Hello everyone, new to this forum, it has been been a very useful tool!! Just thought i would share the details of my new Rig and get a few opinions or possible future improvements/suggested upgrades. Here goes. Lian LI Case PC-767 ASUS P5K-E MOBO Intel E6850 OC'd to 3745 with Scythe Infinity Cooler ATi Sapphire HD3870x2 Graphics card Corsair HX620 PSU Corsair XMS2 TwinX 4GB (2x2GB) PC6400 DDR2 speed 5-5-5-15 832mhz Vista Home Premium Samsung HD501LJ HDD Partioned Hp w2207 22" Monitor Any comments greatly apprieciated. Thanks
Only upgrade I could see would be the motherboard. The p35 chipset gives a 16x pci-ex and a 4x pci-ex slot. Get an x38 board and take full advantage of your two cards. Other than that you're pretty golden.
Thanks for your comments, My board has two PCi-ex x16 slots and the Sapphire HD 3870x2 is a single card with 2 GPUs on one silicon board with 1024 DDR3 ram. Expansion Slots 3 PCI, 2 PCI-E x1, 2 PCI-E x16
Actually, your board hasn't got two pci-ex 16x slots. It has got one 16x pci-ex slot and one 4x pci-ex slot. It is the limitation of the chipset. What happens when you crossfire your board is that you either run one card in 16x mode and one in 4x mode, or you run two in 8x mode. Either way the benefit you gain from the second video card is GREATLY limited. That is why I recommeded a board with a full crossfire chipset. The x38 chipset has two full 16x pci-ex slots and your performance would go up quite a bit. I was, however, mistaken because I thought you meant two 3870s in crossfire mode, not the actual 3870x2 card. So that is my mistake, although my point is still valid. So, should you plan to grab another 3870x2 and quad crossfire the two together you will want to upgrade your mobo.
Pretty impressive. You gonna keep AA off your games since ATIs take that big hit from them? I doubt you'd really need to, that card should be able to muscle through it.
Thanks, was supprised myself. Havent really played around with the card settings yet, Crisis and CoD 4 play beautifully on the stock settings so i will probably leave as is for the time being.
I'd still love to see the 3D06 of a crossfired 3870x2 on an x38 board. With a Q6 series proc. Would probably top 24-25k. Would actually be the most powerfull rig possible atm next to a tri-8800GTX on a 780i.
Yes As soon a ive finished robbing the nearest bank i will be on the net ordering the desired components lol!! I haved planned to get another 3870x2 in the future, now i will like to get an x38 mobo as you have pointed out that is what i will require to run successfully, not goner bother with the Q6 series processor just yet may be next year.
Yep, if you're one of those Asus fans then grab yourself a P5E instead of a P5K-E and you'll be set to crossfire that beast for a rediculous amount of performance. I believe the x38 pci-ex slots are actually pci-ex 2.0 instead of the old pci-ex.
Rhoch have you got yours overclocked to 3.74 GHz? I thought when you were building yours you said you didn't plan on doing much overclocking?
My Q6600 (dual E6600) has the same temps as your OC'd dual core. If your temps where much lower, I would certainly think that my cooler was not installed properly No, but a Q6600 gets much hotter than a dual core. So it might be good to compare a stock Q6600 with an overclocked E6*** CPU.
HAHA donkey, the reason I do that is that I have it on autofill with my browser at home but not at work. It's just a habit. Trust me I know the difference lmao.
ok, sorry then, quite a few people confuse PCI-X, PCIe & even PCI with each other, but obviously not on the occasion
