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My Motherboard- Asus M2N32 Sli DELUXE

Question: I have been running my Pc with Sli, but it seems one of my Video Cards has taken a crapper. I have thought about upgrading to 1 4870, since both of my previous cards 6800gt are out of dated. I realize since my board supports Nvidia Sli, that i wont be able to run it in Sli, since ati is Crossfire, but will i be able to use the 1 4870 in my system?
 
what processor, PSU, ram, what games do you play.. we need way more information
 
Yes you can run the 4870 by itself in your system. Before you do make sure you clean out the drivers properly.
 
your processor might bottleneck that card depending on what you are using though
 
Computer Specs:

Motherboard: M2N32Sli Deluxe
PowerSupply- ThermalTake Toughpower 650 watt power supply
Memory- 2x1gb of corsair 6400c4 memory. so 2gb
Processor- basically AMD Athlon X2 4600.

Games- i only really play world of warcrack. nothing hardcore.
 
My monitor can go up to 1680x1050, and when i ran my 6800gt, they scaled up to that resolution somehow.

I usually game at highest which is 1680x1050.
 
You dont need a 4870 for that res, you would be fine with a 4850 for all your needs. 4870 1gb would be overkill. Though if you can get a 4870 @ a cheapo price, it would be worth it
 
GlobalRegion256 said:
Motherboard:__M2N32 SLI Deluxe
Processor:___ AMD Athlon X2 4600.

Games: I only really play world of warcrack. nothing hardcore.
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I'd pick up a lower-end Quad if I were you, like this Black Edition ;)
and lower your Graphics purchase down to a Radeon 4850.
800 streaming processors is A Lot Of Processors dude :D

You can do both for about the same amount of cheese,
whether retail or if you look through vetted traders in FS/T :cool:
 
Well.. even at 1280x1024 and an overclocked 4850 on my system, I still coudn't run 60fps all the time on WoW with all detail all the way up.

4850 at 1680x1050... hrmmm. Personally I would go for at least a 4870.

Either way, you are going to see a huge speed increase.

But.. a 4850 or 4870... or even a 4830 is gonna be bottlenecked by the CPU.
 
Since you have an SLI board and coming from a 6800gt, have you given thought to GTS 240/250? Maybe the same card in the 8 or 9 series, since the changes are pretty minor. The 8 or 9 series versions you could probably pick up used for pretty cheap.

Just a thought.
 
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