8800 gt question.

[Skuggomann]

Hi right now i have a MSI NX 7600gt grapic card and a 450W powersuppyer and im getting FPS laggspikes wen i go into populated places and i cant enter major citys,

So my solution is to get a nVidia GeForce 8800GT, 512 MB and usign the old one via SLI (or jsut skippign the old one compleatly)

Now i have 2 questions:
1. Does it work to SLI thous grapics card or do they not liek each other? XD
2. Is my powersupply big enough?



ram 1gb, gota update that too :S
cpu is amd dual core +3200

[Los]

Iiak sli was same gfx cards and the ati variant crossfire can handle different types, though they must support crossfire.

Im more interested in your cpu/ram situation, because that gfx card should suffice.

[binkiebink]

power supply should be fine

[Ughmahedhurtz]

If you have less than 2GB of system ram, old ATA IDE hard drives or a dual-channel DDR2 motherboard with broken BIOS, your video card won't fix that.

[Diamndzngunz]

Just a FYI I believe the 8800Gt's are PCI express 2.0. Remember that

[sorrowharvester]

Just a FYI I believe the 8800Gt's are PCI express 2.0. Remember that

This, although mine will work in a PCI-E x16 slot. And you're power supply will NOT do!
Read my post in General called "Hellish Upgrade"

[amalgam]

Your wattage is close to the bare minimum for the card. I went for a 650W PSU for mine and it works beautifully. Make sure it can supply roughly 26 or 28 amps for the card.

[Lost Ninja]

Do the RAM thing first.

I noticed an immediate improvement from 1Gb to 2Gb (went 3Gb but my old RAM and new didn't like each other. :()

[d0z3rr]

Wattage doesn't matter as much as how many amps are on the +12v rail. There should be a requirement for that somewhere for the specs of the video card. Pretty sure there is a sticker on your PSU that shows the number of amps on +12v.

I would recommend a new PSU if you decide to buy a 8800gt.

I wouldn't get the 8800gt though, I would add more RAM to your computer.

You cannot SLI different series of cards, they must be exactly the same.

[amalgam]

Wattage doesn't matter as much as how many amps are on the +12v rail. There should be a requirement for that somewhere for the specs of the video card. Pretty sure there is a sticker on your PSU that shows the number of amps on +12v.

I would recommend a new PSU if you decide to buy a 8800gt.

I wouldn't get the 8800gt though, I would add more RAM to your computer.

You cannot SLI different series of cards, they must be exactly the same.

This.

[midnightrain]

@ughmahedhurtz: what is the DDR2 BIOS issue you are referring to? I have 4GB of DDR2 on my P35 motherboard; even with an 8800GT my framerates are still pretty bad with 5 accounts: ~10-15fps

[crebble]

i dunno bout the wattage but i use a core 2 duo 2,66 8800gts , and 3 80gb sata's with a 480 watt's cpu and it works great!

tho i wouldnt say too much now since its a new pc but it doesnt seem to be too small since it doesnt get hot!
believe me when i say that a too small cpu will get HOT.
back in the days when p3 was the best i had a too small one (280w) and i coult frie eggs on it (not a joke)

/stick

[Ughmahedhurtz]

@ughmahedhurtz: what is the DDR2 BIOS issue you are referring to? I have 4GB of DDR2 on my P35 motherboard; even with an 8800GT my framerates are still pretty bad with 5 accounts: ~10-15fps
Some motherboards have poorly optimized BIOS code (or bad hardware in some models) that can cause lag and BSODs when you run DDR memory in dual-channel mode. By dual channel mode, I mean having your RAM in matched pairs (bank 0+2, 1+3, etc.). There are a lot of technical reasons for it but it exhibits itself as very intermittent and frustrating jumpiness or just flat out failures to run. I have an old ASUS P4B533 on one of my older boxes that refuses to run properly with matched DDR. BSODs, BIOS hangs, all sorts of wierd errors. Put in one stick in either bank, though, and it works like a champ. Put all the hardware from that system on another motherboard with the same specs from MSI and it works fine.

[Skuggomann]

Bought 2GB 800Mhz RAM and all lag gon :) WOHOOOO! XD i can finally go into Ogrimmar :P