Just looking fora few opinions

[troberts008]

Was out of the country for 3 months so I appologize for dissapearing hehe.

Anywho..down to business. Im aboutto upgrade a few things and id like opinions. Hopefully I ordered the right shtuff =P

I am currently Running a E6600 c2d on a Msi P7n Platinum mobo with 4g of basement ram running at 800. I have Sli'd 2 9800gt's and am using a off the shelf 320g seagate.

The 36600 is currently running oced at 3.0g from a stock 2.4

Now... This rig is meant for gaming, and as it is its good, but i want great.

So...I just ordered 8 gig of OCZ SLI enabled ram since my mobo supports it. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820227377

And I just ordered a Q8300 which i plan to OC to 3.2-3.4g

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819115207

THey will be here tomorrow. I also plan on raid 0ing 2 identical 320g seagate baracudas for my OS and ****ing my games on a non raided drive.

What Im asking is from what i gave you info wise, where do you think my bottleneck is currently? I think its mostly the processor. But the new ram ought help too, as it has faster FSB speeds and i can OC the crap out of it.

And...did I make some descent hardware choices for the new hardware? I was sorta on a budget, but Ive read alot on the processor and its like a 50/50 between a q6600 and a Q8300...

So, sorry if that was long, but if can manage to make it thru it...Id love to hear some thoughts.

 

[tinytomlogan]

What operating system you using dude?

 

[troberts008]

Vista X64 Ultimate

 

[tinytomlogan]

Well at least the OS will see the ram but 8gig is silly overkill for that system.

Most mobos wont even clock that well with all slots used.

In game I very much doubt you will see any dif with a quad as very few games will actualy utilise more than 2 cores properly.

FSB is the key to FPS, and sadly being a nvid mobo your never going to break any records doing that. Id push for a high fsb, even drop the multi to get it up higher if you can.

Other than that is new GPU time as the 9800gt is just an 8800gt with a different sticker.

 

[troberts008]

Well... I was prepared for that. The isue i have seems to come from World of Warcraft not properly using dual cores. It seems that it uses both cores but cuts the Clock speed in half so to speeak, so I was told to either get a single core with a high clock, or get a quad core. Wow would perform better on either of those. It seems MMo's rely more on the CPU and Ram, where as games like crysis utilize the video cards more.

SO following that train of thought new proc and mem seemed to be the way to go

 

[troberts008]

Yeah...all the articles i see say that the game i like to play the most hates dual cores. Either go back to single (yeah, right...) or get a descent quad and wow will perform properly again

 

[tinytomlogan]

Sounds to me you had the specific answer you needed all along.

 

[troberts008]

I suppose so.. but my question is more related to how far can i push this new quad with the hardware im using?

It seems my motherboard is fast as all hell, and OC's very well...IF the board isnt DOA...and my board performs FLAWLESSLY so im not too worried about it

Also..thanks for not makin fun of me and my Wow addiction =P Im ttrying to get into playing crysis online more, but meh..

Im also sorta cutrious to see if people/ you were able to tell a huge difference going from dual to quad.

 

[tinytomlogan]

No really mate but imho you should get what you can out of it anyways.

I generaly run most of my hardware as fast as I can get it stable.

I run a p7n plat and a plain p7n in my 2 main fold rigs, both with 3x 8800gt's in them.

Im really not a fan of the nvid chipset tbh, intels clock and run so much better.

 

[troberts008]

oh you have a platinum as well...can i ask how the ram sli works then? does it only show up in bios if the ram is indeed sli certified? 0.o

 

[tinytomlogan]

Dont use the sli mate, all my cards run individualy.

 

[troberts008]

K =p