Ready to SLI!!?

Ready to SLI!!?

I've bought a new PC about a week ago and am quite happy to say that I have finely finished installing all my applications etc????????? [:D]







The tower supports the Asus crosshair mother board, the AMD 5200+ CPU and 2G DDR2 800 RAM. I've got a Gforce 7600 GS 3d accelerator and was wondering if it is worth the money to go for another one to be able to use the Scalable Link Interface technology with it or should I get another VGA?

our school has that same exact computer, its a got blue on the outside though, not the silver... and also, there blue neon lights inside it, so blue neon lights up everywhere...not just that one panel...

Just buy a 8800GTS of GTX instead of SLI. I'm pretty sure that SLI isn't taken advantage of in many games, but correct me if I'm wrong. Also, you've should have went with the Intel Core 2 Duo series instead of AMD. I'm going from an AMD 4000+ to a E6600.

I've searched for the 8800GTS and found it to be way over my price range where I can literally double my rendering performance with the 7600GS if I just SLI for half the price.

As for the CPU if you look at the setup I've installed you?????????ll see exactly why I chose AMD (2000 MHz FSB) and the motherboard has a whole theme park of over clocking tools. Intel is also overpriced since 64 bit in relation with the performance there CPU?????????s.

The blue lights: Yeah mine does that with 19 blue LED?????????s (Crappy Camera to blame) and when switched off you can also recreate a scene of Close Encounters with the motherboard alone.

Damn thats hott... You know your geeky when you say that.

Originally posted by dj-dj

I've searched for the 8800GTS and found it to be way over my price range where I can literally double my rendering performance with the 7600GS if I just SLI for half the price.

As for the CPU if you look at the setup I've installed you?????????ll see exactly why I chose AMD (2000 MHz FSB) and the motherboard has a whole theme park of over clocking tools. Intel is also overpriced since 64 bit in relation with the performance there CPU?????????s.

The blue lights: Yeah mine does that with 19 blue LED?????????s (Crappy Camera to blame) and when switched off you can also recreate a scene of Close Encounters with the motherboard alone.

The clockspeed and FBS aren't the only things that count, Core2dou does more things per clock and is faster even at lower clock speeds, and intel is much less expensive in comparisson to AMD
and all intel CPU's are 64bit aswell they ar since the late pentium 4's.
(http://www23.tomshardware.com/cpu.html? ... &chart=166 the top are all Intel)

and for your graphics card,A dual 7600gs is equal to 7900gs so buying a single new one is in most cases less expensive, it don't have to be the best of the best just see what you do with it.
(http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_ ... &chart=378)

NVidea just released some budget models of there 8-series you might want to take a look at thosejust look at the 8600GT/GTS or 8500GT(http://www.nvidia.com/page/geforce8.html)

Or look at ati they have some great cards for not to much money, for example: the HD2600, this one isnt to expensive and still pretty good.
(http://ati.amd.com/products/Radeonhd2600/specs.html)

Originally posted by trainplane3

Just buy a 8800GTS of GTX instead of SLI. I'm pretty sure that SLI isn't taken advantage of in many games, but correct me if I'm wrong. Also, you've should have went with the Intel Core 2 Duo series instead of AMD. I'm going from an AMD 4000+ to a E6600.

You are right with the CPU's but the 8800 are a lot more expensive and SLI is just a way to give each GPU it's own job for example, 1 caculates the psychics and an other the textures.

sli is ok????????? too double your preformence in grafics. but like sobek told there are buget geforce 8 models and direct x is going to help alot.
but if you clock your CPU from 2.6ghz to like 3 or 3.2 that will help alot to. i got a geforce 7300 GS and a intel core 2 6600 at 3.15ghz and i got very desent grafics while gaming.

Originally posted by master of hardcore

sli is ok????????? too double your preformence in grafics. but like sobek told there are buget geforce 8 models and direct x is going to help alot.
but if you clock your CPU from 2.6ghz to like 3 or 3.2 that will help alot to. i got a geforce 7300 GS and a intel core 2 6600 at 3.15ghz and i got very desent grafics while gaming.

If you OC your cpu like that it has a shorter lifespan, if you up grade you card to a ?????????150 card and bring you CPU back to it's original state you should have the same or better result and a more stable system a 8500 GT is ?????????99 in NL so it isnt to expensive...

Originally posted by Sobek
If you OC your cpu like that it has a shorter lifespan

Thats why i have a watercooled system.
and that money to buy a 8500gt i can better use for a 8800 gtx/gts when the prices drop when ati brings there Radeon HD 2900 XTX on the market.

@ dj-dj:
if i look at the pic's of your pc you have very small fan for a duo core CPU

^AMD duel core. It's the stock fan. I'm definitely going to have to do something about that before I even try anything with my clock. Furthermore I am quite surprised with the stability of it and the GPU, no major temperature changes and it's is a lot faster than I'm used to. (That?????????s why I'm asking for advice I'm relatively new in having a machine of this potential)

Originally posted by master of hardcore

Originally posted by Sobek
If you OC your cpu like that it has a shorter lifespan

Thats why i have a watercooled system.
and that money to buy a 8500gt i can better use for a 8800 gtx/gts when the prices drop when ati brings there Radeon HD 2900 XTX on the market.

i mean it has to work harder than it's designed to do, and for the Graphix card i just try to say that you can get the same result without having to pay much...