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Hey Guy's and Gal's Ive been away for a while Im still using my Opty and DFI Lanparty MB with SLi twin 7800 gtx's , what is the CPU these days that everyone is going with? AMD only BTW....Mother Board??
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Ok i know this is the cpu area but threw a v/c model at me dam Ive been away too long all this is new to me I'm still in the opty Nvidea,sli and ddr realmYou'll need new memory, AM3 chips only support ddr2 and ddr3.
Which you would rather use will decide whether you want an AM3 only mobo, or an AM2+ mobo that accepts AM3 chips. AM3 only means DDR3, AM2+ means DDR2.
Performance difference is minimal, but if you're looking toward the future i would go AM3/ddr3, personally.
Wanting to keep the 7800's in SLI means an nvidia chipset, which i'm not familiar with at all. Personally i would go with an ATI chipset and buy a new GPU, for $90 you can get something capable of 13k 3dmark06, and for $130 you can get 15k, both those scores assume a 3ghz dual core chip, roughly speaking. Even the $90 option (4830, or a 4850 on sale is even better) will be more then double the FPS of your 7800gtx sli combo.
The AM3 chips all seem to go to just short of 4ghz, generally 3.8 to 3.9, doubles tend to go higher then triples which tend to go higher then quads, but that is just a rule of thumb.
ic you hav ethe saphire which i love that mfg are you happy with it? or should i go to something else??That happened to me too, i was in the Athlon XP world before i built the one i have now, big change!
Sapphire is still good and XFX is also an excellent choice.ic you hav ethe saphire which i love that mfg are you happy with it? or should i go to something else??