Streamlining my PC...

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About a year ago, you guys helped me buy all the components for my new rig and I am not dissapointed with my purchase in any way. I am not ready to upgrade or update just yet but the latest games are giving me a bit of a headache and I was wondering if you guys would be willing to help me streamline my rig w/o overvolting and/or overcloacking as must games don't like O/C rigs (ie: Crysis, GRAW 2) or I am doing something wrong. At any rate, I prefer NOT to O/C but would be willing to try it for kicks.

so far this is what I have:

Ultra aluminus Case
2 120mm Fans
600w thoughpower PSU
EVGA 680i SLI Mobo (With latest Nvidia drivers)
Intel E6300
OCZ 2GB DDR2 1066mhz SLI RAM
(2) BFG 7800GTX O/C cards in SLI (Nvidia 163.75 drivers installed)
Seagate 400GB HDD 7200.10 16MB cache
CD/DVDRW

Basically, I am running my BIOS with AUTO settings and the only thing I have done is change the voltage on the OCZ RAM from whatever AUTO was to 2.1v so I would need to know what else I can do in the BIOS or anywhere else to help my computer run better with the latest games. I am looking more for performance than eye candy.

Thanks
 
You have DDR2-1066 RAM but aren't OCing that E6300?!?!? :confused:

Is your CPU usage at 100% while gaming? If so, you need to OC your CPU. Otherwise, you just need a new vidcard. What resolution do you game at? You most likely just need a new vidcard. Wait for the 8800GTX replacements or pickup an 8800GT unless you have a 24" LCD or higher.
 
enginurd said:
You have DDR2-1066 RAM but aren't OCing that E6300?!?!? :confused:

I have tried taking my E6300 to 1500QDR (2.625ghz) and some over volting but in games like Gears of War or Crysis, the system becomes so unstable is not even playable that I figured I could do something else.

Is your CPU usage at 100% while gaming? If so, you need to OC your CPU.

You know, as dumb as this sound, I haven't really check this out but I'll do so right now to see.

Otherwise, you just need a new vidcard. What resolution do you game at? You most likely just need a new vidcard.

Usually I try the 22: LCD widescreen resolution which is 1680x1050 but if not, I have to lower it down a notch or two until I can play the game stable enough to continue w/o major lag.


Wait for the 8800GTX replacements or pickup an 8800GT unless you have a 24" LCD or higher.
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I guess that 2 7800GTX would be able to get close to an 8800GTX performance but I guess I was wrong.

Can I use the 8800GTX with windows XP or do I need to upgrate to vista as well? if so, I rather do something else as I don't plan (really is more that I don't want to) to upgrade to vista until the OS has become more stable with the drivers and everything.

thanks for the input.
 
Unless you go with two of those 8800GT cards, I'd still wait for the GTX replacements, lol.
 
Ok, so, without spending more money on vid cards yet, would I be wasting money or not doing much if I were to get a Quad core and dump my E6300... would that be a good investment?

Doing both right now is not a sound advice since I'm on a tight budget at the moment.

Thanks
 
Switching to a better vid card would be a much better investment than a quad core CPU. You'd probably get much better performance by OCing as opposed to getting more cores. You say that games don't like OCing. That means you aren't doing it right. You should read up on some of the OCing guides about how to get things to work stably.
 
I went to the O/cing forum and read up on the STICKY post but it got me a bit confused as there is really no guide for my set up. Jimbean21 was able to get it to 3150mhz stable with the same setup I have but I can't quiet make how he did it... perhaps I was looking at the wrong forum? can you guys point me to the correct forum I should be looking at?
 
Just keep searching and reading the various threads in the OCing forum.
 
Ok, I just went ahead and installed the new EVGA bios P31 so I had to reset my BIOS to default, everything went well and after the POST and getting to windows, I went to Gears of WAR.

Checking on my G15 keyboard (where I can check percentages of usage for CPU & RAM), after starting the game, my CPU is peaking at 98% to 100% and my RAM only 50%, unfortunately, I can't see what my 2 video cards are doing but something tells me that my CPU is bottlenecking here.

I'll see if I can get in touch with Jimbean21 to see if he can help me with the O/C of my rig while I continue to read on.

Thanks folks
 
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