Masques
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The upgrade itch has set in and I'm wondering what hardware I should pursue...

I'm either going to upgrade my CPUs or get a new video card. My current parts are: 2x Opteron 246 (2Ghz) CPUs and 2x EVGA 7800GTs

I'd like to get 2 dual-core Opterons (most likely 275s) or a Geforce 8800 based card. In either case the cost is going to be ~$500 - $800.

What would you do?
majorassult
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what kind of psu do you have?
[n00b]Tyler
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ffs u have a 7800 GT and u are buying a 8800, and im thinking im making a wrong chioce buying a 8800 when i have a 6600

if i were u i would wait and see some reviews on the card.

Last edited by [n00b]Tyler (2006-11-17 12:50:47)

unnamednewbie13
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Your CPU's are fine. Your video cards are fine. Unless you're rolling in cash, wait till Q3/4'07 or just '08, and then slap together a new system entirely. If you must get an 8800, wait until games are out that actually take advantage of all its features.

How much memory do you have?

[n00b]Tyler wrote:

ffs u have a 7800 GT and u are buying a 8800, and im thinking im making a wrong chioce buying a 8800 when i have a 6600

if i were u i would wait and see some reviews on the card.
Reviews on the card in both incarnations are currently all over the internet.

Last edited by unnamednewbie13 (2006-11-17 12:54:44)

Masques
Black Panzer Party
+184|7176|Eastern PA

majorassult wrote:

what kind of psu do you have?
600W

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Your CPU's are fine. Your video cards are fine. Unless you're rolling in cash, wait till Q3/4'07 or just '08, and then slap together a new system entirely. If you must get an 8800, wait until games are out that actually take advantage of all its features.

How much memory do you have?
4GB
Bell
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+362|7003|UK

unnamednewbie13 wrote:

Your CPU's are fine. Your video cards are fine. Unless you're rolling in cash, wait till Q3/4'07 or just '08, and then slap together a new system entirely. If you must get an 8800, wait until games are out that actually take advantage of all its features.
Agreed, or wait for ATI's next to do a good comparison, by then various versions of the 8 series will be out, cheaper 8600s, ultimate 8950's or whatever they descide to name them.  Like unnamednewbie13 said, wait till September 07, intel will be releasing a much improved (apparantly) Quad processor, eventhough quad just came out but apparantly theres room for improvement, as always.  Amd I would expect to have something done by then now to get back at intel.

With the system u have atm, justifying these upgrades is difficult, yes you could of course always improve what you have, but the improvement compaired to cost wouldnt make sense, atleast to me

Wait for intels 80 core bad boy

Martyn
majorassult
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No need to upgrade.  If you really want to tho.  I would do what Bell said to do and wait to see the competition of ATI.

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