New to forums long time Tom’s reader
1)My major question is will this system be a bottleneck to a modern adapter such a GTX460 or maybe a HD 6950 if were getting fancy.(upon further searching I guess its not but what about the DDR2?) Will I need to OC to stay relevant?
2) Is DirectX 11 worth spending $180 right now?
3) I’m not super interested in going beyond the 60fps mark but I do like running games at the best resolution available with visual effects turned up.
PSU: Cooler Master 650
MoBo: EVGA 780 SLI
http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=132-CK-NF78-a1
CPU: Core Duo E8400 3.0 (ZALMAN CNPS9500 Cooler)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037
RAM: Corsair XMS DDR2 PC6400 8GB Total
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145176
Video: EVGA 9800 GTX 2x6pin giant card
http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/512-P3-N871.pdf
and assorted consumer HDDs
LCDs: 1680x1050 23” and 1400x900 19” as an extended
Win7 64bit
Currently no Overclocking is going on. I tried clocking the RAM to 1000~1100 but upon trying to install Win7 PC continually blue screened/restarted. So I set it back to stock 800 haven’t fiddled with it since.
I can post better CPU-Z specs when I return home.
I built this system in 08. To my satisfaction it does everything I have needed it to do flawlessly for the past 2 years. Recently thanks to some Steam sales I put a few new games in my collection. Such as: Mass Effect 2, Black Ops, AVP, Civ 5, and possibly HAWX 2. Yes, I did have some major stuttering with Black Ops just like allot of users but with some config file fixes I was able to get it to run quite well at 1400x900. I am not a WoW player.
1)My major question is will this system be a bottleneck to a modern adapter such a GTX460 or maybe a HD 6950 if were getting fancy.(upon further searching I guess its not but what about the DDR2?) Will I need to OC to stay relevant?
2) Is DirectX 11 worth spending $180 right now?
3) I’m not super interested in going beyond the 60fps mark but I do like running games at the best resolution available with visual effects turned up.
PSU: Cooler Master 650
MoBo: EVGA 780 SLI
http://www.evga.com/products/moreinfo.asp?pn=132-CK-NF78-a1
CPU: Core Duo E8400 3.0 (ZALMAN CNPS9500 Cooler)
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115037
RAM: Corsair XMS DDR2 PC6400 8GB Total
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820145176
Video: EVGA 9800 GTX 2x6pin giant card
http://www.evga.com/products/pdf/512-P3-N871.pdf
and assorted consumer HDDs
LCDs: 1680x1050 23” and 1400x900 19” as an extended
Win7 64bit
Currently no Overclocking is going on. I tried clocking the RAM to 1000~1100 but upon trying to install Win7 PC continually blue screened/restarted. So I set it back to stock 800 haven’t fiddled with it since.
I can post better CPU-Z specs when I return home.
I built this system in 08. To my satisfaction it does everything I have needed it to do flawlessly for the past 2 years. Recently thanks to some Steam sales I put a few new games in my collection. Such as: Mass Effect 2, Black Ops, AVP, Civ 5, and possibly HAWX 2. Yes, I did have some major stuttering with Black Ops just like allot of users but with some config file fixes I was able to get it to run quite well at 1400x900. I am not a WoW player.