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Thoughts on my new set-up
This might seem a bit long but, I wanted to hear some thoughts on both the losses and gains.
My current setup consists of:
MB Abit AN8 32x 939 board
CPU Athlon64 3700+ 2.22
3 gig DDR 400Mhz memory Dual Channel
SLI Nvidia 6800GS (2)
Power Supply Corsair HX520W
Various Sata hard drives and such, no worries with those.
As a gift I got a bundle from the egg this week which had the following:
P5Q Pro Turbo motherboard.
Intel E5400 Dual Core 2.7
2 gig of DDR2 800Mhz
750gig Hard Drive
Since there was no new video card with this and the board can run dual ati cards but not sli Nvidia and the motherboard doesn’t carry either an ati nor Nvidia style chipset ( P45/ICH10R ) can I get away with a single Nvidia card from my current setup until I manage a decent ATI card or if I am just wanting to run a single card would I be better with a faster Nvidia card?
I’m guessing the video card will be my bottleneck for the moment. I expect to see a nice jump from the single core AMD to the dual core Intel. Also, if I figure the memory side though I am losing a gig at the moment my speed basically doubled or will I still see a big hit there as well until I get more memory.
Any thoughts would be appreciated.