Hi folks - Great forum you have here!
I need some help upgrading my system to support a pair of GTX 480's. I got a windfall and went for broke on getting a 2nd 480 to aid 3D Vision and general FPS.
Current setup is:
E8400 @4ghz
Asus P5Q WS
Samsung F1 Spinpoint
4Gb OCZ Reaper (pc8000)
2x GTX 480(one currently in use) :-(
CoolIT Domino ALC CPU cooler
Azuntech Forte 7.1
I embarrassingly discovered that my mobo can't run SLI without a hack - which I tried, but it kills 3d vision and is still a little buggy. My ancient but now damaged P35 board (GA P35-DQ6) ran SLI in 8x speed but it worked, and I thought we'd moved on, nvidia, silly me. Not keeping up to date with current cpu's/chipsets didn't bother me, as for gaming, the E8400 was up there @4+ghz.
Problem is nowadays I can only find one motherboard for sale here in the UK that I can still use in SLI, the Asus P5N72-T Premium. I'm worried that this would be going down the buggy rebranded Striker 2 route so I thought about upgrading to one of the new chipsets. This is where I need some help, I have had a look at the x8/x16 benchies and the best gaming cpu articles (very useful info - fantastic effort!) and am now trying to decide on either an i3 530 that can hit 4.4+ghz but with less gpu bandwidth or an expensive i7 930 x58 setup.
Am I correct in thinking the high clock speed of the i3 530 will boost the SLI scaling more than the dual x16 lanes of a lower clocked i7/x58 combo?
One other slightly seperate question - Does SLI boost 3d vision fps and would a game that doesn't scale very well in SLI scale better with 3D vision on , any experience? Can't seem to find any benchies on SLI vs single card with 3d vision enabled. Spose I'll know better when I get it up and running!
Thanks in advance for any info you can give
I need some help upgrading my system to support a pair of GTX 480's. I got a windfall and went for broke on getting a 2nd 480 to aid 3D Vision and general FPS.
Current setup is:
E8400 @4ghz
Asus P5Q WS
Samsung F1 Spinpoint
4Gb OCZ Reaper (pc8000)
2x GTX 480(one currently in use) :-(
CoolIT Domino ALC CPU cooler
Azuntech Forte 7.1
I embarrassingly discovered that my mobo can't run SLI without a hack - which I tried, but it kills 3d vision and is still a little buggy. My ancient but now damaged P35 board (GA P35-DQ6) ran SLI in 8x speed but it worked, and I thought we'd moved on, nvidia, silly me. Not keeping up to date with current cpu's/chipsets didn't bother me, as for gaming, the E8400 was up there @4+ghz.
Problem is nowadays I can only find one motherboard for sale here in the UK that I can still use in SLI, the Asus P5N72-T Premium. I'm worried that this would be going down the buggy rebranded Striker 2 route so I thought about upgrading to one of the new chipsets. This is where I need some help, I have had a look at the x8/x16 benchies and the best gaming cpu articles (very useful info - fantastic effort!) and am now trying to decide on either an i3 530 that can hit 4.4+ghz but with less gpu bandwidth or an expensive i7 930 x58 setup.
Am I correct in thinking the high clock speed of the i3 530 will boost the SLI scaling more than the dual x16 lanes of a lower clocked i7/x58 combo?
One other slightly seperate question - Does SLI boost 3d vision fps and would a game that doesn't scale very well in SLI scale better with 3D vision on , any experience? Can't seem to find any benchies on SLI vs single card with 3d vision enabled. Spose I'll know better when I get it up and running!
Thanks in advance for any info you can give
From what I saw it was the 4.4ghz+ clock speed of the i3 that had me intrigued not the price. But your right, I'll be bound whatever I do I'm sure, probably should go quad core as well, now that I'm upgrading. I'm sure more games will start to optimize for this.
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