Gtx 580 system advice

[Syrus52]

Hi, I'm new to these forums, so hopefully this is in the right place.

I was planning on building a new Sandy bridge system, but this problem with the chipset arose just before I recieved most of my components. Basically all ive got so far is my 580 graphics card.

I am not keen to buy a 1155 board until the problem is sorted which I've heard could be as late as may.

My current system is an Asus M3A78-EM with an old Athlon 5000+ and 4g DDr2 800 ram.

So my question is if I was to maybe grab a cheap phenom II X4 and put it in with the GTX 580 would I get any decent performance, or would it not be worth the trouble with the old board and ram, and just wait until sandy bridge is solved? or any other thoughts? I hate to see my 580 just sitting there...

Hopefully that wasn't too long winded, thanks for any advice.

 

[mnewsham]

buy a motherboard on amazon...?

 

[DaveSimmons]

You'll get some good use out of the GTX 580 even with your 5000+, try that first.

 

[Davidh373]

Keep the 1155... put all your HDDs on the SATA III ports..

 

[Syrus52]

Thanks for the replies, I figured the 5000+ would bottleneck the hell out of the 580 that it would be hardly worth installing it, but I'll give it a go.

I don't actually have the mb or cpu yet, the order got cancelled because of the problem, I guess the shop pulled them, so I'd have to decide to order another one.

I was building this system to use Nvidia 3d vision too, the monitor should be here any day. Would the performance from the 5000+ or the phenom be good enough for it? atleast until I can decide where I'm going to put my money for my full system.

 

[BTRY B 529th FA BN]

Just avoid the funky ports. Read this article and decide what to do:

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4143/the-source-of-intels-cougar-point-sata-bug

"My recommendation is to try to only use ports 0 & 1 (the 6Gbps ports) on your 6-series motherboard..." - Anand Lal Shimpi

 

[mfenn]

Yeah, I would buy 1155 if you can find one on sale. If not, you really have three options:

• Keep using your current setup and replace it with Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer in April (cheapest, lowest performance)
• Buy a cheap Athlon II X3, mobo, plus the memory, PSU, HDDs, etc. that you would have otherwise bought anyway. Swap just the mobo and CPU out when Sandy Bridge or Bulldozer hits. (You're paying about $140 for something that will be used for 3 months, better performance, can upgrade most of the system to newer technologies)
• Buy an i5 760 + 1156 system and be happy (no wasted money, good performance, no need to upgrade again)