New GPU/s at last!!

[Wildman1255]

Hello everyone,

Its a while since I last posted on here as I have not been on the pc scene for what seems ages. Anyway, time to upgrade from 7900GTX Sli to (and this is the part were I need you people) 8800GT Sli or GTX 260 216. Does anyone have any ideas? Much appreciated.

Thanks in advance

 

[psychas]

wait for a month for 270/290 260/280 will drop in price

 

[gurusan]

Are you going to be keeping the FX60 setup?

 

[Wildman1255]

Are you going to be keeping the FX60 setup?

Nice one for the fast reply. I only upgraded ealry last year in prep for crysis, so no plans as of yet to upgrade everything else. I am also aware that I will be limited on RAM as the system will have to account for the RAM present on the GPU, is that correct?

 

[Greebo]

Nice one for the fast reply. I only upgraded ealry last year in prep for crysis, so no plans as of yet to upgrade everything else. I am also aware that I will be limited on RAM as the system will have to account for the RAM present on the GPU, is that correct?

In which case IMO you won't see much of a gain to a GTX260 or8800GT SLI as depending on the res you game, your cpu will bottleneck you.

 

[HighlandeR]

Totaly sux when your cpus already out of date but tis the way technology works

 

[gurusan]

if you are staying withthe FX60 system then 8800GTs in SLI would be good if you game at higher resolutions.

Otherwise just a single 8800GT or 8800GTS 512mb will be enough

 

[pastymuncher]

Surely a dualcore FX-60 (2.6ghz stock) is'nt going to bottleneck that much. Being a FX cpu it should clock a bit as well. I know it's socket 939 but it still a half decent cpu. Is'nt it?

 

[BuToNz]

I dont see it being a major bottleneck, that given tho id just opt for a 9600GT and leave it be.

 

[Greebo]

Surely a dualcore FX-60 (2.6ghz stock) is'nt going to bottleneck that much. Being a FX cpu it should clock a bit as well. I know it's socket 939 but it still a half decent cpu. Is'nt it?

Hell with my 8800GTS G92 512mb my framerate went from 29 fps to 41 fps (41%) going from a 4200+ x2 at 3Ghz to a q6600 at 3.4Ghz so it will cripple a GTX260 (faster than a 8800GTS) even more.

Such is life but true. So unless the OP plans to upgrade the rest of his system soon, he might as well sell his 7900's and get a 2nd hand 8800GTS G92 or a 4850.

Still not sure that will be much of an upgrade tbh.

 

[postmanfw]

+1

Went from an opty at 2.9GHz to the E8500 and saw an in game increase of about 20-30%.

3dmark 05&06 was more like 50% but that means nothing really.

Previous upgrade was from a 7950GT to the 8800GTS and definately saw a nice increase there.

 

[Laser402]

wait for a month for 270/290 260/280 will drop in price

Im looking to buy a GTX260 216 soon, any ideas when the 270/90's will be released?

Infact will it push the price of the GTX216 down by any substantial amount?

Just need alittle advise currently as everything seems to be getting more expensive! Q6600 now £150 Will this change anytime soon?

 

[hernaldo]

Nice one for the fast reply. I only upgraded ealry last year in prep for crysis, so no plans as of yet to upgrade everything else. I am also aware that I will be limited on RAM as the system will have to account for the RAM present on the GPU, is that correct?

Pop goes the bubble!

FX60 is well past its sell by date, overclocked or otherwise!

No point getting any "this gen" GPU taking your CPU into account.

You could do a complete upgrade cpu\mobo\ram for the price of GTX280 (well maybe a tiny bit over).

Q6600\4GB RAM\P35 mobo...

About £250 ish...

Would prolly bring you more benfit than a GTX280 would....I suspect that if you did go for a GTX280 or whatever, you'd have some very nice "high" frame rates....But you'd have some awful "low" frame rates too....= not fun gaming.

 

[Rimsy]

indeed.. if you got your FX early last year then that makes it knocking on 2 years old... which is a great innings for a pc but dont expect to be able to play the latest titles "the way god intended" unless you go for a complete upgrade.
That being said - 2x 8800GT's would probalby be best with what you have.