Hi,
Been looking at Sandy Bridge and seeing how good it is and its making me want to get a new system.
But to be honest ive got a Q6600, 8GB DDR2 ram and a 9500GT and i just think i can hold out until that Sandy-E or Ivy Bridge comes out in a years time for a new machine. I want to 'double' my specs if i buy, so would want 8/16 cores and 16GB ram if its needed, but DDR3 is faster so 8GB of that might be sufficient.
The problem is my graphics card. i was using Pyrit which uses Cuda and noticed my card only has 32 cuda cores, im not sure if another name for it is stream processors? Whereas a top of the range GTX 580 has 512 of these Cuda cores.
After having a look today i think the GTX 560 and 470 were my primary choices but the power supply in my pc is quite low. A lot of the reviews said the 470 was terrible for power and heat, plus Nvidia state it needs 550W.
It says on the box of my PSU its 480W but my old one was 750W but that made a horrible noise at boot and got replaced. I still do have that one as a spare but havent figured out if its fixable yet. If i can fix it, i would put it back in my machine.
So my requirements are as below:
1. Have a decent ammount of Cuda Cores for pyrit processing.
2. Play recent games at a decent level, high/medium is ok
3. Have 2/3 outputs for displays, but the displays are really 2 tv's and a monitor, so both tv's have HDMI and VGA but no DVI. Not sure if you can get DVI to HDMI adaptors? i would want all three screens usable for the PC.
If its going to cost to much, i will be ok with 2 monitors like i use now.
4. Cost the most about £220 for a GFX card, £600 for a new build.
5. Preferble Nvidia, unless the ATI card is proven to work with Pyrit without to much hassle.
6. Motherboard is ASUS P5N-E SLI
on the cd and on a review it says it suited for Nvidia which i guess is for SLI but does that mean i cant get ATI cards?
Also on the Motherboard. question, can i keep my old 9500gt card just display output purposes? Im not sure if there is enough slots for another GFX if its not SLI?
So go for a GTX 560 or try and get £100 for what ive got and do an upgrade to SB?
That Intel medium build looks like a good starting poing if i could knock a few £'s off it on the forums.
Thanks.
Been looking at Sandy Bridge and seeing how good it is and its making me want to get a new system.
But to be honest ive got a Q6600, 8GB DDR2 ram and a 9500GT and i just think i can hold out until that Sandy-E or Ivy Bridge comes out in a years time for a new machine. I want to 'double' my specs if i buy, so would want 8/16 cores and 16GB ram if its needed, but DDR3 is faster so 8GB of that might be sufficient.
The problem is my graphics card. i was using Pyrit which uses Cuda and noticed my card only has 32 cuda cores, im not sure if another name for it is stream processors? Whereas a top of the range GTX 580 has 512 of these Cuda cores.
After having a look today i think the GTX 560 and 470 were my primary choices but the power supply in my pc is quite low. A lot of the reviews said the 470 was terrible for power and heat, plus Nvidia state it needs 550W.
It says on the box of my PSU its 480W but my old one was 750W but that made a horrible noise at boot and got replaced. I still do have that one as a spare but havent figured out if its fixable yet. If i can fix it, i would put it back in my machine.
So my requirements are as below:
1. Have a decent ammount of Cuda Cores for pyrit processing.
2. Play recent games at a decent level, high/medium is ok
3. Have 2/3 outputs for displays, but the displays are really 2 tv's and a monitor, so both tv's have HDMI and VGA but no DVI. Not sure if you can get DVI to HDMI adaptors? i would want all three screens usable for the PC.
If its going to cost to much, i will be ok with 2 monitors like i use now.
4. Cost the most about £220 for a GFX card, £600 for a new build.
5. Preferble Nvidia, unless the ATI card is proven to work with Pyrit without to much hassle.
6. Motherboard is ASUS P5N-E SLI
on the cd and on a review it says it suited for Nvidia which i guess is for SLI but does that mean i cant get ATI cards?
Also on the Motherboard. question, can i keep my old 9500gt card just display output purposes? Im not sure if there is enough slots for another GFX if its not SLI?
So go for a GTX 560 or try and get £100 for what ive got and do an upgrade to SB?
That Intel medium build looks like a good starting poing if i could knock a few £'s off it on the forums.
Thanks.
