My near future rig...

OPG-1987 said:
The graphics card nice?

Is the motherboard (Asus P5N-E) SLi compatible? I could throw 2 8800 GTS's on it yeh?


Paying out for two GTS is a very big waste.

id rather 1 top quality GTX or even a G90 GTS then two G80 GS.

There are no current games which support SLI in dx 10 at the moment and they wont be optimized properly for at least another 6 months. Maybe a year! (my personal estimates). In 6 months to a year your GTS will be worth probly 50 quid and there will be a lot more new ranges.
 
8igdave said:
Paying out for two GTS is a very big waste.

id rather 1 top quality GTX or even a G90 GTS then two G80 GS.

There are no current games which support SLI in dx 10 at the moment and they wont be optimized properly for at least another 6 months. Maybe a year! (my personal estimates). In 6 months to a year your GTS will be worth probly 50 quid and there will be a lot more new ranges.

I'm not getting 2 GTS. I just want to know that the board can handle it in the future. So in about 1/2 years time I can just throw another one in and boost my graphics performance.

I may wait and get a G90 card tho. Then have the possibility of having 2 of those in the future.

When are the G90 cards out?
 
OPG-1987 said:
I'm not getting 2 GTS. I just want to know that the board can handle it in the future. So in about 1/2 years time I can just throw another one in and boost my graphics performance.

I may wait and get a G90 card tho. Then have the possibility of having 2 of those in the future.

When are the G90 cards out?

Yes that board you picked out does support SLI.

Anyway, trust me in 1/2 years buying another GTS to put in SLI wont be much of a boost in performance. The GTS will be uber old tech. :p
 
OPG-1987 said:
So to get a G90 card (for my system to be future proof) I need to wait 'til late August/November?

Just buy for now. No one has any benchies of these new cards yet so we dont know how good they will be.

Their is no such thing of future proof in the computer industry.
 
stickroad said:
Just buy for now. No one has any benchies of these new cards yet so we dont know how good they will be.

Their is no such thing of future proof in the computer industry.


The idea is that they will bring down all the prices.


And if you want an SLI board so that you can do SLI a year down the line with differnt cards. You may well need to replace it anyway due to cards needing differnt boards or processors etc. Also, a year down the line DDR3 is likely to become more commen when it comes out andtherefore if you buy a SLI board now. You wont be able to use DDR3 (i beleive its only P35 that can?)
 
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