they're just....too much...

[Nagasama]

well, got my new gts 512, slapped it in, and scored 12,468 3dmarks.
can you say, "bottleneck"? lol, its still a thousand points higher than my SLI 8800gt score.
now i am at an impasse. should i keep the card, in anticipation of games to come that will (hopefully) have SLI support? send it back? maybe get a quad?
then, if i had a quad, i would want the card back, LOL!
i dont think wifey is going to let me spend 500 more bucks for a new mobo and chip so i can get the "full potential" ("c'mon, honey...we NEED this!") of both of those cards. but i can tell you this, i dont think my 5000 really can handle all that ONE of them puts out, let alone TWO. with one card, framerates often dip a little (stutter) when i have vsync on and i am in heavy cover or there is loads of explosions/smoke. it doesn't ever leave 60 (my screen's refresh rate) when i have SLI on.
whaddya guys think?

 

[veg1992]

So what are you trying to say N-Dogg? You're getting a Quad? (Crosses Fingers, don't let it be Intel, don't let it be Intel..)

 

[thirdshiftdj]

Tough decision. Thats alot of hassle for an extra card. You'd probably get $150 for both mb and cpu to use for the upgrade.

 

[veg1992]

Also he can't get a Phenom on that board because of the lack of support from the BIOS, that means he's forced to spend a good amount of cash

 

[LeftEyeBlind]

Go behind her back. Everyone does it.

 

[veg1992]

Maybe try to push that 5000+ BE more, she's capable of it..

 

[veedubfreak]

750i FTW and q6600 You know you wanna.

 

[gurusan]

How about wait til the Q3 price drops and grab a 750i along with an E7200?

A C2D @ 3.8-4ghz will be plenty to keep it from being bottlenecked.

Also with your current setup have you tested games? Because 3dmark06 is quite misleading at times.

 

[Drizzt]

well, got my new gts 512, slapped it in, and scored 12,468 3dmarks.
can you say, "bottleneck"? lol, its still a thousand points higher than my SLI 8800gt score.
now i am at an impasse. should i keep the card, in anticipation of games to come that will (hopefully) have SLI support? send it back? maybe get a quad?
then, if i had a quad, i would want the card back, LOL!
i dont think wifey is going to let me spend 500 more bucks for a new mobo and chip so i can get the "full potential" ("c'mon, honey...we NEED this!") of both of those cards. but i can tell you this, i dont think my 5000 really can handle all that ONE of them puts out, let alone TWO. with one card, framerates often dip a little (stutter) when i have vsync on and i am in heavy cover or there is loads of explosions/smoke. it doesn't ever leave 60 (my screen's refresh rate) when i have SLI on.
whaddya guys think?

Now, normally bundles are bad. But i recently saw a 680i LT and a q6600 bundled together at tigerdirect for $299

If you can afford $300, and sell off your old boardn' chip for a few buck-a-roos you could take that root.

 

[hickfarm]

LOL you can't go Intel after building that AMD case.