q6600 or another 8800GT?

northun_munky · 16 Mar 2008 at 19:08

Just a question about which would give me more of a performance boost, a q6600 CPU or an additional overclockers 8800 GT as can't afford both right now!!

Heres my current system:
Abit FP-1n9 sli
Pentium D 915 @ 3.6
Akasa AK-975CU CPU Cooler
overclockers 8800gt 512
Corsair 2GB PC2-5300C5
450w PSU

I mainly use it to play games and Crysis is a bit hungry! I believe with the FP-1N9, if you run two cards SLI the PCI express bus's only run at 8x each. Would this be a problem if I went down the 2 cards option?

Thanks in advance.

willhub · 16 Mar 2008 at 19:12

Q6600 tbh, that Pentium D will be a bottleneck to that GT I rekon.

A decent dual core should be enough tbh, like an E8400, overclocked of course.

Grimley · 16 Mar 2008 at 19:15

I'd go for the quad myself, if you went for the extra 8800GT your psu may well be not up to the job of powering both cards.

northun_munky · 16 Mar 2008 at 19:22

I was kind of leaning towards the new CPU so thanks for that. Just out of interest, would the PCIe only working at 8x when SLi'd be an issue should I get another 8800 gt in the future?

willhub · 16 Mar 2008 at 19:25

Just noticed the PSU, a Quad core, especially overclocked might be pushing that PSU too, what make/model and the rails on the PSU?

northun_munky · 18 Mar 2008 at 07:34

I'm not sure. Where would I get that info from?

mogwai · 18 Mar 2008 at 08:02

On the Label on the side of the PSU itself.