The story of my new build.... a l

[Deleted member 4644]

So, I bought an 8800GT 10 days ago, and dropped it in my old 939 rig. It was awesome, but I felt like I needed more. A few of my games, including the UT3 demo, and BF2142, did not play *perfectly* at 1920x1200.

So, I got another 8800GT, thinking I could use my evga nforce 4 mobo for SLI.

Whoops. Doesn't work.

After spending days messing with it, I just cant get my old mobo to work with two 8800GTs.

So I traded someone here my 4200+ + mobo + 2gb DDR Ram for his new EVGA 680i SLI board.

And I got 4GB of DDR800 ram for $100 from hot deals. I also got an E6750 for $200 from newegg.

So... I just dropped about $800 on new parts.

Will I regret this $800 when Penryn and the 9800 Nvidia cards come out in say.. 6 months or less?

All I want to do is play Crysis, COD4, UT3 etc at high settings.


Edit: I feel a little bit better because I just saw a Best Buy ad with a $2000 computer that is Q6600, 8800GTS, and 2GB Ram.

How can people pay so much?!?

 

[Roguestar]

Sounds like a decent upgrade. You'll always regret it seeing as new parts come out anyway, but remind yourself that you've saved a load of money just by buying components instead of a pre-built PC. You can also take solace in the fact that your system should now comfortably run all games out for the next year or so.

 

[ancalime]

That's a nice setup. And yes, Best Buy prices are through the roof most of the times..

 

[Arcanedeath]

You did fine and you should be able to drop in a Penyrn if you really want to when prices are reasonable, may want to look into good cooling for the Quad tho.

 

[jkresh]

Outside of media encoding and anything sse4 enabled (also overclocking) penryn isn't that much faster clock for clock (and you may be able to use a quad core penryn in your board depending on bios updates). Whatever the next high end card is will be faster then your 8800's and probably a lot better in dx10 but also more expensive (and if its within 3 months and you got evga you could always step up).

General rule for upgrading is to upgrade when your computer is too slow to do what you want, then not to worry again until it's too slow (though if you know something is coming out in 1 month then wait) otherwise you are always going to be waiting for the next new thing.