With Christmas around the corner I am looking to upgrade my computer. Right now everything is fairly even matched (in my highly uneducated opinion anyway) and the next choice is a little unclear. I was thinking about SLI because the video card I own is SLI capable (however the MB is NOT). With AH I can pretty much do whatever I want with the video settings. Some of the other games I play arent quite up to par tho. Power supply is already overloaded according to supply/demand so its got to go...So far the computer doesnt run to bad when the mother board isnt being fried by a lightning strike. The funny part was its the only thing on a surge protector. They told me I needed a new MB along with another hard drive. Got the hard drive back (for proprietary data) plugged it in and viola no issues. I could have only hoped they canned the whole thing and gave me my money back. Vista has been a night mare all along and I can relate to skuzzy's pain. Except for the factory OC on the video card the whole thing is stock parameters. I couldnt even tell you what the temp of the CPU is and prefer to keep it that way.
I keep my tinkering in the garage for good reasons.
The computer specs:
AMD 5000+ Dual Core processors running at 2.6 GHz
3 GB's of factory ram (unknown specs)
Two 400GB disk drives (1 for games and 1 for everything else)
22" Gateway running 1680X1040 screen res at 60 Hertz
512mb 8600 GT OC video card (SLI Capable)
Vista (ick)
DirectX 10
Two things....I am stuck with AMD and NVidia for unrelated software reasons.
Race
