Yes... another which card should I get - From 3x4850 to?

[RavenSEAL]

I'm still stuck in the good ol' days with RAID0 xD

But i've seen a lot of PCs with SSD. Honestly, since i don't need my PC booting up in 10 seconds, i'm happy with RAID.

179MB/s ftw!

 

[Spikesoldier]

4850's in Tri should be faster then a 6950 but your X6 is holding back any multi card setup.

4850's in Xfire = 5850

that may be true but op has 512mb cards.

 

[-Slacker-]

For a gaming rig, ssd's should only become an option after you've got everything else covered (really good video setup - as in at least a hd 6970-, a solid cpu - a i5 2500k or older i7- and an optimal amount of ram - at least 6 gb)

OP's rig is not bad, but he'd benefit a lot more from the above upgrades before it makes sense to get a ssd.

 

[mnewsham]

For a gaming rig, ssd's should only become an option after you've got everything else covered (really good video setup - as in at least a hd 6970-, a solid cpu - a i5 2500k or older i7- and an optimal amount of ram - at least 6 gb)

OP's rig is not bad, but he'd benefit a lot more from the above upgrades before it makes sense to get a ssd.

Unless it's a laptop, Im putting an SSD in mine (but i also have all the upgrades you mentioned)

 

[Castiel]

that may be true but op has 512mb cards.

True.

 

[Rhoxed]

For a gaming rig, ssd's should only become an option after you've got everything else covered (really good video setup - as in at least a hd 6970-, a solid cpu - a i5 2500k or older i7- and an optimal amount of ram - at least 6 gb)

OP's rig is not bad, but he'd benefit a lot more from the above upgrades before it makes sense to get a ssd.

if i dont use all 4gb of ram, how would 6gb help? a 6970 is worth getting an SSD for but not a 6950?

No offence, but im 90% sure i will notice a much better boost from an SSD than the upgrades you suggested.... nothing like a sidegrade to get things moving. ( i can agree the SB's being better procs.... but im not going through all the MB bull for a small bump in performance and the "older" i7's are no where near good enough to constitute a platform change) - not only that, a good SSD should outlast the other parts.... atleast most of my HD's have, so its something you can move to your next system.

back OT the Corsair and Crucial are both tempting, but im leaning towards the Corsair for the write speeds. Might have to up the budget a little

I have the GA-890FXA-UD5 with sata 6gb/s - this should be fine for an SSD yes?

 

[Borealis7]

wait two weeks and get the 6990. then forget about upgrading for 3 years.

 

[SolMiester]

I'm still stuck in the good ol' days with RAID0 xD

But i've seen a lot of PCs with SSD. Honestly, since i don't need my PC booting up in 10 seconds, i'm happy with RAID.

179MB/s ftw!

Actually SSD's dont do much for the boot process, as only the last part is the boot, the rest is BIOS checks etc.....RAID is good if shifting big files, BUT SSD's come into their own with random access, which is most of what you do with PC's

 

[TridenT]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...+580&x=19&y=34

Do it right the first time.

This is really the only option I can see as being a worthwhile upgrade to that setup.

 

[Castiel]

May i suggest this 580 from personal experience

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-429-_-Product

 

[happy medium]

May i suggest this 580 from personal experience

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...-429-_-Product

Jeez you could mug someone with that card its so big.:thumbsup:

 

[SolMiester]

if i dont use all 4gb of ram, how would 6gb help? a 6970 is worth getting an SSD for but not a 6950?

No offence, but im 90% sure i will notice a much better boost from an SSD than the upgrades you suggested.... nothing like a sidegrade to get things moving. ( i can agree the SB's being better procs.... but im not going through all the MB bull for a small bump in performance and the "older" i7's are no where near good enough to constitute a platform change) - not only that, a good SSD should outlast the other parts.... atleast most of my HD's have, so its something you can move to your next system.

back OT the Corsair and Crucial are both tempting, but im leaning towards the Corsair for the write speeds. Might have to up the budget a little

I have the GA-890FXA-UD5 with sata 6gb/s - this should be fine for an SSD yes?

I have the corsair force, and yes O/S response is much better than normal HDD, however lots of RAM & x64 is a huge step up also, x64 loves RAM!..As for SSD, seeing as you have the new interface, you should perhaps wait until the new sandforce 2000 drives are out, 50%+ more performance!
http://www.anandtech.com/show/4186/ocz-vertex-3-preview-the-first-client-focused-sf2200

 

[Rhoxed]

i have x64, and i rarely use 4gb of ram if ever... i have a system with 8gb ddr2 1066 and its never used more than 30%

i dont see the 580 as a good deal... the ram seems limiting if i decide to push 3 cards in the future, and the price tag is high (does AMD still have better scaling with the 6 series over NV?)

as for the SSD it seems better to wait if 50% more performance (even 20%) is achievable in the near future.

EDIT - i never mentioned what HD's i currently run - in main sig i run 2 Samsung 1TB 7200rpm raid 0 + 2x WD 500GB raid 0 and in 2nd rig i run 2 WD 640 blues in raid 0 + 2x WD 500GB raid 0