Nvidia 680I and Upgrading

[WyldFyre]

I have a 680i right now and I am looking to possibly upgrade. With it I have an e6600 cpu and a Geforce 8800gts. Im thinking of upgrading either to a e8500 or a quad q6600. Will there be a real performance difference? Trying to decide if the price for performance would really be worth it. For the video card thinking of getting 2 nvidia 9800 gt to run SLI. Although still not sure. I have also heaard the Radeon 4850's are a good card to get.

Someone else was talking in another thread that the I7's are coming out and maybe to wait for those. Just not sure what to do. Any advice would be great. Thanks.

 

[nenforcer]

I was in the exact same situation about a month and a half ago. I decided to keep my E6600 Conroe and wait until after the Core i7 Nehalems are out before upgrading the CPU. I sold my 8800GTS 640 on eBay and bought 2 9800GT so I could try out the SLI for the first time.

After the Core i7 are I will consider upgrading my e6600 to a Wolfdale e8500 or e8600 but I don't think the Nehalem release will lower the prices any because they are already below the cheapest Core i7 except for the e8600.

I really don't plan to upgrade my CPU until next year anyways.

 

[WyldFyre]

What do you think of the SLI combo?

 

[nenforcer]

I am impressed with the ease of setup. nVidia wouldn't sell too many of them if it was too hard to get configured but it really is plug and play. I was finally able to play COD4 and I never did notice any microstuttering (as they claim) and I was able to jack up every setting to the max at 1600x1200.

Both of these new GPU's support CUDA and PhysX so I will be upgrade proof easily until Christmas 2009. I don't think there is any game coming out this Christmas that I won't be able to run. (FallOut 3, Alan Wake)

Supposedely nVidia is set to rename the Geforce 9 series Geforce 1XX GTX sometime this year before Christmas, probably later this month when Nehalem is officially released at Retail. I would hold off on any computer upgrades (video card or CPU) until all of this occurs since you've waited this long already.

I run Vista Ultimate SP 1 64-bit BTW and the reason I went with 9800GT SLI is because they are single slot solutions and I use one of my PCI 1X for a HDTV Tuner card. Otherwise I could have fit 2 GTX 260's but it would have cost quite a bit more. I have an ASUS P5N32-E SLI 680i motherboard.

 

[WyldFyre]

Decided that I am going to get a GTX 260 then when the price drops on them some get another for sli and then upgrade to a q6600. Hate to just completely abandon my 680i so soon. Its been a good board.