Quote from Jakg :

But theres no point, if you can only afford an 8600, then only buy an 8600 - if you then end up with a spare £100 you'd be MUCH better getting somethng like a 2900 Pro / 8800GTS rather than an 8600GTS.

SLi (imo) sucks - you have to pay more for a chipset that isn't neccesarily better, while getting more noise and a beefier PSU.

then ill keep the mobo, but the 2900 r like 350€ for 1 card....

The 2900 Pro is like £170, whereas two 8600GTS's are £220...

If you can only afford an 8600, only get an 8600, but why spend all the money on an inferior chipset (typically nForce chipsets aren't as good as Intel Chipsets for Intel CPU's) when something like a P35 is cheaper and better...

http://www.alternate.de/html/p ... 597&showTechData=true
HIS HD2900PRO= 240 €

sapphire hd2900pro 512mb=240€
http://www.alternate.de/html/p ... 047&showTechData=true
sapphire hd2900pro 1024mb= 300€
http://www.alternate.de/html/p ... 043&showTechData=true
is the 60€ for the double ram worth it?
this 1 is sweet but too expensive, ill check wut my discount says
http://www.alternate.de/html/p ... 777&showTechData=true
GeCube GC-HD2900XT-VIE3 = 333

IMO the extra vRam is handy, but not worth it, and i wouldn't bother with the 2900XT, as the Pro can overclock to it's clock with ease...

Are the HD2900 Pro's any good compared to the 8800GTS? Is the performance loss a driver issue, or straight up hardware limits? Are they worth getting and overclocking? Or is the 8800 still the way to go?
~Bryan~

So far the 2900 Pro is beating the 8800GTS 640 most of the time, and it overclocks past the XT, all while being cheaper than the 320.

Hopefully my next card (if i wasn't skint)

Ahh thank you. I can't be arsed to look it up. I've been focusing on Xeons and Gigagyte boards. Sucks what happened with your 7950 purchace, those cards got dirt cheap pretty quick. I was going to throw on a Quad, and an 8600GTS, but decided to drop it to a Dual Core and throw a GOOD DX10 card on. And don't say I'll regret it. A dual core is PLENTY for me.
~Bryan~

anyways: the following parts should arrive tomorrow:

intel core 2 duo E6850
4gig of patriot ram memory
gigabyte P35 DS3P
HIS hd2900PRO


i'm sooo happy,
i ordered the new card,so i hope its arrived

Isn't it a P35...?

Nice rig, if you feel like overclocking the Pro should do XT clocks with ease

Quote from Jakg :

Isn't it a P35...?

Nice rig, if you feel like overclocking the Pro should do XT clocks with ease

ill fix that typo
ill overclokc the card, my proccessor will olso be overclocked
ok, the parts that r really in:
the ram
the rest isnt in yet, so next week...
the ram is patriot PSD21G8002H ram 4 times
at a low price of 33€ per module...

tomorrow the mobo and cpu arrives, by the end of the week the vid card
i'm olso looking to buy a monitor:
benq t241wa
i can find it on the french site of benq but not on the dutch site, the shop has it on stock and thats the number...
so can any1 help me, like maybe it has other 'names'
its a 24" widescreen
http://www.benq.fr/products/LC ... 4&page=specifications

ok, since the vid card just wont arrive, my dad is going to the shop for the other parts, if the vid card has arrived its coming home, else i gotta wait

with old pc: +- 60fps when full details 35fps
new pc, 340 fps, with lowest settings, 230- 280fps with fulls fps
and its with an old card!! mine has yet to come weee
what should i set to get best details?
20 cars Fernbay black at start= 50fps
in race: 70 fps in crowd :s still good
and sometimes hangs around 150 fps

Link in my signature for you...

thanks!
all i hadto change was LOD reduction

ok, just installed my new vid card,
get 310fps when car out if sight 450fps
is gigabyte 2900xt
very nice

With what AA and AF settings?

everything is at best