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Im looking to upgrade my system. Im currently running 2 PNY 8800 GT cards in SLI mode. I have an Asus motherboard M2N-SLI DELUXE thats only pci express 16. Its not 2.0 which the video cards are. I run a amd 6400 x2 processor.
My question is would it be a better upgrade to a newer motherboard and cpu say like

ASUS M4A79T Deluxe AM3 DDR3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard

AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz 4 x 512KB L2 Cache 6MB L3 Cache Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor - Retail

and keep my current cards in sli? or upgrade the video card to an GTX 285?
I want to upgrade board and cpu and memory regardless. Is the upgrade on a card worth it.

Thank you

Message edited by cichy1012 on 07-14-2009 at 02:26:26 AM

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That's setup would be nice but that mobo i believe only supports cf so sli wouldnt work. So a gtx285 would work but i would recommend an ati card such as the 4870/4890.

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WHAT IS cf??

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http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6813131363

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cichy1012 wrote :

WHAT IS cf??

crossfire.... ATI's version of SLI

Reply to xc0mmiex

None of the good (in my opinion) AM3 boards will run SLI. The only boards that support AM3 CPU's and SLI are the shitty Nvidia chipset boards (which should be avoided at all costs).

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I personally would rather upgrade to a 4890 over the GTX260 because not only is it faster, but its a hell of an OCer.

Reply to rambo117

I would wait till the 8800GT SLI can't play modern games anymore on decent settings.
Then only I will upgrade, and maybe the DX11 card is already in stores

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