Help Me on Upgrades?

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heatthegreat

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This is probably not for this forum, but this is the most active section and I can probably get my question answered here. I'm gonna list what I currently have, and Im trying to figure out what is worth for me to upgrade at the moment, and list the upgrade next to my current hardware. I'd greatly appreciate it.


I currently have :

CPU - Intel c2d E6750 stock speeds 2.67ghz /w asus silent square heatsink

RAM - gskill 2GB PC26400 DDR2 800

Video card - evga 8880gt SSC

Motherboard - Abit I-P35 E


That's the important stuff I think, just if anyone can, just list what I should upgrade to for each part or if I need to upgrade at all , the money i can spend atm is about 800-900 roughly. thanks

btw, I game at 1920x1200
 
For $800-900, the GTX280 becomes an option for your setup, but it probably won't be a drastic improvement over your current setup.

Another option would be to get an SLI board and SLI your 8800GT, though that would require some effort and some of your budget would be going to a motherboard upgrade.

A promising possibility would be AMD's offerings with their HD4000 series. With your P35 board (which I also assume to have more than one PCIe x16 slot), you could go dual GPU with HD4850s, or the 4870s when they come out.

It's probably best to wait and see how the 4870s and the 4870X2s fare in benchmarking before making your decision, all the cards available aren't on the table yet. :)
 
Buy a board with SLi support and another 8800GT.
That's all I got for you.

Oh and overclock that E6750.
 
so, a SLI board and another 8800GT, I was thinking of that, so my processor is good for another 5-6 months as well as my ram? Didnt know how well SLI was, thats why I never bothered, hear there were problems with it etc. Btw, whats a good SLI board?
 
I'm not here to randomly give out advice on what I think you need so lets sort out what you want to do with the system:

Game on it? Which games do you feel are lacking in gameplay? Do you do other kinds of work ( real work, not ooh I convert videos ... once a month) that would be processor intensive?

Is this a major upgrade that you want to last you for more than a year or is it just going to tide you over until Nehalem or something?
 
UtopiA said:
Buy a board with SLi support and another 8800GT.
That's all I got for you.
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Experiences may vary as far as how badly this is noticed, but SLI setups are prone to microstuttering. I tried the 8800GT -> 8800GT SLI upgrade route two months ago, and ended up buying a GTX 280 because I wanted to return to a single GPU. If you're going for more video card performance, I'd honestly say that a stronger single GPU (GTX 260 or ATI's Radeon 4870 when they get released soon) would be a better value than a new motherboard and a second 8800GT.
 
TKD said:
Experiences may vary as far as how badly this is noticed, but SLI setups are prone to microstuttering. I tried the 8800GT -> 8800GT SLI upgrade route two months ago, and ended up buying a GTX 280 because I wanted to return to a single GPU. If you're going for more video card performance, I'd honestly say that a stronger single GPU (GTX 260 or the Radeon 4870 when they get released soon) would be a better value than a new motherboard and a second 8800GT.
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Good point, could always buy a single GTX 280 for less than $800-$900 obviously.
:)
 
UtopiA said:
Good point, could always buy a single GTX 280 for less than $800-$900 obviously.
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Yup, if he's fine with spending the majority of the $800-900 budget on one. If not, the other two cards I mentioned should be noticeably faster than a single 8800GT when they become available.
 
well, all I play now is CoD 4, mass effect, oblivion atm, which my system handles with no problem with max settings, but Im worried about the future, games like Farcry 2, project origin, spore, and whatever else is coming out, thats what Im upgrading for, so I can probably wait till around october when these games actually come out right? btw, im pretty anal about having everything at max, so thats why I upgrade every 6 months :p
 
heatthegreat said:
well, all I play now is CoD 4, mass effect, oblivion atm, which my system handles with no problem with max settings, but Im worried about the future, games like Farcry 2, project origin, spore, and whatever else is coming out, thats what Im upgrading for, so I can probably wait till around october when these games actually come out right? btw, im pretty anal about having everything at max, so thats why I upgrade every 6 months :p
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Ah I see. See you just got the itch right now, not the need, lol. Wait until those games come out, then buy a graphics card if you need to. But then again, it's the itch so I'd just suggest a single GTX 280 and be done with it, heh. Also, overclock your processor to at least 3 GHz, after which you won't notice much increase in gameplay performance.
 
yea, i do have the itch. Heh, even though my system is fine for pretty much all the games besides crysis, with new hardware coming out, i have to have it! naw, I guess I can wait and I should wait, thanks for the answers
 
heatthegreat said:
, but Im worried about the future, games like Farcry 2, project origin, spore, and whatever else is coming out,
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I know this doesn't apply to the other games, but just so you know, Spore actually has very minimal requirements. I received the Spore Creature Creator from Amazon today, and I was surprised how low the requirements were for Spore (not just the creature creator).
 
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