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McDaniel

McDaniel

McDaniel

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Looking for an upgrade, as my pc is falling apart ... :(

Looking for new CPU/Mobo/GFX and maybe ram

Currently..

MSI K8N Neo2 Plat
AMD 3500+
PC4000 1GB Ballistix Ram (2x512mb)
580W Hyper PSU.

HDD are not an issue - current gfx card is a pci 5200 as my 6800gt blew up :(


Im hearing good things about conroe, so would like a conroe system that will be good enough to support Windows Vista and good for games - Graphics wise would like to run SLI/Crossfire eventually but not at this upgrade, so mobo should be able to support this for a later date - also the ram i have is good but would benefit from 2gb really as i game a lot but also multitask a lot.

What would you lot suggest.

No specific budget as such - jsut wanting an idea.
 
MB-020-DF DFI Infinity 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-020-DF)
£129.95 £129.95
CP-126-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-126-IN)
£129.95 £129.95
MY-014-GS G.Skill 2GB DDR2 NR PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBNR) (MY-014-GS)
£114.95 £114.95
GX-043-HT HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-043-HT)
£174.95 £174.95
Subtotal £549.80
VAT £96.22
Total £646.02

Something like that would be an excellent gaming set up
 
thinking of the 2,40GHz cpu myself. seems good though.

I forgot to mention ill be powering dual/tri maybe even quad monitors had bad experience with ATI's dual mon support - tend to prefer nVidia - or are they not the best these days?

Im a bit out of the hardware loop
 
Is it intended for gaming or some other workstation task? To run that many monitors I'd be looking at a workstation card or something along those lines from Matrox.
 
You're gonna need 2 cards to run 4 screens, I know someone on here does it with 2 ATi cards. (one low end would be fine and a decent card for gaming).

The reason I didnt choose nvidia was due to the lack of motherboard that support both conroe and SLi which you said you might want to get later on.
 
Raikiri said:
You're gonna need 2 cards to run 4 screens, I know someone on here does it with 2 ATi cards. (one low end would be fine and a decent card for gaming).

The reason I didnt choose nvidia was due to the lack of motherboard that support both conroe and SLi which you said you might want to get later on.
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I used to run 4 before, so im well aware - did have a 6800GT Dual DVI in AGP and FX5200 Dual DVI on PCI - but there support for dual mon is a lot better then when i tried it with ATI Cards
 
im assuming the PCI Express 16x is gonna be the standard from sometime - so come the new year when i get a faster SLI style setup up the mobo will be sufficient?
 
Raikiri said:
What mobo? Like I said there arent any that currently support SLi available, not offically anyway
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?

What i mean is if i get a Conroe CPU and 975X Mobo now will it have sufficient PCI-X abilities for the future GFX Card (inc SLi Support)

Would this support SLi?

MSI 975X Platinum V2.0 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-072-MS)
 
McDaniel said:
?

What i mean is if i get a Conroe CPU and 975X Mobo now will it have sufficient PCI-X abilities for the future GFX Card (inc SLi Support)
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No, the 975x chipset DOES NOT support SLi. Only the Nforce 5 chipset whicha rent out yet support SLi. The 975x chipset does however support crossfire.

It has the required speed but simply does not support it.
 
Raikiri said:
No, the 975x chipset DOES NOT support SLi. Only the Nforce 5 chipset whicha rent out yet support SLi. The 975x chipset does however support crossfire.

It has the required speed but simply does not support it.
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Oh right, i get ya - sorry i be the n00b ;)

So if i ever want a proper Dual GFX setup (SLi / Crossfire) - going conroe will mean Crossfire only?

Lets hope ATI dual mon support gets better if thats the case
 
IIRC, the 975x chipset is physically able to support SLi in addition to supporting Crossfire. I've seen benchmarks using nVidia cards in SLi with 975x Conroe systems. The problem is that nVidia's drivers must be modified to get them to work properly. It might be interesting and fun to test but I would not want to have to hack up a new set of drivers for myself at every update.
 
BillytheImpaler said:
IIRC, the 975x chipset is physically able to support SLi in addition to supporting Crossfire. I've seen benchmarks using nVidia cards in SLi with 975x Conroe systems. The problem is that nVidia's drivers must be modified to get them to work properly. It might be interesting and fun to test but I would not want to have to hack up a new set of drivers for myself at every update.
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Yeah thats why I said not officially :p

McDaniel said:
Oh right, i get ya - sorry i be the n00b ;)

So if i ever want a proper Dual GFX setup (SLi / Crossfire) - going conroe will mean Crossfire only?

Lets hope ATI dual mon support gets better if thats the case
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There will be SLi boards for the conroe, they just arent out yet :)
 
MB-020-DF DFI Infinity 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-020-DF)
£129.95 £129.95
CP-126-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-126-IN)
£129.95 £129.95
MY-014-GS G.Skill 2GB DDR2 NR PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBNR) (MY-014-GS)
£114.95 £114.95
GX-043-HT HIS Excalibur ATI Radeon X1800 XT 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-043-HT)
£174.95 £174.95
Subtotal £549.80
VAT £96.22
Total £646.02
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nice spec Rak ;)
 
Thanks Rak, think i might go this route for now

CP-126-IN Intel Core 2 DUO E6300 "LGA775 Conroe" 1.86GHz (1066FSB) - Retail (CP-126-IN)
£129.95 £129.95
MB-020-DF DFI Infinity 975X (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard (MB-020-DF)
£129.95 £129.95
MY-014-GS G.Skill 2GB DDR2 NR PC2-6400 (2x1GB) CAS5 Dual Channel Kit (F2-6400PHU2-2GBNR) (MY-014-GS)
£114.95 £114.95
GX-080-LT Leadtek GeForce 7600 GT 256MB GDDR3 TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (GX-080-LT)
£111.95 £111.95
Subtotal £486.80
VAT £85.19
Total £571.99

Can always get a faster CPU in the future
 
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