I'm doing a big upgrade to my 3 year old PC and want to get your thoughts and suggestions on what i've picked out.
Graphics Cards here
Motherboard here
PSU here
& RAM here

Bear in mind i will be using my old Pentium 4 for now. Not enough cash to get a new processor.

That mainboard doesn't support sli so 2 nvidia cards is not so great for that card. select another motherboard or a single better card.
The 8800GT or 9600 should be within the same price range.

Good luck on the upgrade.

In that case, another motherboard here.

SLI support and cheaper too.

I'm pretty sure a single 8800gt will wipe the floor with a 8600gt sli setup. here's a link i quickly found. Tom's hardware is one of the best places to search around anyway so do a bit of research.

SLI does not mean twice the performance, or even close for that matter. A game like crysis will destroy thiose 8600gt's whereas a 8800gt will happily run smoothly and maxed on lower resolutions. What's the native on your monitor?

Yes I would go single to mate. Single 8800gt would be better.

I have a 8800gts 512 which plays all games great.

Firstly, bumbandit, i have a CRT monitor so i don't really have a native res.

Is it worth it go for the 512 version of the 8800gt. Is there a huge difference between 256(here) and 512(here) versions?
Thanks for the help lads

That sites is very dear if you ask me mate.

you can get a 8800gts for that much

Not much differnce to note until you get into the higher resolutions or start using FSAA and AF.
I'm assuming you could use 1600*1200 on your crt in which case i'd go for the 512 (I already did, mine is the exact same MSI oc version in your link and it runs like a dream)

Here's a fairly good review http://www.firingsquad.com/hardware/xfx ... efault.asp

Here's the link i forgot to paste from my original post
http://www.tomshardware.co.uk/forum/247 ... 0gt-8800gt

It might be worth considering the Radeon 3850 if price is still going to be an issue. it's in the review obove and doesn't do badly.

This is a handy comparison tool for graphics cards http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html

Those prices were in Euros Gimpster. I think the 512 version was coming in at £145 from their UK site.




Your links were excellent bambandit .
Going for the 512 8800gt.

Thanks a lot lads. MExican wave for youuuuuuuuuuu.