The Official Budget-Conscious Dream Machine!

Yeah it'll be able to run it, but you may have to sacrifice some settings depending on what resolution you run. At 800x600 you could probably max it out, higher resolutions and you'd have to start turning down the detail levels.

 

That's why I got an SLI board. I figured that an 8800GTX would be useful in dual configuration.

I'm thinking though. Should I sell my 8800 for like, $400? Then I could get 2 8800GTs as it would cost less, take up less power, and make cooling easier for me. It would be a definite improvement over my single 8800GTX...

 

You could, I suppose. Of course there's the risk that in a few games the new setup won't perform as well as the single GTX, but the number of games vulnerable to that doesn't seem that high these days.

 

800x600...wont that make everything big?...i have a 15" monitor so i can crank it up!...but with no AA or AF tho...

@Estuansis go for it...8800GT is good, only little behind the GTX but sammorris is right in some games 8800GT doesn't perform as well as GTX...but most of the time that card rocks...

does anyone know any good and cheap OCZ, SLI certify and not Cross-fire...

 

That isn't entirely what I meant, in a large number of games the GT isn't quite as good as the GTX. Fair enough it's not supposed to be, I was more commenting that some games don't give you any extra benefit from SLI.

As for the power supply, I've already recommended you one. SLi and Crossfire certification only means that the unit can deliver enough power to run those setups, it doesn't restrict you to only using the one that the PSU's certified for.

For the resolution, the game won't become any bigger at lower resolutions, it just won't look as good.

 

sorry i mean OCZ RAM not the PSU...

anyways which one is better:

Kingston
http://www.sybaritic.co.za/store/product_info.php?cPath=30_363&products_id=11076

OCZ
http://www.ngrcomputers.co.za/pc28500-ddr21066-reaper-heatsink-p-4540.html

 

I generally find there's little point buying 1066mhz RAM, you may as well save some money and go with 800mhz stuff. As for the brand though, I prefer OCZ over Kingston.

 

what about this one...

http://www.ngrcomputers.co.za/pc26400-ddr2800-sliready-edition-p-4532.html

it seems pretty good...

 

Yeah that's pretty decent RAM.

 

Yeah, OCZ is a good brand. Any premium priced memory from them is bound to be "pretty good" at the least.

That's what I figured. All the games coming out these days are SLI compatible. And any game that doesn't use SLI runs flawlessly on an 8800GT. So I figured I could go for a "good enough" approach. Two 8800GTs would give me much better performance than a single 8800GTX and any game that doesn't use it won't matter because the 8800GTs would give me more than satisfactory performance. I could keep my "high-performance" status a while longer and save some money

Sound like a solid plan?

 

Yep. An expensive one, but I'm sure that's not your problem lol

 

bloody hell...you guys work...so really dont need to worry about buying hardwares or anything that you really want...not me...i'm still at school...no place to go other than home and school...

 

Actually all three of us(Sam, me, Estuansis) go to school. Sam goes to a university, and Estuansis gets paid good bucks lol.

 

Correction: It's college at the moment. I'm going back to university next year, so for this year I don't even get a student loan.

 

Oh that sucks.

 

lol...yeah! university student and working...i'm still in high school...anyways...new AMD Phenom X4 is coming out on the 20th of Nov and the new Intel Penryn QX9650 is coming out on the 12th of Nov...

what do you guys think of this monitor:
http://www.pc123.co.za/catalog/prod...=1297&osCsid=fa82080b90013eda983a19b927dff45a

and this one:
http://www.pc123.co.za/catalog/prod...=1133&osCsid=a6e7718206ea5c42f23e53d477c83af9

 

I'm in High School, then again I cant afford new parts either! lol

The Samsung seems like a better choice, it has a better contrast ratio.

 

lol...me think so too...and its cheaper...

 

Me too. I'm in my Senior year(12th grade). I was working at the cranberry marshes for $8.50 an hour, 6 hours a day, 6 days a week. I'm done there now, so I'm back at BDT welding together cranberry pickers for $10.15 an hour. Only problem is 4 hours a day and only 5 days a week. So the marshes made more money for me.

 

Well you get more time to study, which will give you good grades. In the end you will be a doctor making a million a year!