650i or 630i evga?

[jinho11104]

thanks.. i think im better off picking another CPU. what should i pick on budget?

or should i just bite the bullet and buy an sli asus.

 

[farlex85]

Ok, well, I'm not sure, you've got lots of options. IMO a p43 w/ an e7200 is definately the best route for a gamer on a budget. The e7200s are great oc'ers and are priced very well. If you want you could drop to a 65nm proc, those are expensive though. You'd likely want a e4xxx series, like an e4500, but those cost almost as much as the e7200 and are not nearly as fast.

Sli shouldn't really be considered on a budget. What kind of budget are you looking at?

 

[jinho11104]

here is my story line:

recently i bought a asus m2n sli.
so my rig was going to be:
2 x 8800gt
700watt psu xvs
3.0 amd dualcore
3gig ram
x fi xtreme

i was hoping it will beast in games like counter strike source but i was wrong getting actually LOWER than my 8500gt.. i dont know if its my psu/cpu problem or the board itself.

i ran drivers etc yada yada.. im giving up on this. i didn't flash the bios but that still doesn't fix the fact that im getting 60fps and lower with gt8800

im trying to sell ONE graphics card and a cpu (i got 2 3.0 dual cores)



OR just rmaing this m2n sli + sell a cpu = go for the m2n sli deluxe.

after reading some rma disatisfaction.. i am trying to avoid it



my other thought is jus buying an am2 based matx and buying 8800gts (selling both of my 8800gt s) but amd is slow >_> sorry fanboys

 

[JrRacinFan]

One think you could look into before scrapping the whole build, What is your HT multi set at?

 

[farlex85]

Well that's not really a budget rig at all. Huh, so I guess your no longer interested in trying to make this one work, cause this looks like a great gaming rig to me. No way no how 2 8800gt's score lower than an 8500gt. Even if sli isn't working. What brand psu is it?

 

[jinho11104]

um its from ultra, 40 amp single rail i see ppl work t great with 600watt xvs so mine should work too


@Jr

no clue what you have just said.,. and im still scared of asus's rma...

 

[farlex85]

He's talking about the BIOS options for clocking the amd. Hyper transport, or HTT, times the multiplier gives you your clock speed. What os are you using? And did you enable sli in the BIOS and in the os?

 

[jinho11104]

yes sli enabled and in nvidia panel.. os is vista 32 bit.. i will check the HT for you guys

 

[farlex85]

Well, if I was redoing it, I would probably sell those, get a p45, e7200, and a 4850. You could then add another 4850 later, they cost $200 and are scoring quite nicely. Or you could like you said pick up a deluxe version of the board you have, although with the information I can see I don't have any idea what's causing such poor performance, but I would blame the sli first. So, you could just sell both of those and get a 8800gts 512.

 

[jinho11104]

ht is on auto.


4850? why ati

 

[JrRacinFan]

Ok, get cpu-z from www.cpuid.com , run it for me and post a screenshot. I beleive you may have a little something you need to do with the HT multi.

@farlex
Not tryin to be a pain bro but HTT is hyperthreading tech used in intel.

 

[jinho11104]

if your wondering what the evil baby is..

 

[farlex85]

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@farlex
Not tryin to be a pain bro but HTT is hyperthreading tech used in intel.

Good call man thanks. I'm less familiar w/ the amd side of things.

@jinho- I said 4850 b/c they are priced very well, and the p45 offers crossfire possiblities and excellent intel overclocking. Nvidia chipsets don't oc procs as well, and sli tends to seem a little buggier and less efficient than crossfire from ati.

Haha I've seen that before, that's great stuff, you know that's a dad thing probably.

 

[jinho11104]

wolah! p45 is tooo expensive! the lowest is the msi for 110 and it looks like crap quality

 

[farlex85]

wolah! p45 is tooo expensive! the lowest is the msi for 110 and it looks like crap quality

That's true they are a bit expensive. The p43s are cheaper, but don't have as many features, and don't have crossfire. But you could stick w/ a single card (8800gt, 8800gts,4850) anyway. Or you could stick w/ your amd set-up. Too many options and variables still for me. Decide which way you wanna go and I can help from there I guess. I think your current set-up is good, you just gotta figure out where the problem is.

 

[jinho11104]

first off why theres crossfire on a matx? cause im looking for a micro for my t1000 case

 

[farlex85]

first off why theres crossfire on a matx? cause im looking for a micro for my t1000 case

I don't know if there is one, at least on the intel side of things. There may be some amd matx cf boards.

 

[jinho11104]

I don't know if there is one, at least on the intel side of things. There may be some amd matx cf boards.

im completely fine with jus 1 card on my comp lol

 

[JrRacinFan]

Ok in your bios, see if you can change your HT link to 5x versus auto. Report back when done.

 

[jinho11104]

gors p to 4x lol

 

[NeotonicDragon3]

Ok, get cpu-z from www.cpuid.com , run it for me and post a screenshot. I beleive you may have a little something you need to do with the HT multi.

@farlex
Not tryin to be a pain bro but HTT is hyperthreading tech used in intel.

HT is also Hyper Transport in AMD

 

[jinho11104]

i can spedn up to 250$ on both mobo and cpu(intel)

-or-

spend up to 150$ on mobo(amd/sli)

-or-

spend 250$ on mobo (amd/nosli)

 

[JrRacinFan]

gors p to 4x lol

So that means you can only get 4x to be stable? Or does that mean 5x is not an available option?

 

[jinho11104]

means 5x isnt an opotion



http://www.ewiz.com/detail.php?name=MB-M75SLI4#



good?

 

[jinho11104]

i still need help on my build.

heres the things i have as of now..

AN M2 ABIT(the version without vga intergrated)
3GIGS
3.0ghz DC(overclockable to 3.2 but i dont know how..)
8800gt
T1000 CASE



LOOKING FOWARDS:

Aspire X-QPACK2
zalman cps7xxx w/e its called
8800gt
500watt aspire
3.5gig ram
3.0 DC
gigabyte GA-MA78GM


SWEET OR WHAT i always struggled and thought amd was HORRID compared to intel.. but o well its budget