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Sep 26^th, 2008 at 4:05pm

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I friend of mine who´s a real comuter geek is tempting me to buy one of them SLI motherboards so I can hook up two video cards at one time and thus "skyrocketing performance", his words.

What do you think? Will it help if I hang two 9500 Nvidias with 1GB each along with 4GB RAM and say a 3.0 processor?

Oh, and something else... What´s the bloody difference between a Windows Xp 32 bit and a 64 bit.

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Reply #1 - Sep 26^th, 2008 at 5:32pm

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If you are looking for a really good performing gaming machine that is top of the lineish look at my sig. Wink

I would skip on the 9500 and go for a 8800 GTX or a 8800GT. Wink

The difference between 64 and 32 bit OS is how much RAM it can use. 32 bit xp os can only use a max of 3gb of RAM. 64 bit can have if i remember correctly a couple terabytes of RAM. Shocked

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Reply #2 - Sep 26^th, 2008 at 6:24pm

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a1 wrote on Sep 26^th, 2008 at 5:32pm:

If you are looking for a really good performing gaming machine that is top of the lineish look at my sig. Wink

I would skip on the 9500 and go for a 8800 GTX or a 8800GT. Wink

The difference between 64 and 32 bit OS is how much RAM it can use. 32 bit xp os can only use a max of 3gb of RAM. 64 bit can have if i remember correctly a couple terabytes of RAM. Shocked

Hey, that sig. looks pretty cool, but... can you define what it is? I apologize for the ingorance.

And how will it sell for... I´m sking to get ready financialy.

Thanks.

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Reply #3 - Sep 26^th, 2008 at 9:01pm

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I don't know the exact specs for 64 or 32 bit computers.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/64-bit

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/32_bit

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Reply #4 - Sep 26^th, 2008 at 9:10pm

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RacingLad wrote on Sep 26^th, 2008 at 6:24pm:

a1 wrote on Sep 26^th, 2008 at 5:32pm:

If you are looking for a really good performing gaming machine that is top of the lineish look at my sig. Wink

I would skip on the 9500 and go for a 8800 GTX or a 8800GT. Wink

The difference between 64 and 32 bit OS is how much RAM it can use. 32 bit xp os can only use a max of 3gb of RAM. 64 bit can have if i remember correctly a couple terabytes of RAM. Shocked

Hey, that sig. looks pretty cool, but... can you define what it is? I apologize for the ingorance.

And how will it sell for... I´m sking to get ready financialy.

Thanks.

He is meaning his system spec for his computer is a gaming rig (or the beastie in pcpowerplay) Grin

anyways yes a 64 bit OS can support i think 32 or 64 Gigs of RAM. But a 64 bit CPU can support 16 exabytes of RAM... A exabyte is about 1,000 terabytes, a terabyte is 1,000 Gigabytes, A Gigabyte is 1,000 megabytes. I forgot the rest Embarrassed

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But yes buy a SLi motherboard, you don't have to buy 2 cards, just one let's say 8800GT, then later when you need more power and the price is down... buy another one and put it in. It's called planning for the future Wink

Oh and the parts is his sig are... The 790i is his motherboard, QX9650 is his quad core CPU that cost alot of money Shocked

GeForce 8800GTX is his GPU Wink

but his system is VERY pricey Cheesy

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Reply #5 - Sep 26^th, 2008 at 9:14pm

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Get a GTX 280 and it'll all be fine Kiss

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Seriously, 9500 GT SLI performance isn't any good, neither is the fact FSX won't use the extra card.

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Reply #6 - Sep 27^th, 2008 at 6:17pm

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Mazza wrote on Sep 26^th, 2008 at 9:10pm:

But yes buy a SLi motherboard, you don't have to buy 2 cards, just one let's say 8800GT, then later when you need more power and the price is down... buy another one and put it in. It's called planning for the future Wink

But the future will bring new processor technology, maybe higher FSBs,and probably new graphics card and memory interfaces... rendering todays SLi Motherboard obsolete..

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