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[Ingo Monk]

Specs for my new rig:

Mobo: Asus P5N32-E SLI Plus
CPU: Intel Core2 Duo E6600 (2.4 GHz, 1066 MHz FSB, 4MB L2)
Memory: 2GB DDR2 667MHz
Drives: WD5000AAKS (500 GB, 300MB/s, 16MB Buffer) x2 (1TB baby!!!)
Video: eVGA GeForce 8800 GTS 640MB
Audio: Creative X-Fi Xtreme Audio
Optical: 16x DVD/RW (reused from previous system)
PSU: Seasonic S12 Energy+ 650W
Case: Antec P182

Total cost ~$1500 (thanks to my fat tax return)

I don't get to play games that much anymore, but at least I know the ability to do so is there.  In Oblivion @ 1680x1050 with everything maxed, bloom, plus 8x AA I get 60+ FPS (60 FPS Max, VSYNC is on).  This is what happens when I buy my wife a Coach purse *grin*

[BornKrazi]

Sounds pretty nice, I wish I had that video card and I'd be set!

[mercy]

luna got me a new monitor and vid card for my birthday the monitoe is a acer 19 w lcd flat the vid card is a off the self pci from walmart

[Tobias Andrion]

Mobo: Standard compaq

CPU: AMD Sempron(tm) 3200+ MMX 3DNow about 1.8 gig

Memory: 2GB (not sure of speed anymore)

Drives: WD 250G - External, Maxtor 200G, Seagate 160G, Samsung 80G (not sure of the speeds but it does the job)

Video: eVGA GeForce 7950 GX2 (1Gig)

Audio: Yamaha DS1x Native Audio

Optical: HP DVD Writer 530r

PSU: 650W cannot remember manuf...but it glows a cool blue

Case: standard compaq

I just remodeled alot of the inards to fit my needs with what i already had

[Ruski]

that videocard run SLI?
ruskiface the pirate

[Tobias Andrion]

yeah it runs sli which means i could have a lot more vid mem if i wanted

[Ingo Monk]

Does the mobo support SLI?  You can't SLI a card unless the mobo supports it.  The neat thing about the card you got is that it's basically 2 cards slapped together.  In theory if you got another of the same card and set up a SLI system you'd have 4 video cores and 2GB of VRAM.

Not knowing your motherboard or chipset it looks like your bottleneck would be the CPU.  Sempron chips are like Intel Celerons, they're cheap but they don't have the bus speed or cache you want to have for gaming (which is what I assume you want to do looking at the card you have).  So IMHO the next item to upgrade would be the CPU.  FYI your Sempron has either 128kb or 256kb of cache.

[Tobias Andrion]

yes the mobo does support sli

[Ruski]

there are a number of motherboards out there that support dual sli (four video cards in two arrays) for when you need to support 16 monitors, cool stuff if you can afford it.

ruskiface the pirate

[Gilliam]

16 monitors?  !!! !!!

I NEED to play halo on 16 monitors, screenwrapped so it's all my view.....

oh how sweet that would be...

[Ruski]

you find a corporation to finance the build and I will put the hardware together for ya...
-ruskiface