go SLI or upgrade CPU?

You can't do SLI on your mobo anyway and your psu would probably blow up as well. Atrix are not known for quality psu's.
 
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I just bought a new monitor from oc thats 1080p, and assassins creed 2 drops to 30fps in some parts. was looking forward to the new one coming out and didnt want the lagging to spoil it
 
From what I read the Assassins Creed 2 was a bit poorly ported and doesn't use Quad-core all that well:
http://forums.ubi.com/eve/forums/a/tpc/f/4721051016/m/1131008938

I don't think the problem lies with your GTX470...but if you want to confirm, check your GPU usage during the scene which it drop to 30fps (you can use MSI Afterburner for displaying GPU usage on sceen while in game). If the GPU usage is not at (close to) 100%, then it is most likely a CPU bottleneck.

But personally, I wouldn't bother upgrading because of one poorly ported game (and 30fps is still smooth enough to play)...as for AC Brotherhood, you probably should finger-cross it port better than AC2.
 
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That doesn't sound right. Maybe there isn't enough power going through to your GPU. Does your PSU have a 6+2 pin connector or a 8pin ?

A GTX 470 and Q6600 should eat Assassin's Creed alive
 
when i used to run it at 1650 it was smooth as a babies backside, with this new resolution though, even with no aa, it suffers from major slowdown when you compare it to the likes of just cause 2, which runs sweet as a nut.

thought it might be cpu because at the beginning it says runs on I7 (when the nvidia how it was meant to be played) thing comes up
 
franco_22 said:
That doesn't sound right. Maybe there isn't enough power going through to your GPU. Does your PSU have a 6+2 pin connector or a 8pin ?

A GTX 470 and Q6600 should eat Assassin's Creed alive
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psu has two 6+2 pin connectors, I use both of them for the 470, but only the 6 pin, there are no 8 pin ports on the card
 
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