Re: Time to upgrade

[ctjoyce]

Um? Your going to run crossfire cards on a SLi motherboard? Good luck with that.

Cheers
Cameron

[waspiflab]

oops time to rethink

[ctjoyce]

Indeed.

Intel E6850
ASUS P5N32-E SLi
2x 8800GTS 640MB from eVGA
2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800
Thermaltake ToughPower 700W
320GB Western Digital SATA3
Samgsung DVD Burner
Thermaltake Soprano DX Case
Zalman CNPS-9700Cu + Artic Silver 5
Win Vista Home Premium

Otta be about $1700

Right now, and well, never isn't a good time to do Crossfire. ATi has their stuff together when it comes to single card setups, but nVidia always seems to out preform when it comes to duals

Cheers
Cameron

[jimcooper1]

Indeed.

Intel E6850
ASUS P5N32-E SLi
2x 8800GTS 640MB from eVGA
2GB Corsair XMS2 DDR2-800
Thermaltake ToughPower 700W
320GB Western Digital SATA3
Samgsung DVD Burner
Thermaltake Soprano DX Case
Zalman CNPS-9700Cu + Artic Silver 5
Win Vista Home Premium

Otta be about $1700

Right now, and well, never isn't a good time to do Crossfire. ATi has their stuff together when it comes to single card setups, but nVidia always seems to out preform when it comes to duals

Cheers
Cameron

Cameron, here in the UK your shopping list is below:
http://www.novatech.co.uk/novatech/spec ... MBB-P5N685

[NickN]

you have to wait a bit longer with ATI

If you buy right now you will be stuck on the old crossfire technology. Give it another few months and once AMD/ATi get their chipsets and the new cards out, SLi will have a run for its money, no question about it.

The newer cards will be running much cooler and the new AMD/ATi based motherboards will have 4 PCIe slots for the ATI cards, not 2

If you are hell-bent on crossfire, the x38 chipset is the ONLY way to go as it provides full 2x x16 support onthe PCIe slots

[waspiflab]

it's a money thing at the moment though new tech costs a packet

[Tom...]

Sorry for intruding and possibly being a bit rude, but what is wrong with your current PC?  Judging by the screenshots that you post and the games that you play on high graphics settings nothing seems wrong with it?

[ctjoyce]

Its all about getting on the DX10 and dual core bandwagon. FS9 preformance isn't hard to achieve anymore, FSX is still just barely showing what it can do, and then we have all the next generation DX10 games coming out, so his current rig is a nice one, but not for whats to come in the next 6 months and beyond.

Cheers
Cameron