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[scousegit]

I don't know wether this is the correct section to ask this question but hopefully you can help


My Current system is bottle necking my 6950 Cross Fire setup and I was wondering wether to wait for ivybridge cpu's or upgrade now? and If I upgrade now which sandybridge chip is the best around the £250 below mark for the chip.

Im looking at CPU / Mobo / Memory upgrade.


My Current system is about 3 years old.


Asus Maximus Formula II 775 Mobo
Intel Q9450 2.66 @ 3.2ghz at the moment.
6GB Corsair PC 8500 Ram.
Crucial 64GB SSD Drive.
2 TB Western digital Backup drive. ( WD20EARS )
2 x 6950 ATI Radeon HD 6950 IceQ X Turbo 2048MB Graphics cards.


I know it's bottlenecking my cards as in the beta BF3 I seem to be getting the same or better fps with a single card than the two. Yet in benchmarks and deus ex I do get better fps with the crossfire, but not as much as I want.


any suggestions on mobo / cpu / memory etc would be appreciated.

 

[95thrifles]

OK Firstly the BF3 beta apparently really doesnt like xfire, so thats not necessarily a good indication, you may want to stick with what you have for now
If you do decide to go for an upgrade then an i5 2500k, decent Z68 board and 4/8 gig dual channel RAM would be way forward

E.G. though mobo is to an extent personal choice, I went Asus as you currently have


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £175.99
1 x Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £131.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £56.99
Total : £376.37 (includes shipping : £9.50).

 

[QuackPot]

OK Firstly the BF3 beta apparently really doesnt like xfire, so thats not necessarily a good indication, you may want to stick with what you have for now
If you do decide to go for an upgrade then an i5 2500k, decent Z68 board and 4/8 gig dual channel RAM would be way forward

E.G. though mobo is to an extent personal choice, I went Asus as you currently have


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £175.99
1 x Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £131.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £56.99
Total : £376.37 (includes shipping : £9.50).

You could save yourself a good £35 at least by buying those parts else where.

 

[scousegit]

You could save yourself a good £35 at least by buying those parts else where.

but does the saving take into account postage?

problem with a lot of online retailers is the joke that is postage costs.

 

[scousegit]

OK Firstly the BF3 beta apparently really doesnt like xfire, so thats not necessarily a good indication, you may want to stick with what you have for now
If you do decide to go for an upgrade then an i5 2500k, decent Z68 board and 4/8 gig dual channel RAM would be way forward

E.G. though mobo is to an extent personal choice, I went Asus as you currently have


YOUR BASKET
1 x Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge) Socket LGA1155 Processor - Retail £175.99
1 x Asus P8Z68-V Intel Z68 (Socket 1155) DDR3 Motherboard £131.99
1 x Corsair XMS3 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 PC3-12800C9 1600MHz Dual Channel Kit (CMX8GX3M2A1600C9) £56.99
Total : £376.37 (includes shipping : £9.50).

I do like asus, and the majority of the upgrades i've done have been asus boards, I've heard good things on the asrock mobo's, are these worth consideration? ( I know asrock is a sort of sister company of asus )

 

[QuackPot]

but does the saving take into account postage?

problem with a lot of online retailers is the joke that is postage costs.

Yeah. Free next day delivery.