more ram or more conroe?

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Need to choose between upgrading from the 2.4 conroe to the 2.66 ... or upgrading from 2gigs to 4gigs of corsair 6400 ram.

ASUS P5N32-SLI SE Deluxe board. What would you choose?
 
You can always overclock your conroe, I'd personally go for more ram.

You do have 64 it windows right?
 
between the two, more ram. But make sure that your psu is beefy enough and quality before either of those. :)
 
You can't find anywhere else more deserving but to move to 4 gigs of ram?

What're you looking to do with this computer?
 
Gaming.

Btw changed mobo to ASUS P5W DH DELUXE

I think I've made the decision, no dinner for two months and go both ;)
 
Ready?


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If anyone has any recomendations pleeeeease let me know. I need to keep it under 4k
Thanks :)
 
do you already have a monitor? If you dont have a large LCD 2 1950xt's isnt worth the money IMO. If you are going to be gaming on a 24" with all goodies on then they are 100% worth it. But even with a 20.1" LCD you could play all games with that setup with only one 1950xt and it would kick ass. If you dont have a monitor I would drop 2gb of the memory to go toward a display as really you only 2gb for anything today anyway.
 
I'd take the X6800 over 4 gigs of ram, unless your running a ton of memory intensive apps at the same time, you'll be fine with 2 gigs. Also, the mb should come with IDE cables, unless you really want round cables, you can get good airflow by folding the ribbon type ide cables correctly. You shouldn't need 2 crossfire edition cards, get one crossfire and one regular. That memory is really high priced, I'd go with some gskill or patriot for much cheaper.
 
that Samsung or the Viewsonic VX2025. I absolutely love mine, I researched for about 2 weeks before I bought it.
 
If you can OC it to 3.0-3.2 ish then I'd say more ram IF you are planning to jump on Vista right away. If you plan to wait on Vista for whatever reason, the 2.66 will give you a year of satisfaction, and might clock every so slightly higher.

:)
 
If you have this much money to spend, just get a huge ass 1080p plasma tv and connect it to your setup :-P
 
no plasma haha. My budget is 4k for the whole rig.
So now no more dual 1950xtx's, only one. But upgraded to conroe extreme.
 
Did you ever think of going dual processors? For 4 grand you could build a pretty nice workstation.
 
Don't upgrade to conroe extreme, you get better processing from the video card, not the cpu.

Go with two gpus.

BTW, I hope your 21 inch crt is digital, otherwise you'll kill it quickly. Those cards need dvi. I;'d suggest buying the lg.
 
ok so back to dual cards, but I was under the impression that a widescreen lcd wont give you those impressive resolutions that standard can ?
 
Widescreen is the shiznit. Once you go widescreen, you don't go back.

You can see alot more shit when you're playing a game for one thing. It doesn't hurt your eyes since your eyes are naturally widescreen for another.

Try it, you'll never go back to 4:3.
 
If your gonna have that much power at your disposal you may as well go for a quality 24" lcd monitor. I recommend the Dell 2407FPW, 6ms, 1920x1200 a very nice lcd monitor that is complete quality and will insure you get the most out of your 2xX1950XTX's.
 
tisb0b said:
If your gonna have that much power at your disposal you may as well go for a quality 24" lcd monitor. I recommend the Dell 2407FPW, 6ms, 1920x1200 a very nice lcd monitor that is complete quality and will insure you get the most out of your 2xX1950XTX's.
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The 3007FPW would put that crossfire setup to good use, no? And it has 11 ms (grey-to-grey) and 14 ms (black-to-black) response times @ 700:1 and 400 cd/m²... all for only $1850. That leaves you with $2150 for the system.
 
enginurd said:
The 3007FPW would put that crossfire setup to good use, no? And it has 11 ms (grey-to-grey) and 14 ms (black-to-black) response times @ 700:1 and 400 cd/m²... all for only $1850. That leaves you with $2150 for the system.
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you did get me there but both are good choices :)
 
tisb0b said:
you did get me there but both are good choices :)
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Though, the 2407 is only $750, lol... hm... dual 24!! oh wait, SLI :mad: there goes dual monitor setups, lol.
 
Their are no contrast issues, but most of their contrast monitors 'only' go up to 1000:1, even when it comes to tvs :-\
 
I'd go with Team Group DDR2-667 3-3-3 ram instead of the overpriced Corsair. Here is the ram at Tank Guys. Great shop and their customer service is outstanding. The ram is $277 instead of $355 for the Corsair at it's current price.

If you have to go with NewEgg, then I would recommend the G.Skill ddr2-800 HZ sticks. They use the same ICs that the Team Group does, so they should OC just about the same.
 
remember with the newer Nvidia drivers its really easy to swap between SLI and dual videocard in windows without restarts.

you can still run dual display, then turn on SLI and run your game.
 
I(illa Bee said:
remember with the newer Nvidia drivers its really easy to swap between SLI and dual videocard in windows without restarts.

you can still run dual display, then turn on SLI and run your game.
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ooooh... sexy drivers! Now I must contemplate getting another 78gt and a 3007fpw... thanks for the info!
 
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