Graphic Card Upgrade (ati gpu will work on nvidia chipset)

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Atanasov Goran

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Hi My name is Goran
I want to upgrade my graphic card, because mine doen't support DirectX 11 :(

My System:

CPU: AMD Phenom Q9950 2.60GHz
CPU Cooler: Coolers Master V8
Mobo: ASUS P4N82 Deluxe(latest BIOS)
Chipset: nVidia 980a
RAM: Kingston HyperX 8GB (4x2GB) DDR2 1066MHz
Graphic Card: 2x Gigabyte 9800GT 1GB GDDR3 (GV-N96TSL-512I)
HDD: 2x WD Caviar Green 500GB (raid 0)
PSU: Thermaltake Toughpower 850Watt

I am between:
ASUS ENGTS450 1GB
ASUS ENGTX560TI 1GB
ASUS EAH6850 1GB
ASUS EAH6870 1GB
ASUS EAH6950 1GB

what do you think?

also, will ati work on nvidia chipset?

Note: They are all asus because only asus gpu are compatible with asus EPU.
 
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Uhm... To match 2 9800GT's in SLI in things that are not DX11 (like WoW, UT3 engine games and XBox ports, mostly) you're very limited with a single slot option... I mean, to consider it a worthy update on your current platform. Basically, having Direct X 11 for gaming alone doesn't justify changing 2 9800GT's yet IMO.

To be honest, focus first on the CPU (like 4745454b said); maybe get a PhII X4 955 C3 stepping and run it at ~3.9Ghz or directly get a PhII X6 (Thuban) if your MoBo supports it. That will give you a few extra FPS's with DX9c (most games anyway).

Unless, that is, that you're also looking for other new features... UVD3, HDMI 1.4 support, Sorround or Eyefinity, etc; or the specialized new DX11 features: tessellation, SM5.0...
Uhm... To match 2 9800GT's in SLI in things that are not DX11 (like WoW, UT3 engine games and XBox ports, mostly) you're very limited with a single slot option... I mean, to consider it a worthy update on your current platform. Basically, having Direct X 11 for gaming alone doesn't justify changing 2 9800GT's yet IMO.

To be honest, focus first on the CPU (like 4745454b said); maybe get a PhII X4 955 C3 stepping and run it at ~3.9Ghz or directly get a PhII X6 (Thuban) if your MoBo supports it. That will give you a few extra FPS's with DX9c (most games anyway).

Unless, that is, that you're also looking for other new features... UVD3, HDMI 1.4 support, Sorround or Eyefinity, etc; or the specialized new DX11 features: tessellation, SM5.0 and DC (the multi threaded capabilities are also supported in DX9c - DX10.1). In that scenario, a 6950 would be the best Price/Performance video card for your system IMO. It would be a worthy upgrade from 2 9800GTs and perform a lot better (or give enough extra FPSs to justify it).

Cheers!
 
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Atanasov Goran

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This is my motherboards official page with full specs... could you tell me which CPU is better,
6-qore and quad-core cpu to choose one of them, depends from the money that i will have...

I don't know from AMD CPU's and which family is better, i was using intel all the time, and I change it just to try, when i was building this computer....
 

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I second that recommendation. ;)
 

Atanasov Goran

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thank's for your recomandations, i think that i will get the 1090T, i won't overclock it anyway...
and about the gpu, i think that i will upgrade it after 2 weeks, when i will got the money to do so, recomandations?
I am looking for asus graphic cards, because only asus gpu's are supported from Asus EPU...
i am between

ASUS ENGTX560TI 1GB
ASUS EAH6950 1GB

probably i will go nVidia, but what do you think?
 
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