OK currently got two identical gaming rigs with the specs as per sig, (mine and my wifes) Ive got a sum of money (around £1400) available in the next couple of weeks which could be spent upgrading these rigs. Unfortunately I cant wait for the new nvidia cards in february the money wont be available then 
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Trying to decide whether or not to combine the 2 existing GTX's in one system and put 2x8800GTS 512's in the other along with a new mother board PSU, E6850 Processor and extra 2gb of ram in both.
Im considering moving up to windows vista 64 as well
Any existing parts that are left over from the build would be put towards upgrading my kids pcs, so wont be making any money back on those parts.
This money is totally disposeable, but im not sure how far this would go towards allowing me to jack up the resolution in the likes of crysis and to cure some FPS issues I have at high resolutions in other games (lotro, x3, modded oblivion etc etc) I like to run games at 2048x1536, Current monitors are old high end 19" CRT's (one of which I fear may be on its way out )
My current rigs allows me respectable playability in crysis at 1280x1024 with all settings high and 4xaa under windows xp. The retail version of crysis seems to perform substantially better than the demo did on my systems.
My biggest issue is that I really dont like the fact that Id be spending a lot of money and using a year old GPU design... It really feels as if spending that much money I should be getting something "new" in the way of graphics cards to boost performance in new games. Two of the graphics cards are ones Ive owned for a year and the two new ones are die shrinks of the same card, and a lot of the money is being blown on power supplies and mother boards to allow two cards in one system... Id rather be spending the money on a single card solution allowing me to use my current power supply and mother board
.Trying to decide whether or not to combine the 2 existing GTX's in one system and put 2x8800GTS 512's in the other along with a new mother board PSU, E6850 Processor and extra 2gb of ram in both.
Im considering moving up to windows vista 64 as well
Any existing parts that are left over from the build would be put towards upgrading my kids pcs, so wont be making any money back on those parts.
This money is totally disposeable, but im not sure how far this would go towards allowing me to jack up the resolution in the likes of crysis and to cure some FPS issues I have at high resolutions in other games (lotro, x3, modded oblivion etc etc) I like to run games at 2048x1536, Current monitors are old high end 19" CRT's (one of which I fear may be on its way out
)My current rigs allows me respectable playability in crysis at 1280x1024 with all settings high and 4xaa under windows xp. The retail version of crysis seems to perform substantially better than the demo did on my systems.
My biggest issue is that I really dont like the fact that Id be spending a lot of money and using a year old GPU design... It really feels as if spending that much money I should be getting something "new" in the way of graphics cards to boost performance in new games. Two of the graphics cards are ones Ive owned for a year and the two new ones are die shrinks of the same card, and a lot of the money is being blown on power supplies and mother boards to allow two cards in one system... Id rather be spending the money on a single card solution allowing me to use my current power supply and mother board
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