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Will my hardware be good for awhile?

cichy1012cichy1012 Member UncommonPosts: 347
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Will I be good for a while? Been along time since i upgraded. any suggestion would be great.

Bought

Asus M4N82 deluxe tri sli board

Phenom 2 x4 Deneb 945

Gskill 4 gigs of ddr3 8500 5-5-5-15

Antec true power trio 650 watts

8800 gt 512mb in  X 2 in sli <<<<<<<probably bogging me down.

Razer baracuda sound card

WD 640 gig hard drive 7200 rpm 32 mb cache.

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  • CleffyCleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414

    Everything in your system is modern so it should still be a year before you notice any impacts.  As far as the system, the 8800gt in sli is probably the thing most needing replacement.  I would replace both of them with just 1 of the GTX300 generation.  You shouldn't put it into sli unless you get a better PSU.  650watts is a good supply for an 8800GT in sli, but the GTX300 is gonna consume even more power.  The other thing I would do is add an SSD to your hard drives so you can get data off them quicker.

  • funkyclaudefunkyclaude Member Posts: 24

    Looks great, to me. At least as far as system requirements for gaming goes.

    Just curious...how well are the 8800GT cards working out for you?  I'm running dual 9800GT cards, myself, and this far I have been able to crank all of my games up to their highest settings with little problems concerning lag or frame-rate issues.  I wouldn't think that the 8800 would be that far behind it in performance.

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  • CleffyCleffy Member RarePosts: 6,414

    The 8800GT(G92) isn't that different then the 9800GT.  Its practically the same card.

  • funkyclaudefunkyclaude Member Posts: 24
    Originally posted by Cleffy


    The 8800GT(G92) isn't that different then the 9800GT.  Its practically the same card.

     

    Ahh, I see.  I was wondering about that because I've only recently gotten into the loop with the Nvidia cards after years of running cheap, low-end ATI cards (which just weren't cutting the proverbial mustard for me anymore). Which isn't to say that the 9800 was particularly expensive, but they have this far out-performed every other card I have ever used.  I'm really pleased with my current card setup at the moment.  I had no idea that DirectX 10 could make so much of a difference.

     

    Thanks for the info.

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  • hogscraperhogscraper Member Posts: 322

     My 1 gig 4850 OC card runs Crysis at full blast, same with every other game I own including GTA4. Not really a bad deal for 180 bucks a year ago.

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