new rig (Revised)

Dangerman3 · 4 Nov 2007 at 16:23

well after the release of the 8800GT and the perfomance of it i thought i'de revise my build

Motherboard
Asus P5N32-E SLI NF680i SLI, S 775, PCI-E (x16), DDR2 533/667/800

CPU
Q6600 G0 95w

Memory
2GB (2x1GB) Corsair TwinX XMS2, DDR2 PC2-6400 (800), 240 Pins

Hard Drive
Hitachi Deskstar T7K500 NCQ 320GB SATA-II 16MB Cache

PSU
620W Corsair HX Series Modular SLi PSU, ATX, EPS 12V, whisper quiet,

Cooling
Scythe Infinity Heatpipe CPU Cooler

GFX card
512MB EVGA 8800GT PCI-E 2.0 (x16), 1800 MHz, GDDR3, GPU 600 MHz

Food for thought

i've change the motherboard from the P35 DS3P to p5n32-e sli

Memory change to cheaper 6400 memory 2GB (will get another 2GB when i can afford)

Changed GFX card from GTX to 8800GT and will SLI these when i have funds

basically anyone know of difficulties with the P5N32-e
will the psu be enough to power two 8800GT's
Ill also be OCing the cpu to about 3.2 if thats possible lol

Dangerman3 · 4 Nov 2007 at 16:58

come on guys some help please

liam8582007 · 4 Nov 2007 at 17:26

i've change the motherboard from the P35 DS3P to p5n32-e sli

Why was that?

P35 are better for Quad's from what i've seen...especially as you plan to OC that Q6600.

Liam

yantorsen · 4 Nov 2007 at 17:29

liam8582007 said:
Why was that?

P35 are better for Quad's from what i've seen...especially as you plan to OC that Q6600.

Liam

becasue he said he might go SLi when he has the funds.

Dangerman3 · 4 Nov 2007 at 17:49

yer i feel SLI is the future and since no p35 boards are sli only crossfire that counts them out and although i could go crossfire ATI cards to me are no where near nvidia cards.

will the PSU be enough to power two 8800gt's

yantorsen · 4 Nov 2007 at 17:51

Dangerman3 said:
yer i feel SLI is the future and since no p35 boards are sli only crossfire that counts them out and although i could go crossfire ATI cards to me are no where near nvidia cards.

will the PSU be enough to power two 8800gt's

you thought about x38?

Dangerman3 · 4 Nov 2007 at 18:26

Are they nvidia based motherboards. Can i go SLI with them

yantorsen · 4 Nov 2007 at 18:28

Dangerman3 said:
Are they nvidia based motherboards. Can i go SLI with them

x38 is an intel chipset.

Dangerman3 · 4 Nov 2007 at 19:00

well ive read on a competitor website in their spec's for a x38 board such as the maximus and others that their crossfire not SLI

yantorsen · 4 Nov 2007 at 21:09

Dangerman3 said:
well ive read on a competitor website in their spec's for a x38 board such as the maximus and others that their crossfire not SLI

who said they were Sli? I said it because they will support the generation of gpu's that support pci-e 2.0, and the next generation of nvidia gpu is essentially two gtx's on the same pcb.

Dangerman3 · 4 Nov 2007 at 23:05

well that's no use to me if it doesnt support nvidia cards. i wanted two 8800gt's in sli and if X38 boards cant take SLI then obviously X38 boards aren't the way to go.

but thanks for your help anyway

yantorsen · 4 Nov 2007 at 23:15

Dangerman3 said:
well that's no use to me if it doesnt support nvidia cards. i wanted two 8800gt's in sli and if X38 boards cant take SLI then obviously X38 boards aren't the way to go.

but thanks for your help anyway

it does support Nvidia cards! and tbh SLi is not the way to go, not when you are buying cards from scratch, if you already had another card it might be worth it.

DavidB · 5 Nov 2007 at 00:25

2x budget card rarely outperforms 1 top of the range card.

As it is 2 gt's would perform better than a gtx, but when theres new gts/gtx's that will perform better whilst using less power around the corner, i feel getting sli gt's its just a waste of cash and electricity.

However that PSU would run them in SLI fine.

Id suggest thisram instead, just another few quid cheaper for pretty much the same stuff....if you can save, why not.