Ordered some new toys.......

[Buffalo Six]

So I was thinking on buildign a new gaming rig....

but after thinking about it last night, I decided that by 2 year old base AMD dual core system is still good enough for now, and I'll wait for win7 to come out before I swap out my Asus Crosshair mobo for a intel quad rig with DDR3 ram after that. So with that decision, I ordered these toys....no more 23 frames in IL2 for me =)


2 of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130433

one of these
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817139007

[Softball]

Not bad. Now just hope you don't have any memory resource conflicts like I have with my (2) 8800GTXs. When I would install both cards, my network card would stop working. The network card is integrated into the MB, so I can't exactly change slots to try and fix the problem. So for now, I am still running (1) 8800GTX and it's running my games just fine.

And if it's any consolation, I am still running on a 3 year old AMD Dual Core system (AMD 64 X2 4600+, DDR) and have not had any issues running the latest games. This is probably the longest I have stuck with a single setup for gaming. I think I have bypassed 2 generations of CPUs since 2006. What I am afraid of now is having something fail and not being able to replace it due to my low funds. Damn this economy.

[VEGETA]

never had issues with my SLI 8800GTS cards except the freezing on watching videos which a driver release fixed. But its great. Mind you I think sli and il2 did not work together but I may be off and its lomac I am thinking of.

[BaD KaRmA]

Not bad. Now just hope you don't have any memory resource conflicts like I have with my (2) 8800GTXs. When I would install both cards, my network card would stop working. The network card is integrated into the MB, so I can't exactly change slots to try and fix the problem. So for now, I am still running (1) 8800GTX and it's running my games just fine.

And if it's any consolation, I am still running on a 3 year old AMD Dual Core system (AMD 64 X2 4600+, DDR) and have not had any issues running the latest games. This is probably the longest I have stuck with a single setup for gaming. I think I have bypassed 2 generations of CPUs since 2006. What I am afraid of now is having something fail and not being able to replace it due to my low funds. Damn this economy.

Pickup an Intel Gigabit PCI or PCIe NIC and use that, they're cheap and very good.

[Softball]

With (2) 8800GTXs installed, I lose a PCI slot. I'll have to look, but I think I am using the other (2) available slots already. I don't really want to buy anything else for this system, I'm saving up for an upgrade to the i7 CPUs sometime this summer. I might also switch to Windows 7 when it's released, not sure on that though.

[BaD KaRmA]

Onboard NIC's can vary from decent to very poor. The Intel NIC's however have been tested to perform extremely well especially for the money compared to the Killer Nic's. I think I picked mine up for $20 each.

[Hammer]

i bet i have one or more laying around.

[Buffalo Six]

and they arrived safe and sound =) looks like I'm constructing this weekend =)

[Softball]

Awesome! Let us know how it goes fitting them in your case.

Hopefully you still have your SLI Bridge piece that comes with your MB. ;)

[VEGETA]

if not you can buy a bridge and the evga cars came with a bridge but its a flexible ribbon cable and not nearly as clean as the one that comes with motherboard.

[Buffalo Six]

still have it......no worries

[VEGETA]

he also has his lunch money form the 3rd grade

[Buffalo Six]

no I spent that on Penthouses that I then sold pages of to all the other kids and make a nifty profit at $2.00 a page..........