computer upgrade

well new i7 processors came out, want one, but im stuck on motherboards, dont know if i should switch to intel mobo or stay with asus, need 1333mhz ddr3 though...
err anyone with computer knowlegde help.
thanks.

Those are pretty expensive CPUs. Just wondering, why do you want to upgrade?

my computers been running slow
current specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz
ASUS P5K3 DELUXE/WIFI-AP
CORSAIR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600)
Radeon HD 2900XT 1GB 512-bit GDDR4 PCI Express x16

What are you using it for? 3D rendering? Here's a nice motherboard.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/2008/08/21/asu...xe-next-generation-x58-motherb/1

Have you defragmented lately?

mostly games...did some 3d max while back didnt help since the vid card isn't made for it.

nice mobo, but what you think about vvvv
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131352

coolbam wrote:

Have you defragmented lately?

sure have, got a 74gb raptor as my primary, with 10 gb used, the rest is on the other 4tb so i know its not the hd.
plus i just formatted, to me it just seems slow again and need an upgrade.

Not sure. The one I listed I found in an i7 thread over at [H]ard forum.

Honestly, you might want to upgrade your video card instead. Maybe a HD 4870 or GTX 260. The 2900 XT really scores low against those other two.

Or check this out:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188039

Probably what I would buy if I had the money. I'll update link to Newegg when I get a chance.

yeah i know the vid card is crap, but the cpu is **** for overclocking and the motherboard had to be RMA'd already, and that took 3 weeks, so i dont wanna go through that again. plus i can sell the old system to my bro already said he'd buy it.

Oh, alright then. There ya go.

Motherboard:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813188039
or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813131346

CPU:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115202

Memory:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820231167

*optional*
Video Card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130365


You won't have to upgrade for two years.

holy crap thats an expensive video card. err, sounds good next week ill have it
thanks.

The 260 is a very good card as well, and a few hundred dollars cheaper.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130370

EDIT

I am extremely jealous of you for being able to drop ~$600 on some amazing hardware like that. Snap some shots of your completed case when you're finished and some benchmark results.

Before you buy new hardware....do some basic cleaning on your system.
Download Abexo Free Registry Cleaner....
http://www.abexo.com/afrcfree.exe
Download CCleaner....
http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/down...3ebc0a8a4669ed106ad70d0ac3dfd3f/
Download Spybot....
http://www.spybotupdates.com/files/spybotsd160.exe

Run all of those programs and your system should feel a bit peppier.
I'm running an AMD Opteron 165 overclocked to 2.7Ghz on an Asus A8n-SLi Deluxe motherboard with 2 Ghz of PC3400 and an ATi 4870 videon card and I can run every game out there just fine withall the eye candy.

The 4870 is a lot better card than his, that's why.

Sounds like an excuse for new hardware ;)

damn. good thing I only use mine for email and web surfing. Much cheaper that way . . .

If your planning on just getting new hardware, I would personally wait until just after the new year. Prices will drop quite a bit and you'll get more bang for your buck.

Q45guy wrote:

Before you buy new hardware....do some basic cleaning on your system. Download Abexo Free Registry Cleaner.... http://www.abexo.com/afrcfree.exe Download CCleaner.... http://www.filehippo.com/download_ccleaner/down...3ebc0a8a4669ed106ad70d0ac3dfd3f/ Download Spybot.... http://www.spybotupdates.com/files/spybotsd160.exe Run all of those programs and your system should feel a bit peppier. I'm running an AMD Opteron 165 overclocked to 2.7Ghz on an Asus A8n-SLi Deluxe motherboard with 2 Ghz of PC3400 and an ATi 4870 videon card and I can run every game out there just fine withall the eye candy.

Q45guy: lol thanks for the links, but i just formatted and its still slow....for me at least, running fallout 3 with everything maxed runs great, but it could be faster, i think ill take your tip and wait though till the new year plus i can get some money from Christmas which will make it a little easier to get the stuff.

Tim: dont like nvidia drivers, seems like when i had one they came out with new drivers every weekend, they make me crazy, but ati has there problems too my gpu crashes out of games sometimes when theres to much going on...gotta read up on new cards before i choose one.

Meh, I'm just a nVidia fanboy I guess. You won't be disappointed with the HD 4870

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102795

What'd you end up doing man?

debating whether or not to wait after new years or buy now, but im looking at:
ASUS Rampage II Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz LGA 1366 Quad-Core Processor
SAPPHIRE Radeon HD 4870 X2 2GB 512-bit (256-bit x 2) GDDR5 PCI Express 2.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFire Supported Video Card

which is a little over $1200 so idk how much it will drop if any good drop after the hoildays.

Ah, okay. I bet it'll drop a bit in the next few months. Might be able to save around $100 or so in total savings.

**** it ill get it now, got a year to pay for it.

interested in a ASUS P5K3 DELUXE/WIFI-AP LGA 775 with a Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 Conroe 3.0GHz?

so i ended up getting

ASUS Rampage II Extreme LGA 1366 Intel X58 ATX Intel Motherboard
Intel Core i7 920 2.66GHz LGA 1366 Quad-Core Processor Model
2x CORSAIR 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1333 (PC3 10600) Dual Channel Kit
SAMSUNG 22X DVD Burner Black SATA Model SH-S223F
Thermaltake CL-P0508 110mm CPU Cooler - Retail

What video card did you get? That's what's limiting you right now. I hope you didn't spend all that money and not upgrade the most important component.

I'd love to get one of those new i7 processors, just waiting for the price to come down a bit.

waiting till after the holidays to get the vid card, actually i can have my family pitch in and get me the one above .

i actaully wanna see what this cpu can do, wanna encode movies and see how fast it does it.

dude there is no point in getting a quad core, ally our doing is gaming, nothing uses the quad cores game wise, databasing systems and severs use the quads, its just a waste of money atm. just get a new viod card, and heres a great idea, get a raptor hdd and raid it in striping if you really wanna see a performance increase, most of your computer is limited by the speed of the hdd.

i have two raptors in raid 0 forgot to mention that, i actually might start up 3dmaxing/inventoring, if my job goes the right way, and since the new i7 is out its an excuse to get one, also ordered a sapphire 4870 512 mb with what was mentioned above.

I forgot to ask, what size monitor do you have? For smaller resolutions, Nvidia is really the way to go. Anything larger, or a dual monitor setup ATI/AMD really pushes through.

two 21" samsung, 1600x1200

You'll enjoy that 4870 then.

well got all my **** today installed, only problem is its only reading 2gb ram insstead of 6gb gotta figure it out tomorrow....

this is cool

Looks good man. What OS are you using again? You might need XP Pro x64 to read that many GBs.

urgh winxp64 sucks. running xpprox86 i think your right, 4 gb is max. cpuid reads 4gb, and i trust that thing.

Quote:

The primary benefit of moving to 64-bit is the increase in the maximum allocatable system memory (RAM). A single process on a 32-bit Windows operating system is limited to a total of 3.2 GB, which is typically equally divided between kernel and application usage. Windows XP x64 can support much more memory; although the theoretical memory limit a 64-bit computer can address is about 16 exabytes, Windows XP x64 is limited to 128 GB of physical memory and 16 terabytes of virtual memory.

8 processors is sick. I only have 2

cores*

EDIT

Wait, how does Core2Quad have 8 cores? Shouldn't it only have four? Or is that the whole 2quad thing (2x4)?

quad with hyperthreading = Eight processes

so should i goto vista 64 :-S
or winpro 64?

So there are only 4 physical cores? God, I have two and I thought that was quick.

yup only four physical cores, and i guess im going to vista x64 since i cant find a good copy of winpro x64 damnit, ill post benchmarks when everything is up and running smoothly.

You can't find a good copy of XP x64, in retail stores?