I've recently come into some spare cash, so I'm in the process of building a completely new system. Since money isn't the driving factor, I figured I'd go (almost)all out. My initial thought was to go with an e6600 and and two 8800 GTXs in SLI. In my reading though, it seems that the CPU will be the bottleneck and I may not see any appreciable benefit from SLI as opposed to a single card. It appears that something like the ex6800 or qx6700 would be required to really let the system reach it's full potential. I hadn't really planned to go that route initially since I didn't feel that I'd see real benefits(from the quad anyway) for a while until the software catches up. So, my question/dilemma is this:
1) Go crazy now and get it all. Money isn't a huge issue, but I don't want to waste it if I'm not going to get something out of it.
2) Go with the e6600 and single card now and add the other components as needed.
3) Go SLI now and upgrade the CPU later as prices fall.
I'm inclined to go with #3 because I think they'll be a more appreciable drop in price in the CPUs later this year than there will be with GPUs. Just my hunch though.
This will be installed on an eVGA n680i MD with 2GB OCZ PC2-8500 SLI-Ready RAM.
Thanks!
1) Go crazy now and get it all. Money isn't a huge issue, but I don't want to waste it if I'm not going to get something out of it.
2) Go with the e6600 and single card now and add the other components as needed.
3) Go SLI now and upgrade the CPU later as prices fall.
I'm inclined to go with #3 because I think they'll be a more appreciable drop in price in the CPUs later this year than there will be with GPUs. Just my hunch though.
This will be installed on an eVGA n680i MD with 2GB OCZ PC2-8500 SLI-Ready RAM.
Thanks!