[QUOTE="elitegeek13"]Ha. probably right. Way to go for being ignorant and denying the truth.Thinker_145

Flame does not put out flame... just sayin'

[QUOTE="killtheponies"][QUOTE="sabbath2gamer"][QUOTE="jdt532"][QUOTE="Fignewton50"]

I don't own Vista so I can't comment on your questions...

But I assume you're buying this computer assembled for you? Do you have any options beside the SLi'd 8600GTS? Your money would be much better spent on a single better card, like the 8800 GT. The 8800GT is around $250 and cheaper than two 8600 GTS and would yield much better performance.

sabbath2gamer

Yeah I'm buying a PC from cyberpowerpc.com but I can customize it how I want. So I should buy a PC with a single more powerful GPU? Is this better for the short term will future games take better advantage of SLI setups?

well when you get your rig theres like 90% chance it will fail on you

cyberpower and ibuypower have the worst pc's most of the time there pc dont work parts are DOA's and have the worst customer support on the planet

if i were you i would build a pc and you can save a couple hundred bucks

if not then buy a pc from AVAdirect.com you can customize it also on avadirect.com

Do you have evidence to back that up?

googles your friend ;)

but you cant honestly say you have never heard that before can you

im just trying to help the guy out

I've heard of ibuypower being crappy but not cyberpower and I've not heard of avadirect.... I never buy retail computers though... so I'm kinda out of it on that subject.

I use an nForce 680i LT mobo and it runs great for me.

DON'T SKIMP ON THE MOBO.

EVER.

[QUOTE="PWN-Schubie"][QUOTE="Thinker_145"][QUOTE="PWN-Schubie"]

they only downside to the 4600 is its FSB, thats why people like to OC it.

but agreed, for the price, even stock it is a good little processor.

Thinker_145

im sorry, a tad confused, are you asking if the 1fps differance is because of the cpu?

i think that could be the limiting factor, now 1fps wouldnt be a hugh deal, but generally the gt does slightly out perform the gts640, so my guess is if he did abit of OCing he could raise that abit, but the big performance differance would be in more CPU intensive games like SupCom.

Perhaps the CPU is bottlenecking the card... pehaps it's just a statistical error.

I could get a PC with one 8800 ultra 768mb now and then buy another one later when a game comes out that will take advantage of that...

So if the motherboard supports SLI I can still use a single GPU?

jdt532

SLI mobos do support single GPU configurations.... and if you don't mind paying for it I'd go with the 8800ultra over 2 8600GTS cards any day of the week. Also consider that the Ultra isn't all that much of an upgrade over the GTX, but costs more money.

[QUOTE="jdt532"][QUOTE="Fignewton50"]

I don't own Vista so I can't comment on your questions...

But I assume you're buying this computer assembled for you? Do you have any options beside the SLi'd 8600GTS? Your money would be much better spent on a single better card, like the 8800 GT. The 8800GT is around $250 and cheaper than two 8600 GTS and would yield much better performance.

sabbath2gamer

Yeah I'm buying a PC from cyberpowerpc.com but I can customize it how I want. So I should buy a PC with a single more powerful GPU? Is this better for the short term will future games take better advantage of SLI setups?

well when you get your rig theres like 90% chance it will fail on you

cyberpower and ibuypower have the worst pc's most of the time there pc dont work parts are DOA's and have the worst customer support on the planet

if i were you i would build a pc and you can save a couple hundred bucks

if not then buy a pc from AVAdirect.com you can customize it also on avadirect.com

Do you have evidence to back that up?

Here's an article on how crappy phenom OCing is

And here's a phenom vs. Q6600 article

[QUOTE="Dancing_Panda"]

[QUOTE="kruesader"]Well, that will run Crysis on high, yeskruesader

what? on an 8600gts? isnt crysis a pushy game even for the biggest, baddest rigs, high would be achievable with a better video card i reckon

oops sorry, i misread that at 8800GTS , my bad

2 8600GTS' should be able to run it on high... very high is probably out of the question though

All I got with my OEM HDD was the hard drive wrapped in bubble wrap.

Yeah, your mobo should come with a cable. If not, you can just make a trip down to your local computer store for one.