i5 upgrade with sli ?

PawCat

PawCat

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My current mobo is giving up the ghost so thinking of upgrading but would appreciate any advice on the following

Current Rig

Q9450 @ 3.2
P5K-e wifi
4 gig dominator ram
2x 150gig raptors ( raid )
1x 750 gig wd
1X 500 gig wd
Creative X-FI Elite
Gigabyte GTX460 OC


looking at going i5 route with SLI setup


Asus P7P55D-E PRO

Intel i5 760 ( looking for up to 4ghz OC )

4GB (2x2GB) Corsair XMS3 DDR3 PC3-12800 (1600),CAS 9-9-9-24,
or
4GB (2x2GB) Corsair Dominator DDR3 PC3-12800(1600), CAS 7-8-7-20

AKASA AK-CCX-4002HP Venom Ultra or better if recommended

GTX460 X2 SLI

Would this set up give me a noticable increase over my current one.

I like the Asus boards but don't know if the pro offers any advantage that i would need.
Also would the lower latency on the ram really make much difference

Pc is for games , general office stuff and as my music DAW ( acid Pro 7 + many many VST's )

I realise that using SLI on P55 means no UBS3 or sata 6 but as i dont have such items i dont think it's a problem for me. But i believe 2 cards means it drops to 8x8 BUT does this have any really impact on performance.

Many thanks for any help/advice


OR should i just go this route

CPU: Intel Core i7 930
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
RAM: Corsair XMS3 (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel
Cooler: Akasa Venom CPU Cooler
 
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corsair is awesome, dont think anyone on these forums will argue with that.

the XMS3 is useful due to its low height, so if you have a fat cooler installed it might clear.
 
Thanks stulid

Do you think the latency at this level is much of an issue. Is it worth paying extra for cas 7 .

Also if running the asus P7P55D-E PRO in sli, will dropping to 8x8 be an issue .
I mean would spending extra on something like an ASUS Maximus III Extreme to get 16x16 be worth the money in relation to performance.
 
Corsair are good (although you pay for the name), so are G.Skill (on offer this week) and OCZ (as long as it is not the gold series) - I don't know abut Kingston.
 
PawCat said:
Thanks stulid


Also if running the asus P7P55D-E PRO in sli, will dropping to 8x8 be an issue .
I mean would spending extra on something like an ASUS Maximus III Extreme to get 16x16 be worth the money in relation to performance.
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seen results before comparing the difference, its minimal and is not worth spending more cash just to ensure 16/16
 
EDIT: Holy poop I read wrong you already have one 460 and so I definitely agree go for the SLI path, but the part below about the 460 SLI getting really hot still stands.


Having just built an i5 build I found making a build with SLI support costs around 30 quid more in the motherboard department.

So then I don't see why you would buy SLI straight away I would rather get a GTX 480,

I know people say these run hot but if you look at people who have GTX 460s in SLI the top card gets up to 100 C because the bottom card gets all the air circulation defeating the argument that the 470/480 cards get really hot.

If it were me I would get a single card not SLI, the way I see it is get the best powerful card you can get, then SLI it when it's not good enough. Which in the case of the GTX 480 is a long long time away.

Whereas once you get SLI GTX460 that is your limit because you can't tri-sli them.

But it's your money :P
 
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Thanks Mason,
i have an antec 1200 case with a lot of air flow and my GTX460 is the Gigabyte OC version which runs very cool. But i was concerned about heat being an issue with the 2 cards so close. I have an x-fi elite pro card which as needs a PCI slot

I was looking at this but am worried about where i slot in the x-fi card with 2 gtx 460 sli

CPU: Intel Core i7 930
Motherboard: Asus P6X58D-E (Socket 1366) DDR3 Motherboard
RAM: Corsair XMS3 (3x2GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Triple Channel
Cooler: Akasa Venom CPU Cooler
 
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