"Drew" wrote in
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Hey all
Running a Intel D975XBX2 motherboard 4gigs of ddr667 ram and Core2
duo 1.86 and Nvidia 7900gs vid card and I am curious what would be
the best bang for the buck speed upgrade some might suggest.. I play
games like Company of Heroes as well as racing simulators ( Rfactor
and GTR2)and flight sims (Microsoft's flight sim X.) I am not
necessarily having any problems but would like advice on next
upgrade


"Andy [YaYa]" wrote in message
48.16...

Get a nice Quad Core.

Lastly would be video, I use a 8800GT, but the new ATi 4850 or 4870
has won a ton of rewards for their price and performance vs. "faster"
nVidia cards like the 280gtx. I would go with one of those. Not the
ATi 3000 series, go for the 4850 or 4870

An option anywhere along those lines would be to upgrade your hard
drive array. I run 3 x 320 gig, basic Seagate drives, but I use the
first for my C: drive and the other 2 I stripe (RAID0) for my D:
drive. Make sure you run your pagefile.sys on the D:\ drive for extra
speed with the virtual memory file.

"Drew" wrote in
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Andy...I should have mentioned, (Brain fart ! ) I am running Vista
business and have been since the very first day it came out...I am
running the 32bit edition but I do own the 64bit and both are retail.
I am looking at the Q6600 as well as a couple of Ati 4670s.. I also
have twin 160gig Seagate's sata1.5's and I was looking at maybe a sata
3.. In your opinion for this would 64bit get me better performance !!

I would definatly go 64-bit if you can. It won't get better performance
unless the game has a 64-bit client, not many do. Half Life: Source
games, Supreme Commander, and a bunch of other mainstream titles have
64-bit versions available, so I'd say it's worth the investment. I do
retail work part time, and probably 2/3'rds of the systems we sell (Best
Buy) are running 3+ gigs of ram with Vista 64-bit, so hey everyone, 64-
bit OS's are finally in the majority! Woot! I don't even think OS X is
running 64-bit yet, but I may be wrong.

Hard Drives, up to you, they are cheap as hell now. Don't RAID0 your C:
drive, or just keep backups if you do.

Yeah, I'm not 100% sure I got the ATi model numbers right, but HardOCP
site seems to think a crossfire ATi setup of the cards one down from top
of the line (they cost like $149 each) is the best way to go now.

I've never played around with SLI or Crossfire, it just seems like a
waste of moolah to me, but I can't deny that makes a difference.

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-A.