I've been out of the loop for quite a while now. Not only have I got married but I now have a little 'un on the way and if I'm I'm honest i can't remember the last time I did any serious gaming. Probable the last i-event I went to last November... and it had been a while before then!!!
Anyways, my gaming rig still stands up I reckon. All 4 sticks of my Ballistix ram died recently so I've chucked 8GB in as you do to replace it. It also has a Q6600 running at 3.6Ghz and an 8800GTX, well it did until yesterday... I picked up a 9800 GX2 for £150, bloke bought it for a HTPC (no really!) it was too big and has been sat on his shelf for months... So I have installed that now but I'm not too convinced of its abilities. I've tried half a dozen driver sets and it hasn't made much of (if at all) a difference over the GTX. In the Crysis demo it does run smoother (using 177.39 drivers) but in CS:S it has cut fps by 50% or more!
I don't know whether to sell the GTX and GX2 and get a single 4850/4870 or just keep the GX2. This is probably the last time I'll upgrade for a year so I don't want to be caught short. Monitor res is 1920X1200 so I prefer to game at that...
Any ideas folks, what would YOU do?
Anyways, my gaming rig still stands up I reckon. All 4 sticks of my Ballistix ram died recently so I've chucked 8GB in as you do to replace it. It also has a Q6600 running at 3.6Ghz and an 8800GTX, well it did until yesterday... I picked up a 9800 GX2 for £150, bloke bought it for a HTPC (no really!) it was too big and has been sat on his shelf for months... So I have installed that now but I'm not too convinced of its abilities. I've tried half a dozen driver sets and it hasn't made much of (if at all) a difference over the GTX. In the Crysis demo it does run smoother (using 177.39 drivers) but in CS:S it has cut fps by 50% or more!
I don't know whether to sell the GTX and GX2 and get a single 4850/4870 or just keep the GX2. This is probably the last time I'll upgrade for a year so I don't want to be caught short. Monitor res is 1920X1200 so I prefer to game at that...
Any ideas folks, what would YOU do?
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