Can i handle these?

[sandslasher4]

can a Dell Inc. 0M017G motherboard handle a GTX 260,280,285 or Radeon 4870 x2?
Processor-Intel Core2 Quad Q8200 2.34 GHz
Ram-8.00 GB (vista 64-bit)

 

[gkay09]

^ Yes it can handle these...
But the main limiting factors would be
1. your power supply that comes with the PC as these cards require atleast 500W for GTX 260, 550W for GTX 280/285 and atleast 650W for 4870X2...
2. Your Computer case as those above listed cards are pretty long and you should make sure it fits in your case...

 

[sandslasher4]

Thanks gkay09 really helped me out and i was planning to get a new case and psu for these cards just needed to know if motherboard and processor could handle them. THX

 

[smoggy12345]

Like I said, your cpu is too slow for anything over a GTX260. In fact I think the 260 will still be waiting for your cpu to catch up.

How exactly???

That is utter bull....i have SLI'd 8800's and i saw NO change from 2.5GHz quad to 2.9GHz Quad....as long as your game supports multi-CPU's you should be fine.

 

[jyjjy]

Just OC that CPU. Even on stock cooling you should be able to bump it up half a ghz or so I believe.

 

[smoggy12345]

How exactly? a 2.3ghz cpu cannot keep up with one fast card let alone 2 fast cards.

Tom's tests show that a 2.8ghz X2 7850 Kuma bottlnecked a single 4770 by a large margin when compared with a faster clocked quad core.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-4770,2281-12.html

a SINGLE 2.3GHz CPU IS going to bottleneck....and likely with a dual core also as one core has to be used elsewhere also, with quad its a different story.

Ive PERSONALLY expierinced this so argue all you want...

Show me a Test which shows a quad core botlenecking any card on a multicore friendly app.

 

[smoggy12345]

Most games only use 2 cores, so your trying to say that a 2.3ghz quad is going to push the same frames as a 3.5ghz dual core?

Most games support quad core these days...even CS:S supports quad core ffs...