Just picked up a couple of Sapphire 4780 1GB for $105 each at the egg.
They were listed as "open box", but there was a crap load of HD 48xx cards there, all priced really low. I figure with the impending release of the 58xx, newegg is just dumping off a bunch of inventory and they are probably new.
Running two C2D's now, both at 3.2GHz, one 2MB L2 cache the other 4MB. Running a 9800GT in one and an HD4830 in the other.
Are these cpu's going to cause a serious bottleneck for the 4870 1GB?
I'm trying to stay somewhat on a budget, and if I need to upgrade I thought maybe the E7500 for $119 (x 2) sounded reasonable.
Both systems have good overclocking motherboards, good ram and good enough power supplies. I was hoping to get closer to 4GHz, would that be better for the upgraded video cards? The E8600 is just flat out overpriced, I can get a decent AMD mobo and X3 720 in that price range.
Open to suggestions here, but remember if I upgrade it will be on two systems, so price is definitely a consideration.
They were listed as "open box", but there was a crap load of HD 48xx cards there, all priced really low. I figure with the impending release of the 58xx, newegg is just dumping off a bunch of inventory and they are probably new.
Running two C2D's now, both at 3.2GHz, one 2MB L2 cache the other 4MB. Running a 9800GT in one and an HD4830 in the other.
Are these cpu's going to cause a serious bottleneck for the 4870 1GB?
I'm trying to stay somewhat on a budget, and if I need to upgrade I thought maybe the E7500 for $119 (x 2) sounded reasonable.
Both systems have good overclocking motherboards, good ram and good enough power supplies. I was hoping to get closer to 4GHz, would that be better for the upgraded video cards? The E8600 is just flat out overpriced, I can get a decent AMD mobo and X3 720 in that price range.
Open to suggestions here, but remember if I upgrade it will be on two systems, so price is definitely a consideration.