Is it almost time for a new build?

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OrAnGe

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My current PC consists of: (Breif Description)

Dual Core AMD Opteron 165. Socket 939. from 2.2ghz to 2.7ghz. 300x9

DFI Lan Party Ultra SLI-DR Expert s939 Mobo

2gb of G.Skill HZ DDR DRAM Frequency 225.1

eVGA Geforce 8800GTX

74gb WD Raptor and 150gb WD Raptor. 200gb Seagate SATA.

Creative X-Fi Xtreme Music

I built this computer 2 years ago then bought the 8800GTX Last year.
I was thinking of building a new PC this year.

Do you think it would be worth upgrading my PC when the next revision of the 8800 comes out? (Hopefully sometime within the next 4 months)

A friend said he would buy my PC, so it got me thinking. Keep in mind I don't make a great living. But I will drop 2kish on the core components if it will be worth it now as opposed to 6 months to a year.

I'd like to be able to play games like ARMA, Crysis, UT3, and some other upcomming titles with out hurting so much. TF2 is playable but it makes me kind of sick how some games can hurt this PC. I expected TF2 to run better than it does on my machine.
 
Wow... I'm surprised that the games don't run well on your current configuration. I guess the CPU's bottlenecking the rest of the machine.

If you really need to upgrade, all you (may) have to do is get an Intel Core 2 (Duo/Quad) processor and a P35-based motherboard (and, if you don't already have it, DDR2 800 RAM). With prices as they are now, you may able to purchase the CPU, mobo, and RAM for around $500 (and transfer the rest of your parts over).

The next revision of the 8800 that supposed to be coming out is actually a refresh of the 8800GTS (with 65nm processors) in Q1 2008. I don't know if/when the refresh/successor to the 8800GTX is coming.
 
I run all my games at 1920x1080. That's the native res of this westinghouse 37w3.

I run most games at max settings if I can. I use 8xAF and I never use AA.

I was hoping to build something in feb. But i'd probably want to get a C2D in the 300-350$ Range, what ever mobo seems best in the 200-250 range in Feb, a Thermalright 120 Extreme if I remember right, ermmmm..... I was thinking about DDR3 but I haven't read up on it in awhile, ahhhh and i'd have to upgrade my OCZ Powerstream 520w power supply to something nice and powerful that's modular.

I would keep my Creative X-Fi, hard drives, and optical drives. My antec p180 has been a great case, even though the OCZ power supply is to big and not modular so I had to take out the 120 on the bottom. The Silverstone TJ10 looks so delicious. Normally I would never even begin to think of buying a case that over priced but something makes me want to. I'd actually probably be satisfied with a case for a long time if I got it though and there would be my savings ;).

Then the hardest part is deciding weather or not to get the new 8800GTS and put it in SLI or keep the 8800GTX. I suppose it depends on the performance of the 8800GTS and if the 8800GT is any indication I imagine it will be fairly superior to an 8800GTX while at the same time using less power and producing less heat due to a smaller die size. I assume that will cost more than just buying another 8800GTX, maybe.

MMMMM Run on sentences, improper punctuation, and poor GRAMARRRRR. Got to love it.

Won't the new 8800GTS have a gig of video memory though?
 
Save your money and buy a new system in february/march.

Yours is fine. Lower that god damm resolution and you will have 0 problems
 
Yea, since 1920x1080 is the native res, I don't think i'll be reducing the resolution. If I have to lower the resolution, i'd rather just not play the game. An LCD on any res but it's native looks like trash.
 
OrAnGe said:
Yea, since 1920x1080 is the native res, I don't think i'll be reducing the resolution. If I have to lower the resolution, i'd rather just not play the game. An LCD on any res but it's native looks like trash.
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Well that depends on how far away you're sitting from it, lol.

You could grab another GTX for SLI or wait for the GTX replacements come out... they should be able to handle the res of the westy.
 
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