Say $600 for board and chip. I haven't owned ATI in ages and am only making
this change because the GeForce cards are going out on me. I'm looking for
recs on a board that plays nice with the 5850 card (a board that has PCIe
2.0 and is capable of upgrade path to a second graphics card in crossfire)
and I'm looking for a quad-core CPU.
So it's not bleeding edge but a board and chip in the same class as the
graphics card -- higher-end bang-for-buck soluton that will last thorugh the
next couple of generations.
thanks!
----- Original Message -----
From: <tmse...@rlrnews.com>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 13:55
Subject: Re: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
best is subjective... I mean, on what kind of budget? Best bang for the
buck may be an i5-750/p55 combo.
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-----Original Message-----
From: "Veech" <ve...@earthlink.net>
Date: Mon, 8 Feb 2010 13:33:40
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Subject: [H] Best board and chip going right now?
thanks Boz...
I have pretty much decided on getting the ATI 5850 graphics card at this
point. Now the question is, do I want to upgrade the board and chip while
I'm at it? If I decide to do so, I would really prefer to not have to
upgrade OS as XP seems to be working ok for me for now and I just don't
want
to have to hassle with reloading all my programs.. *sigh*
So based on going with the 5850 graphics card, what board and CPU is the
way
to go at this point? If I *have* to go to Windows 7 then I will, but I
just
want a quick fix at this point.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Veech" <ve...@earthlink.net>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 10:03
Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?
ok I forgot to mention that my budget is around $300, and I see the ATI
5850 is available for that from NewEgg, any opinions?
----- Original Message -----
From: "James Boswell" <torazch...@gmail.com>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Monday, February 08, 2010 02:16
Subject: Re: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?
the 8800GT has 112 shaders
the 8800GTS320/640 has 96 shaders
the 8800GTS512 has 128 shaders
the GTS250 has 128 shaders, and has had a die shrink so it's cooler and
the clocks are a chunk higher, it's the one to get if you want an
nvidia
card of that level IMO
OR look at a radeon 4890, which will be around the same performance
level (I think) as your pair of 8800GTS's were and use a hell of a lot
less power... or even a 5770, which is a little slower (10% or so) than
the 4890 but runs cooler and has DX11 support for whenever you
eventually get off of XP
On 8 Feb 2010, at 08:06:310, Veech wrote:
I'm thinking two of these 8800 GTs in SLI would work just fine..
opinions? Seems like they might spec higher than the two GTS cards
even
though they have 512MB RAM as opposed to 640MB on the GTS cards.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814143118&nm_mc=OTC-Froogle&cm_mmc=OTC-Froogle-_-Video+Cards-_-BFG+Technologies-_-14143118
----- Original Message ----- From: "Veech" <ve...@earthlink.net>
To: <hardware@hardwaregroup.com>
Sent: Sunday, February 07, 2010 23:28
Subject: [H] Replacing 2 Geforce 8800 GTS in SLI, what to get?
I had two Geforce 8800GTS 640MB PCI-E cards in SLI in my system which
was built about 3 years ago. About 4 months ago one went bonkers,
probably overheated, so I removed it and am now running with just the
other one. I play a lot of Team Fortress 2 online and after a recent
Steam update I was getting some strange artifacting in the game and
now am having trouble staying connected, and often the game and the
computer freeze and I have to reboot. Oddly enough, the card seems
to
work fine under all other conditions and apps such as internet, DVD
movie playing etc, but when playing TF2 online it goes nuts.
So I'm thinking it may be about to go and I should consider replacing
it. I haven't shopped for video cards in 3 years. I have an EVGA
nForce 6801 SLI board and Core2 x6800 2.93G CPU, running XP Media
Edition.
What would you folks recommend for replacement video cards? I would
probably stick with an SLI configuration unless a single ATI card
comparably priced would blow it away.
thanks!!
