8800 GTX/DX10 upgrade questions...

I have a P5N32-SLi mobo, C2D E6700 and am looking to upgrade to an 8800 gtx. I have a PC Power and cooling 750 silencer power supply. Is there anything that would prevent me from doing this, or anything else I am overlooking?

Thanks!!

on a side note. I just picket up that card and it works fine with my Antec 550watt psu (50 bucks now at Compusa).


It pulls 2,000 fps in the game I play most..... which gives me an advantage, though I don’t know what yet, since it lags the entire server.

Also Oblivion plays very well @ 1600x1200 inside and out... no lag what so ever, and all graphics turned up.


8800gtx is awesome. I purchased it w/o mail in rebates at compusa (evga) for $450 + $45 1 year warranty. Compusa's policy is: If during the warranty period, if the card becomes damaged you can:
1.) Get a full refund minus the warranty
2.) Exchange it for another card in equal pricing range.

The card was $599 - $50 holiday discount special, and $100 sale discount. Couldn’t be happier.

AGP 6800gt. I play sof2 (quake 3 basicly).

Oblivion did not run on this card... though it runs fine at reduced image quality on a 6600oc.

I can maintain 150fps on CD2 at max settings 1600x1200...
but it cracks me up i can uncap my FPS and watch it hit 2,000fps in Solider of fortune 2.

omg you are such a lying a$$hole. the only 8800gtx that compusa offers is the BFG for 649.99. LINK

150fps in cd2? yeah, doubt it.

and what antec 550 watt power supply that costs 50 dollars are you running your gtx off of? give the full name. heres a link to all of the antec power supplies that compusa offers ... LINK. the cheapest one is 45 dollars and is a 300 watt. the cheapest antec 550 watt ps is 130.

comp usa does NOT carry evga cards. make sure that when you lie, you lie well. one of my best friends works at compusa. lets be serious now. you did not lie very well at all. and dont try to say that you got the power supply as an open box item cuz they only do 15% off on open box items. 130 - 15% does not equal 50 dollars. never has. never will.

2000 fps in sof2? how about a screen shot with fraps running so we can see for ourselves. i highly doubt that you get such a high frame rate, considering not even a week ago you said that all games are capped at 30 fps. and while you're at it, keep fraps running and snap a screen shot of cd2 and show us that too. and dont try to doctor the pic.

back to the OP the only thing that could hold you back would be your case as the GTX's are very Big but if you have a decent sized case it shouldnt bew a problem

I do too cause I dont buy online, so I got to be timely. I purchased all my parts about about 10% above Newegg, which isnt bad (works to about $10 bucks more)


Locally: e6600 $330
oZC 2gig 55510 : $150
2x 500gb maxtors : $169 (each)
GB S3 mobo: $149
BFG 8800 $449.99 (plus 1 year free product upgrade)
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with the system you have there is NO WAY that an antec power trio will run your computer efficiently. the video card by itself can use up to 22 amps (264 watts). that is half of your total power supply. either you're retarded or you are lying about what video card you have. maybe you are just lying in general about your entire rig.

when did you buy the "bfg" "evga" 8800gtx? give me the exact date so i can see if you are lying or not.

LambofGod doesnt know what the **** he's talking about, that Antec is plenty, i use a PC power and cooling 750 and i have plenty of room to spare on power originally i had an enermax 1000W but that piece of XXXX burned out about a month after i bought it while that was out i used this cheap 500 Watt PSU i have and it ran all my stuff fine and i have:

2 Raptors
eVGA 680i
eVGA 8800GTX
C2D 6600 @3.2
X-FI Platinum
2 DVD burners
a 100 dollar keyboard
a 50 dollar mouse
a 15 dollar joystick
like 30 billion fans

now i use a PC power and cooling 750 Watt PSU, its orange. and it works good

What are you using to report 2,000 FPS? I imagine your FPS counter is built into the game. I use FRAPS and the highest I've seen it report to is 999.

I know how it is posting at work, but man you got to get your 88's straight!

I would try running it with FRAPS to see what it reports. There's no gaurantee that the in game counter is reporting correctly either. It might be an interesting experiment to see them both in action. I wonder if I still got that game sitting around somewhere.

All this coming from the same guy that was talking so much smack about the 8800GTX just the other day

Be sure to take everything this guy tells you with a grain of salt as he typically just likes to troll and screw with people and cannot be trusted for reliable information at all .

Even though we have seen Zero DX10 benchmarks on the G80 series

Best of all his brilliant response to my Oblivion pics Oblivion on my system at 1280X1024 4XAA 16XAF+HDR all in game settings 100% maxed out plus driver settings are on high quality.

Get off the dial up moron.

Oh hell so that must mean the 8800GTX will suck in DX10 fo sho! :roll:

:roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll: :roll:

So you still want to listen to this TROLL? :lol:


If you want to see the rest of the whacked out crap this TROLL has to say then here is the thread. Oh and best of all when he finally has enough of getting owned by everyone he suddenly decides that he was only joking around :roll: so dont listen to that bullsh1t either.

http://forumz.tomshardware.com/G80 [...] sc-50.html

LMFAO you saw that thread to?

Comptia Just STFU already. Any and everyone with an IQ of only 30 could figure out your nothing but a TROLL.


You have been both Owned and Exposed in this thread so my advice to you would be to tuck your tail between your legs and kindly find your nearest exit.

Hurray. Fast response. Are you going to keep it up cause your comments are really worthless, and its not nice to hijack a thread...... well, actually this tread is kinda off topic, so I guess it doesn’t matter.


Considering your the only one posting spam about me, I would hardly call this worth while. Stop making these threads annoying, .... though humorous your posts are, they do not help the discussion.

As you can see from these pics there is no maintaining 150fps on COD2 even with the mighty 8800GTX With max settings:roll: The FPS are all over the place depending on the what you are looking at or how many enemies are around you.

The only time I ever saw 150fps was when I looked directly into the sky. There is a big diff in maintaining 150fps vs being able to look at a wall or the sky and seeing 150fps


Now we can all sit back and laugh hysterically as comptia rep desperately tries to defend himself the way he did in the other thread



















Dont know why this one didnt show fraps, well just so you know it was 93fps.



And just for the heck of it my system 8)

Comptia the reason you are nearing 2000post is the whole point of me exposing your trolling a$$ to tomshardware.com.

Unfortunately for a lot of noobs that come here looking for advice they often look up to people with lots of post here automatically thinking that the higher number of post=more knowledge which in your case simply couldn't be farther from the truth.

I don't want to see another poor noob member given false, crappy, and misleading advice from you any longer than necessary.

Your nothing but a TROLL, thats all you have ever been and thats all you will ever be.

I really really hope the admin around here end your sh1t asap.

I get asked that question more than you will ever know! I will take some more pics later and show you how I did it, it was really pretty simple 8)

They cool down that beast of a GPU by an additional 8c at idle and more than 10c at load 8) I idle at just 48c and load at 56c after hours of gaming 8) Thats with the fan speed set to 100percent using Ntune. However I was not getting these great results before without the fans under the card, no where near it.

My cases front is made out of a mesh so air flow is great. Here is a pic of how the airflow works in my case-

Yes why ?

Followed this link from the CPU forum, and damn are those nice. The one of the undergrowth reminds me of a hiking trip into a forest I did when I was younger. Except for the stone works, those screen shots look damn close to a scale model of reality.

No problem.

Took a look at the CoD2 screens, and I can't say they're as impressive. Might be your monitor is brighter, but those pictures seem too dark.

Oh yeah, HOLY SHIT is that CPU cooling device huge. Looks like some mechanical alien turd to send molecules/atoms of a certain kinetic level to another dimension or something. Bet it does its job very well.

I look forward to seeing those.

And those temps, at that level, seem reasonable enough. For my dated rig if it hits above fifty degrees C I start to worry. At load for yours, I wish it long life, certainly seems to be put to good use. Impressing we po' folk.

RobsX2

Your making me want to swap out my Scythe for the Tuniq Tower 120.. It's a good thing it'd take some work to find one in stock and I feel lazy.

Still the Scyth is a very efficient cooler able to hit some stable high speeds and cool temps.

http://svc.com/tuniq.html

One forty isn't too much. I spent a day with a homeless guy named Geronimo. He went through five forties (and a few other things) during the course of the day. Passed out once, and kept having to pee.

BF2, now there's the spirit. With luck in three to four months I'll finally have a system capable of playing that game.

Dude you make me feel bad

You know, I don't think I've ever had someone say that to me, and I'm not quite sure why you are now. Side affect of the wine?