8800 GT to 260 GTX?

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

I was wondering how big a difference in gaming I'll see going from an 8800 GT to a 260 GTX. I've got a 1.8ghz@2.7ghx e4300 C2D CPU, 2x250GB Maxtor HDDs, and 2x1GB G.Skill RAM. Am I going to see a genuinely noticeable difference between the two gaming wise? Oh yeah, my monitor is a 19" LCD Widescreen with max resolution of 1440x900.

 

[Andrew1990]

At that resolution, I would wait for the next lineup of cards coming. I am running 1680x1050 fine with mine right now so I think you will be fine unless a certain game is struggling.

 

[AzN]

I would get a quad-core CPU before upgrading that GPU at that resolution.

 

[yh125d]

At that res your CPU will be the bottleneck before GPU

 

[TidusZ]

I'm assuming your using a cheap motherboard that wont let you up voltages, and that's why your only at 2.7.. You should be able to do 3+ no sweat with the e4300, I've had mine at 3150 for ~1 year at about 1.4v, and its a pretty mediocre chip. If you have a decent motherboard, overclock it more. And yea, at that resolution, that 8800gt is plenty good. A monitor upgrade to 22" or 24" might be in order.

 

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

Originally posted by: TidusZ
I'm assuming your using a cheap motherboard that wont let you up voltages, and that's why your only at 2.7.. You should be able to do 3+ no sweat with the e4300, I've had mine at 3150 for ~1 year at about 1.4v, and its a pretty mediocre chip. If you have a decent motherboard, overclock it more. And yea, at that resolution, that 8800gt is plenty good. A monitor upgrade to 22" or 24" might be in order.

Really? Do you have a tutorial on how to do this? I've had mine at 2.7Ghz for a while and maybe I should do a little bit more overclocking, since I've also just got a really sweet PCPower and Cooling 750w Silencer PSU.

 

[TidusZ]

there's really nothing to it, just read the overclocking core 2 duo post in the stickys if you don't understand all that stuff already. 1.4 volts is good and safe, dont run your ram faster than its specified (use a fsb:dram divider) and up the fsb until you get the desired clockspeed, and test for stability with orthos and coretemp. 3ghz is guaranteed on the e4300, except with really cheap motherboards like the asrock $50 one I had for a while.

 

[AtaruMoroboshi18]

Originally posted by: TidusZ
there's really nothing to it, just read the overclocking core 2 duo post in the stickys if you don't understand all that stuff already. 1.4 volts is good and safe, dont run your ram faster than its specified (use a fsb:dram divider) and up the fsb until you get the desired clockspeed, and test for stability with orthos and coretemp. 3ghz is guaranteed on the e4300, except with really cheap motherboards like the asrock $50 one I had for a while.

My mobo is the Biostar T-Force P965.

 

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[AtaruMoroboshi18]

Originally posted by: five
And now for something completely different.....

""This just in, 9 out of 10 people agree that out of 10 people, 1 will always disagree with the other nine." - Colin Mochrie "


That's pretty funny....
Dont bother asking........it was his line.....anyway...

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