Would I benefit...

]MadBoy[ · 27 Dec 2006 at 14:57

Thinking of upgrading sometime soon, would I actually benefit from doing so?

Thinking about:
Intel Core 2 DUO E6600 2.40Ghz
Asus Striker Mobo
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-8500C5

Using my other stuff aswell for now, then probably get new GFX. I mean the games i play are all running at 1920x1200, I see dips in the games sometimes as low as 12fps City of Villians this is. Would i see a vast improvement for getting the above, over what I have below, or is the Key a 8800GTX OC

Lolcb · 27 Dec 2006 at 15:04

Becareful with the striker mobo. Some CPU cooler is not compatible with the mobo as it will hit the heatsink that comes with the mobo.

steve258 · 27 Dec 2006 at 15:51

Yes you will see massive improvements in high resolution gaming.

]MadBoy[ · 27 Dec 2006 at 16:12

£750 of improvement!?

I have a tuniq Tower 120mm, looking at the layout of the board it should go. As I have the A8N32-Sli deluxe, the tuniq fits but the small fan for the heatpipe has to go on the **** to fit.

Lolcb · 27 Dec 2006 at 16:17

To be honest here, if you want to get improvement in games, go for 8800GTX. Your cpu etc are good enough for now.

]MadBoy[ · 27 Dec 2006 at 16:24

ai was thinking this, but whats to been done with the 2xBFG7800 GTX OC's £1000 worth a kit, worth pennies...

Lolcb · 27 Dec 2006 at 16:25

Try to sell the graphics card you have now while you still can. Use the fund to help in buying a 8800GTX.

Raikiri · 27 Dec 2006 at 16:41

BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail BFG GeForce 8800 GTX 768MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £339.99
(£399.49) £339.99
(£399.49)
BFG nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard BFG nForce 680 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £154.99
(£182.11) £154.99
(£182.11)
Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail Intel Core 2 DUO E6400 "LGA775 Allendale" 2.13GHz (1066FSB) - Retail £123.99
(£145.69) £123.99
(£145.69)
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2 Dominator PC2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) £179.99
(£211.49) £179.99
(£211.49)
Sub Total : £798.96
Shipping cost assumes delivery to UK Mainland with:
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri)
(This can be changed during checkout) Shipping : £8.95
Vat : £141.38
Total : £949.29

And sell your 7900s, you still have an upgrade path to SLI, the cpu and RAM will do 3.2ghz+ no problem and you get a faster graohics card straight away. Or just keep your 7900s (what I would do). Saves £200 and gets you the same performance, maybe 1-2% slower when overclocked on air. If not overclocked then about 10% slower.

thefishdude · 27 Dec 2006 at 18:16

unless you going to do some very heavy overclocking then you can wont need the pc8500 memory. pc6400 will cover most overclocking situations

]MadBoy[ · 27 Dec 2006 at 23:24

how mush u recon for the 2 BFG 7800GTX OC's?