upgraded system!

Discussion in 'New Build / Upgrade Advice' started by REDneck87, Jun 27, 2005.

  1. REDneck87

    REDneck87 Geek Trainee

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    here are the new system specs that I will have in my system...i know my ram and my card will bottleneck, but it will still improve my computers performace so that I can play until I upgrade Pci-E.
    2.4ghz Pentium 4
    1 gb/PC2700
    Abit AI7 motherboard
    MSI 6600gt
    Rosewell 500W powersupply, with 12V@26A
    1 wd 80gb hardrive
    1 sony cdrw drive
    1 dvdrw drive

    Tell me how it is. Hopefully I can play some games with this:)
     
  2. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    6600GT isnt that bad, it plays todays games pretty good, and even the sli 6600GTs can almost kick out playable frames at an average of 28fps on doom3 on ultra with 4xAA and 8xAF and 1600x1200

    though if you upgrade get the 6800GT, it gets 32.5 on that on average (victory dance)
     
  3. REDneck87

    REDneck87 Geek Trainee

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    NOo...a 6800gt would be a waste of money if I am going to PCI-E next year....6600gt already bottlenecks my old 2.4ghz cpu....so I believe a 6600gt will do the job for cod, cod:uo, bf2, and hopefully stalker. I dont' have to have the graphics on full settings either... :good:
     
  4. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    oh next YEAR haha

    you could prob get a 7800 for the price of a 6800GT then haha

    wow next year, your vid card will kick mine's ass
     
  5. swirly

    swirly Geek Trainee

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    GET SLI!!
     
  6. Exfoliate

    Exfoliate Geek Trainee

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    SLI has gone down but I'm waiting to see what CrossFire can do. Your setup will play Call of Duty and BF2 just fine, though you might have to tone things down a little with BF2. A gig of most any ram is nice so I don't think PC2700 will cause any issues with performance. As for Stalker the system requirements are the highest I've ever seen but I imagine you can probably still play it with things on lower settings, the cpu will cause the most probs, as the game requires like a 1.8 or 2.0GHz p4 so things may be a tad dicey but you never know. Good luck mate.
     
  7. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    yeah but like i said before alot, i wonder how the crossfire chipset will compete towards the SLI
     
  8. Exfoliate

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    Didn't you say both sockets had full 16x capabilities or something, if so in the future that will be a determining factor.
     
  9. Addis

    Addis The King

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    On paper, Crossfire seems to outdo SLI. Not only in performance terms (relying on the fact that the cards themselves are fast enough, not just the synch method) but in marketing. You can run a different model card with a Xfire card unlike SLI.

    Crossfire method will allow Supertiling, effectively splitting the screen into 32 sqaures for rendering making better load balance than nvidia scalable link method.
     
  10. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    yeah,

    i was just mainly pointing at multiple applications, encoding, etc.
     
  11. Addis

    Addis The King

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    SLI and Crossfire are really only designed for games, especially SLI. A multi-GPU solution with 2 of the most powerful workstation cards would be nice. Not for games but for 3dsmax and the like.
     
  12. zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG

    zRoCkIsAdDiCtInG HWF Guitar Freak

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    yes but Nforce 4 SLI kinda was lucky to be based on the Nforce 4 Ultra and its upgraded by a bit more, its not all about the games,

    its a very good chipset + saving the world from hell on mars on high quality
     
  13. Willz

    Willz MiCrO$oFt $uK$ :D

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  14. Matt555

    Matt555 iMod

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    No it isnt, a board equipped with sli would say so and it has new pci-e slots, this one doesn't.
     
  15. Willz

    Willz MiCrO$oFt $uK$ :D

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    errm, that motherboard in that link is pci-e
     
  16. Matt555

    Matt555 iMod

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    oh ryt sorry, my bad :(
     
  17. Willz

    Willz MiCrO$oFt $uK$ :D

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    its pic-e and an nf4 chipset, thats why i thought it could of had sli.
     
  18. Matt555

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    yeah sli is 2 graphics cards working together isnt it? pci-e is just the connector they use. so it may have pci-e but may not be able to have sli graphics cards as for sli you need 2 of them.
     
  19. Willz

    Willz MiCrO$oFt $uK$ :D

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    yea i kow that.
     

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