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Ok I bought: Asus P5N32-E SLI Socket 775 Nforce 680i SLI FSB1333 Audio Firewire ATX Motherboard Kingston 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 Memory Non-ecc CL5 Unbuffered 1.8V Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 Socket 775 (3.0GHz) 1333FSB 6MB L2 Cache Processor Oblivion maxed out with 8x AA on and in...

My thoughts exactly, kmcferrin. Sadly I may need to upgrade the rest. Gone are the days when a Graphics card upgrade can drastically improve performance. These days I think it’s better just to simply buy a whole new PC. Nelviticus, my advice is not to risk it. ;-)

Nelviticus, thanks for the Task manager idea! Didn’t think of that one. The results of the CPU usage history say that Oblivion is not using 100%. I’d say it manages about 75% at the most but mostly I think it sat under 50%. I agree it wouldn’t be right considering the age of the game to be...

Yeah I’ve messed about with all kinds of graphic settings. I’ve tried switching the AA on and off and it seems to make very little difference to the 8800GT’s. The only thing that makes any difference in NWN2 is the shadows. Reducing the shadow quality can boost performance like nothing else...

Cheers for all of your input guys. However I went ahead with the upgrade and bought 2 x BFG Geforce 8800GTs OC and have realised to my horror that there is virtually no difference in performance to my old 7950 GX2!!! Well my old score on 3d Mark 06 was 7573 and I ran it today and got a score...

That is interesting Nelviticus. Appears that it depends very much on the game as to what card will perform better. Quite bizarre that the 7950 GT outperforms the 8800 GT’s on Crysis! Yet with other games like COD 4 the 8800 GT floors the 7950 GT and there’s barely a comparison. Thanks Tony...

That’s a damn good find lopes1211! Thanks. My main concern is ES IV: Oblivion, since it’s my favourite game. I want to play it the second time around with a much better frame rate than last time. By the looks of the Oblivion comparison on that site there is an incredible difference between...

Hi I’m considering upgrading my graphics card. I currently have a Geforce 7950 GX2 and I am thinking about replacing it with 2x 8800GT’s in SLI but I’m not sure what the difference in performance will be. By Googling and searching this forum I have not been able to find any direct comparisons...

Firewolfrl youre a genius! All the tests passed so I did the Low Level format (quick) and you are correct! It has solved the issue! Thankyou,Thankyou,Thankyou! So basically the MBR was screwed? So you think a virus possibly got on during the fresh windows install and infected them both? Or...

Wolluf, sorry I forgot to mention that I had already tried the Drives on their own yes. That was the first thing that came to mind when I began experimenting. I also checked and changed the jumpers as necessary. What I hadn’t tried however was cable select, though I have now and it still has not...

For about 1 month before Christmas I upgraded my PC. It was healthy and running fine but I couldn’t help but think it could do better. I then came here to this forum to find out whether I needed Service Pack 2 to get the most out of it and up the performance. Having realised that ‘yes’ I needed...

Ok the thing with the hard drives is a weird one. Not exactly found out what's going on yet and I might start a new thread based on it since it's kind of a different topic. Though I have bought a SATA drive and that is working fine. So having done that and got on with it you guys are right for...

I now wish I’d never bothered at all. I installed Win XP Home edition, activated no problems after expecting to have to phone up MS and downloaded SP2. Everything was going ok until I started installing Alcohol 120%. Suddenly it bluescreened and I rebooted and tried it again and the same...

That's great thanks! I'll look into it then. The last time I tried SP2 was a while ago though and the Firewall was a bit dodgy. Even after disabling it, it seemed to still conflict with Sygate which ended up blocking my whole network and Internet access in and out so I uninstalled SP2. I guess...

Thanx guys. So SP2 really does help with security but will it still boost the dual core compatibilty and performance at all?

Greetings all. I am new to dual core processors and have upgraded to one recently. My new system is: AMD Athlon 64 X2 Dual Core 4800+ CPU Abit KN8 SLI Nforce 4 chipset Mobo Nvidia GeForce 7950 GX2 1GB Video Card Corsair 2GB PC3200 DDR400 RAM I am running Windows XP Pro with service pack 1...