New upgrade

ash7jar · 2 Apr 2006 at 11:15

Ok here is the deal I currently have an AMD 4000+ on a MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra (Socket 939) PCI-Express Motherboard and a ATI X850 xtpe and 2 gig of ram.

I am looking to upgrade my pc spending about £900

I would like to change to NVIDIA because I have had a lot of problems with my ati card, crashing in BF2 and fear ect….

And not shore if I want SLI, is it worth the money?, I am a 100% gamer on my PC.

And do I need to upgrade to Dual Core Athlon 64's?

I can keep my case, hhd’s and cd drives and PSU which is a 480w Akasa

thanks for any help Ash

semi-pro waster · 2 Apr 2006 at 11:43

What is wrong with your PC other than you don't get on with the X850XT? Are you suffering slowdown in games or anything? It may be that a new graphics card is all you really need to make it acceptable again because it is still a pretty high end PC.

Dual core is worth it if you are likely to be multitasking but you have to spend a fair bit of money to get one faster for single cored applications than your current A64 4000(excluding overclocking here). In general I don't think SLi is worth it as single cards are less hassle and unless at very high resolutions quite capable.

If you want Nvidia then I'd probably just get a 7900gt at £250ish or 7900GTX at anywhere from about £380 to £500 depending on your budget.

ash7jar · 2 Apr 2006 at 11:49

well some say the MSI K8N Neo4 Platinum nForce4 Ultra was a bad choice I

didn’t no if I should change it :confused:

I just read some good reviews on it at the time

ash7jar · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:30

so SLI not really worth the money??

fenderbass86 · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:37

I personally think it's a good board, I think that's the one I'm gonna get.

SLi/X-fire is only worth bothering about IF you play games above 1600x1200 with AA/AF. What size monitor are you using?

ash7jar · 2 Apr 2006 at 21:46

Well at the mo im using a 17" TFT but im getting the or thinking about NEC LCD20WGX2.

AMDX23800+ · 2 Apr 2006 at 22:34

Don't bother with SLI, You are way better to get just one really good graphics card like the 7800GTX 512mb + it costs less, you can always add another 7800GTX 512mb *** in like a year or somethin

The rest of your PC looks fine to me though

Just get a 7800GTX 512mb !

Monstermunch · 2 Apr 2006 at 23:46

Agreed, any dual gfx card setup is a clever marketing scam and a complete waste of money.

Look at it this way, gfx cards are updated every 6-9 months these days so 2 gfx cards will be out of date at the same time as a single one. You're better off saving your money and just upgrading the gfx card every 9-12 months.