Help with new graphic card

[salabarria]

ok i want to upgrade my system... i currently have a xps 630 with a e8500...4gb and dual 9800gt's i want to upgrade my graphics to something much faster than my dual 9800gt's....my budget is 300-400

 

[salabarria]

oo i forgot my motherboard is a nvidia 650i =/..its a dell

 

[Maziar]

why ? arent dual 9800GTs fast enough for u ?
u have a very nice rig,i dont know why u want to upgrade,u have problems ?

 

[salabarria]

well i have a 24in monitor and the resolution is 1900x1200 and i play games like crysis, gta iv, call of duty, basically all the new games out there and i need something more powerful to run the games

 

[shiftstealth]

Single gtx 280-285 is around that budget. You could pawn off the 9800's and maybe get a gtx 295

 

[salabarria]

well i was thinking about getting the gtx 285 then using one on my 9800gt's as a physics accelerator because i heard you can do that with the new drivers.....and also would a gtx 285 be much better than dual 9800gt's

 

[Maziar]

For that res go for either HD 4870X2 or GTX 295,with my config in sig,i can max out every game out there

 

[salabarria]

but on my motherboard the gtx 295 wont work for my motherboard because my motherboard would bottleneck it

 

[Maziar]

Who said that ?!
Your motherboard has PCI-E 16x slot which supports PCI-E 2.0 cards,PCI-E 2.0 and PCI-E 1.0 dont have alot of difference in performance,so dont worry

 

[salabarria]

oo ok thankss

 

[Maziar]

No problem