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Will Dual 2.8 DC Xeon's bottleneck a 9800GX2?

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PsychoSaysDie   08-20-2009 at 05:54:08 AM

According to Antec's power supply calculator it will only chew up 512w's and i have a 650W PSU so i'm not worried about power. What i am worried about is will my processor's bottleneck the card?

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one-shot   08-20-2009 at 11:23:47 AM

Bottleneck? Or cause a minor CPU limitation?

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megamanx00   08-20-2009 at 07:54:15 PM

Depends on the game. Really though if you're gonna buy a new 9800GX2 you may want to reconsider simply due to the driver support, or rather lack there of. If you have a crossfire board it may be cheaper and better to get two 4850 1GBs or two 4870s instead.

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zipzoomflyhigh   08-20-2009 at 08:00:27 PM

What happened to the i7 920 at 7ghz and the 6 4770's in dual tri-fire? ROFL

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one-shot   08-20-2009 at 08:52:05 PM

zipzoomflyhigh wrote :

What happened to the i7 920 at 7ghz and the 6 4770's in dual tri-fire? ROFL



LOL, I'm wondering the same. His sig always changes with a diff PC parts.

------------------------------ Antec P182, i7 920 3.7Ghz @ 1.3V, Xigmatek 1283, Asus P6T X58, 3 x 2048MB OCZ Plat DDR3 1600 RAM, 2 EVGA GTX260 Core 216 in SLI, WD 160gb,320GB 1TB WD Black. Corsair 750TX. Acer 24" Monitor. Vista x64 Home Premium.
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PsychoSaysDie   08-20-2009 at 11:56:51 PM

zipzoomflyhigh wrote :

What happened to the i7 920 at 7ghz and the 6 4770's in dual tri-fire? ROFL




Sold it yesterday. :) Had planned on only selling the I7, board and memory but he wanted the whole rig. :lol:

Money burning a hole in my pocket is not a good thing.

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32GB SSD, WD Blacks In R0
Sapphire HD 5870's In XFire
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PsychoSaysDie   08-20-2009 at 11:57:54 PM

megamanx00 wrote :

Depends on the game. Really though if you're gonna buy a new 9800GX2 you may want to reconsider simply due to the driver support, or rather lack there of. If you have a crossfire board it may be cheaper and better to get two 4850 1GBs or two 4870s instead.




The Dual Xeon workstation doesn't have more then 1 PCIX so xfire or sli is kinda out. :)

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