So simply put I have $500 coming to me and its basically free money I did very little to earn it. I want to upgrade my current system and give my old setup to a long time friend who lost his PC when he got robbed.
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Note that everything not listed I all ready have psu/hdd etc. I just have a DDR2 setup so board upgrade = all new components
Currently I am looking at this.
Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231180
i5 750
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215
Cooling
Spire TherMax Eclipse II
The question is what is a good motherboard for SATA 3? When the SF-2000 / G3 comes out I plan to buy my first SSD then. Currently this peaks my attention here.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131620
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128425
My question is if I need to add a x4 card can I with the black PCI x16 slot? If so will it limit the GPU from x16 to x8 or x4 slowing performance? My next GPU will be a 460 or a 6850.
I have never needed to SLI and from what I hear its better just to get the best single GPU you can. Currently I run a GTX 260 192 core and it still maxes my games @ 1680x1050 22'' monitor.
1 question I did have on SLI/Crossfire. It says x16 in single and x8 x8 when using two cards, does 8x8 effect performance vs say a x16 x16 board? Also is the current SATA3 boards actually able to hit 500mb or is it like "dx11" cards that are really not powerful enough to play DX11 like the first generation was? If it is I would need a x4 slot for a adapter to get over the limits of the south bridge correct?
Thank you very much
*edit*
Note that everything not listed I all ready have psu/hdd etc. I just have a DDR2 setup so board upgrade = all new components
Currently I am looking at this.
Memory
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231180
i5 750
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115215
Cooling
Spire TherMax Eclipse II
The question is what is a good motherboard for SATA 3? When the SF-2000 / G3 comes out I plan to buy my first SSD then. Currently this peaks my attention here.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131620
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128425
My question is if I need to add a x4 card can I with the black PCI x16 slot? If so will it limit the GPU from x16 to x8 or x4 slowing performance? My next GPU will be a 460 or a 6850.
I have never needed to SLI and from what I hear its better just to get the best single GPU you can. Currently I run a GTX 260 192 core and it still maxes my games @ 1680x1050 22'' monitor.
1 question I did have on SLI/Crossfire. It says x16 in single and x8 x8 when using two cards, does 8x8 effect performance vs say a x16 x16 board? Also is the current SATA3 boards actually able to hit 500mb or is it like "dx11" cards that are really not powerful enough to play DX11 like the first generation was? If it is I would need a x4 slot for a adapter to get over the limits of the south bridge correct?
Thank you very much
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