Upgrading 7800GT

[Ozstar]

Im looking to upgrade my graphics card which is a Nvidia 7800 GT running on a Asus A8N32-SLI Deluxe mobo.

Its been a while since i upgraded, so im out of the loop with what i can and cant fit. The motherboard says it will run Dual x16 PCI-E, so im looking to find out what i can fit from the current Nvidia range.

• Would a 8800 work?
• could i SLI them?
• would i need to update the bios?

thanks for your help.

 

[easyrider]

Hi,

Welcome to the forums.

8800 would work
You could SLI them.
A bios update would not go a miss.

Depending on what CPU you have you may find you are cpu limited.

 

[Ozstar]

ok some other system details

• AMD 4400 64 X2 Dual // 2.21ghz
• 2GB Ram

 

[easyrider]

Should be ok.

Although depending on res you game at 8800GT SLI would really need a faster CPU to

allow them to breathe.

 

[Ozstar]

its running on a 20" widescreen so id really like to make use of that in games maybe running at 1680x1050 - my current setup doesnt really allow for that.

 

[easyrider]

its running on a 20" widescreen so id really like to make use of that in games maybe running at 1680x1050 - my current setup doesnt really allow for that.

Get an 8800 GTS 512mb for £164

http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-017-PV&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=927

Perfect for that res and a huge upgrade.

Clocking your Cpu up to 2.6ghz will help to.

 

[Ozstar]

thank you for the help, would the system benefit from 4gb of memory? or is 2gb enough

 

[easyrider]

thank you for the help, would the system benefit from 4gb of memory? or is 2gb enough

Running 4 banks of 1 gig on s939 will limit your overclock and potentially lead

to problems.


2 GIG is fine unless you want to run 64 bit vista.

 

[Ozstar]

ok, is that gfx card SLI compatible and would that be worth it?

 

[Gib_Gib]

It is SLi compat, but it will not be worth it with the cpu limiting it.

You will notice a big difference with buying that gfx card as a singular one though.