is my cpu good enough for sli

[mrmasticator]

i have a athlonx2 5000be ocd to 3.1 win xp 32 bit with seagate barracuda 500 gb sata 2 2 gigs ocz platinum ram and i want to sli 9800 gtx+ will it work good?

 

[rolli59]

yes

 

[mrmasticator]

what i ment to say is will i see a big improvement over my single card. i have had people tell me that my cpu wont be powerful enough to run those cards in sli to see an improvement from a single card

 

[rolli59]

It all depends on your resolution.

 

[mrmasticator]

1920+1080

 

[rolli59]

The higher the resolution the more GPU bound games get. In your case at 1920x1080 you will see improvement how big is going to depend on the game.

 

[mrmasticator]

i have played crysis on high and i would say average frame rate was about 40 but when real action started it went doen to around 22 fps and far cry 2 on 1st from highest quality played mostly well around 45 fps but it went down to 21 steady at one point

 

[rolli59]

You might want to take a look at this. http://www.tomshardware.com/charts/gaming-graphics-charts-q3-2008/Crysis-v1-21,749.html

 

[megamanx00]

Yup, just depends on the games you're going to play. Even though you will see a big improvement you may still have to turn down some of the more CPU intensive settings. You can probably eek out a 3.3-3.4 with a vcore of 1.45 on that CPU. Personally though I find going past 3.1Ghz on my 5000 makes things a little warmer than I would like. On the other hand you may as well turn your PC into a space heater during the winter if you only want to heat a room and not the whole house . I'm just glad my current MB is listed by Gigabyte to be ready for AM3 CPUs ^_^