Advice on gaming rig

[sandorski]

When you say that you'll eventually add another 460, I'm curious When you are likely to do this?

Reason is that in 6 months it will likely no longer make sense anyway. So if that's the case chances are good you'll end up not doing it. Just something to consider regarding a SLI capable Mobo.

 

[videopho]

I went with Intel newest member, the i5-760 for my new 3d gaming rig.
The i5 smokes most of AMD in game benchmarking.
Newer games are being multithreaded than ever too as mentioned.

 

[thinbalion]

When you say that you'll eventually add another 460, I'm curious When you are likely to do this?

Reason is that in 6 months it will likely no longer make sense anyway. So if that's the case chances are good you'll end up not doing it. Just something to consider regarding a SLI capable Mobo.

I was thinking like three months, but that does raise a good point.

 

[thinbalion]

I've been thinking to just go 460 sli right away...

Would the 650 power source be enough?

 

[mfenn]

I've been thinking to just go 460 sli right away...

Would the 650 power source be enough?

You would probably want to bump it up to 750W for that. TBH though, if you're thinking about GTX 460 SLI, you should just get a GTX 480. The GTX 460 SLI will be slightly faster at lower resolutions, but it going to have overall more heat and power consumption, not to mention the usual SLI BS (profiles, potential negative scaling, microstutter, etc.).