New Rig Suggestions

Wizzkidy · 20 Sep 2009 at 18:38

Hi guys,

The wife has caved in and I'm able to spend £1000 next month give or take 100 or 200 over if absolutely need

My current setup

E6400 @ 3.2
Gigabyte GA-EP35C-DS3R
4Gb Kingston 8500
Leadtek GTX260 (192)
Hiper 580Watt PSU
x2 320Gb in RAID 0
x1 Western Digital 500Gb

I have been pondering over the last few days, I came up with a decent I7 system but I would like suggestions from others. I am also looking at going in a SLI setup maybe with x2 GTX260's or something, how do two 260's perform?

Also if I did buy two new GTX260's will my older leaktek (192?) work in tri sli?

Wizzkidy · 20 Sep 2009 at 18:51

I'm sorry guys, yes its mainly for gaming. I have normally bought Nvidia and have been looking at the benchmarks for the 5870 etc... If they where a MASSIVE increase say over the 295 I might be tempted but from the looks of it performance is good but not what i was expecting.

The Q9550.. you think its worth not buying an I7 at all then?

Wizzkidy · 20 Sep 2009 at 19:08

I thought it was worth moving to socket 1366 though for the future, This rig will need to last me 3 years or longer if possible as I doubt this will come a long again anytime soon

Wizzkidy · 21 Sep 2009 at 18:17

Ok, so from what I see here no point going I7 - basically a waste of power even though I wont have this again for 3 odd years.

All seem to be pointing to ATI cards, I have always liked NVIDIA but i'm willing to "try" an ATI if everyone thinks this is the best.

Have I any more suggestions on a new rig from anyone or is the above the general concensus from all of ya