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Author:  Shaddoch [ Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:26 am ]
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Looking to make an update or two to my two year-old computer. Where's the biggest bang for my buck with this rig? CPU? RAM? I'll also be upgrading to Windows 7 soon.

Dell XPS 630I

Intel Core 2 Quad Q9550 @ 2.83GHz

Two NVIDIA GeForce 9800 GT cards

4GB Kingston PC2-6400 DDR2

Author:  MATRIX [ Wed Sep 22, 2010 11:46 am ]
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cpu is fine,ram should be ok unless your maxing it out so i would say video card but double check your PSU first

Author:  Shaddoch [ Fri Apr 29, 2011 6:51 am ]
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One of my video cards crapped out, and I'm looking to either get another of the same to run SLI again or get a nicer card to replace both of them. Any recommendations in the $200-250 range?

Author:  MATRIX [ Fri Apr 29, 2011 11:42 am ]
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its maxing out your price but the gtx 560ti would be good

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130604

or the GTX 460 which is in the 200-250 range both those cards would outperform a 9800 in Sli

Author:  Shaddoch [ Fri Apr 29, 2011 12:28 pm ]
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Thanks, Matrix. Any cards just above that one you would recommend? There's a $30 rebate on the card that brings it down to $217. If other cards rebates, too, I'm willing to spend a bit more.

Is it worth getting the superclocked version of the same card?
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6814130610

Author:  MATRIX [ Fri Apr 29, 2011 1:23 pm ]
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no not worth bying the super clocked it would make little change and you can always over clock it wiyth the evga precision tool which is free

Author:  Shaddoch [ Fri May 06, 2011 7:57 am ]
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Thanks, Matrix, ended up getting the 560 Ti. Showed up yesterday and is running nicely so far. I can max out all settings except for shadows, which drop my fps by 20 or so when maxed.

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