I completed my first home build in April of Last year. Other then one huge problem, its been pretty stable and I am pretty pleased with the results. I wish I would have got a larger case, and I did ad another internal hard drive later.
Anyway, I always wanted to SLI, and I did it in this build, I think I regret it. Not long after I was getting tons of crashes, and after tons of hours of research and support, I came up with that my top PCI E slot was defective on my mother board. After figuring this out, they wanted 6 weeks to "warrenty" it. I coudlnt go 6 weeks without a computer, and I didnt have a spare laying around. I figured I would just continue on and not SLI and use my single Video card. I have little to no problems since.
I do find myself craving more perfromance. I was thinking of Just replacing the MoBo and going back to my oringal SLI idea. I was also thinking of upgrading my ram, but that would require me giong to 64bit vista, which up until now I have been pretty hesistant about doing. Maybe keep the same motherboard and get a new video card? I mean I have been really happy with my single 8800 so I am not sure.
What Can I do?
Here are my specs
Case -- Antec 900 Case
Processor -- Intel Core2Quad Q6600 Bx Core2Quad 2.4GHz@1066FSB
Motherboard -- XFX 680i LT
Cpu Cooler -- ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm
HardDrive -- Western Digital Raptor WD360ADFD 36GB 10000 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
Power Supply -- PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI NVIDIA SLI Certified (Dual 8800 GTX and below) CrossFire Ready
Memory -- OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Video Card -- XFX PVT88PYDF4 GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP
Media Drive -- Pioneer 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE
Operating System -- Windows XP
I can either
A -- Keep things as is
B -- Just Replace Motherboard and Sli my two 8800 gt
C -- Replace Motherboard, go up to 6gigs or 8 gigs of memory, and upgrade to Vista
D-- Replace to single video card
E -- Your idea which might be better then all of mine.
Thanks for reading this, I hope someone can help!
Anyway, I always wanted to SLI, and I did it in this build, I think I regret it. Not long after I was getting tons of crashes, and after tons of hours of research and support, I came up with that my top PCI E slot was defective on my mother board. After figuring this out, they wanted 6 weeks to "warrenty" it. I coudlnt go 6 weeks without a computer, and I didnt have a spare laying around. I figured I would just continue on and not SLI and use my single Video card. I have little to no problems since.
I do find myself craving more perfromance. I was thinking of Just replacing the MoBo and going back to my oringal SLI idea. I was also thinking of upgrading my ram, but that would require me giong to 64bit vista, which up until now I have been pretty hesistant about doing. Maybe keep the same motherboard and get a new video card? I mean I have been really happy with my single 8800 so I am not sure.
What Can I do?
Here are my specs
Case -- Antec 900 Case
Processor -- Intel Core2Quad Q6600 Bx Core2Quad 2.4GHz@1066FSB
Motherboard -- XFX 680i LT
Cpu Cooler -- ARCTIC COOLING Freezer 7 Pro 92mm
HardDrive -- Western Digital Raptor WD360ADFD 36GB 10000 RPM SATA 1.5Gb/s Hard Drive - OEM
Power Supply -- PC Power & Cooling S75QB 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI NVIDIA SLI Certified (Dual 8800 GTX and below) CrossFire Ready
Memory -- OCZ SLI-Ready Edition 4GB (2 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR2 SDRAM DDR2 800 (PC2 6400)
Video Card -- XFX PVT88PYDF4 GeForce 8800 GT 512MB 256-bit GDDR3 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP
Media Drive -- Pioneer 20X DVD±R DVD Burner Black IDE
Operating System -- Windows XP
I can either
A -- Keep things as is
B -- Just Replace Motherboard and Sli my two 8800 gt
C -- Replace Motherboard, go up to 6gigs or 8 gigs of memory, and upgrade to Vista
D-- Replace to single video card
E -- Your idea which might be better then all of mine.
Thanks for reading this, I hope someone can help!
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