Need help choosing upgrade path

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Gawd
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The rig in my sig is good, but as Christmas is coming I need some advice for an upgrade. Which of the following 2 choices would be better:

1. Upgrade to a E6300 and a new mobo.

or

2. Upgrade to a 8800gts and a X2 4800 (2.5ghz) 65nm.

My overclock on my X2 3800 won't go any higher than 2.25ghz. I understand that the E6300 overclocks like crazy, so that would be awesome.

Please help me. Thanks!
 
I'd go with the second option and some more ram. Do you really need the new card though the 7900gt is still pretty good. :confused:

My 6800GT can still keep up somewhat, however I think and upgrading is coming soon.
 
reins said:
I'd go with the second option and some more ram. Do you really need the new card though the 7900gt is still pretty good. :confused:

My 6800GT can still keep up somewhat, however I think and upgrading is coming soon.
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Well, I play oblivion mostly, and the 7900gt is pretty slow in there. I was thinking of just upgrading the CPU and getting another 7900gt 512mb, but i'd rather get a 8800gts for $480 than another eVGA 7900gt 512mb for $400 (yes that's what they cost because they are very rare).

Thanks for the ideas guys.
 
Well, I just found that tigerdirect.com has the eVGA 7900gt 512mb in stock for $304.99. So, which of the following options would be better:

1. Buying a 8800gts.

or

2. Buying another 7900gt 512mb and waiting for the 8900 series.

Thanks!
 
Since you want better gaming performance, get the 8800GTS, and sell the 7900GT. 2.25Ghz? really? thats it?!?! wow... wth, lol. I get 2.6Ghz out of mine :confused: I feel ur pain, lol.
 
I'd say get the 8800gts, in all the tests I looked at it beat 7900gt's in sli in oblivion, although they were not the 512's only 256's.
 
8800. Then, wait a while until you have enough, and blow it on higher-end hardware then.
 
Alright, then that's what i'll do. And to enginurd, yep, 2.25ghz is the max stable I can get it to. I think that it's a mobo issue, though.
 
Maybe you should try to do a little more fiddling to figure out what exactly is holding you back in terms of your o/c. With that in mind, if you were to go the c2d route, I'd highly recommend the e6400 over the 6300, since you'll probably run into similar issues with overclocking, since the 6300 has a low multiplier and you gotta know what you're doing (both in actually doing it and picking the motherboard) to allow you to get to that high of fsb's. It really sounds like you can squeeze more juice into what you have, without having to blow out money, even if it isn't your's. And in terms of going sli, I'd probably think hard about how much I could sell that existing one for, seeing how it costs so much to get another to do sli. It really doesn't sound worth it to sli that card at all is what I'm getting at. You'd be better off selling it and getting some other sort of 7900gt/gs/7950gt etc.
 
Maybe you should try to do a little more fiddling to figure out what exactly is holding you back in terms of your o/c. With that in mind, if you were to go the c2d route, I'd highly recommend the e6400 over the 6300, since you'll probably run into similar issues with overclocking, since the 6300 has a low multiplier and you gotta know what you're doing (both in actually doing it and picking the motherboard) to allow you to get to that high of fsb's. It really sounds like you can squeeze more juice into what you have, without having to blow out money, even if it isn't your's. And in terms of going sli, I'd probably think hard about how much I could sell that existing one for, seeing how it costs so much to get another to do sli. It really doesn't sound worth it to sli that card at all is what I'm getting at. You'd be better off selling it and getting some other sort of 7900gt/gs/7950gt etc.


All in all, if you've got the money coming to you and it must be spent, the 8800 is probably the best idea. That and maybe a different motherboard if you know that's holding you back, or maybe better cooling, or even some thermal compound and redoing that.
 
Believe me, i fiddled with it for about 6 hours that other day, and I couldn't get it stable, and when I got the overclock stable, the Ram was unstable, so I said screw it. I'd rather get a new processor that runs cooler and hopefully overclocks better.
 
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