Vafa/Tony Upgrading!

**ALPINESTAR** · 04-10-08, 01:41 PM

damn u tony.. i want a new toy so i can pwn u

**vafaskillz** · 04-10-08, 04:21 PM

Ok, everything is ordered and on the way!!

The q9450 was backordered EVERYWHERE for up to 2 months, but I got a hold of one on e bay

I have already heard people clocking it past 4.0 ghz with ease! With shipping and tax it came to almost 400.

I ordered the evga 790i mobo and the ddr3 ocz reaper ram from zipzoomfly. Both came to about 540.

Hopefully my Coolermaster cpu water cooler socket will fit on my motherboard, and if it doesnt then I will either buy a new socket or a new cooler all together.

I will let you know the benchmarks with this cpu vs the amd cpu and we can get a good comparison of how much the CPU/mobo/ram come into play vs my old setup with the same GPU. I will upgrade my vid cards soon too....tri sli anyone? mmm.

Thx for everyone's input!

**Toker** · 04-10-08, 06:18 PM

**Major Guch** · 04-10-08, 06:26 PM

well im going with the 9800 GTX 3 way. 3 98 gtx kills 2 9800 gx2. im ordering the first 2 next friday the 18th. in the next month i also think im going 790i and ddr 3 1333. that should have me up to par for 4 to 5 years. GOOD luck tony , you cant go wrong with that cpu.

**MaKe_OuT_33** · 04-10-08, 10:44 PM

Originally Posted by Tony_Perkiss

Ok, everything is ordered and on the way!!

The q9450 was backordered EVERYWHERE for up to 2 months, but I got a hold of one on e bay

I have already heard people clocking it past 4.0 ghz with ease! With shipping and tax it came to almost 400.

I ordered the evga 790i mobo and the ddr3 ocz reaper ram from zipzoomfly. Both came to about 540.

Hopefully my Coolermaster cpu water cooler socket will fit on my motherboard, and if it doesnt then I will either buy a new socket or a new cooler all together.

I will let you know the benchmarks with this cpu vs the amd cpu and we can get a good comparison of how much the CPU/mobo/ram come into play vs my old setup with the same GPU. I will upgrade my vid cards soon too....tri sli anyone? mmm.

Thx for everyone's input!

**vafaskillz** · 04-11-08, 12:46 AM

Originally Posted by Major Guch

well im going with the 9800 GTX 3 way. 3 98 gtx kills 2 9800 gx2. im ordering the first 2 next friday the 18th. in the next month i also think im going 790i and ddr 3 1333. that should have me up to par for 4 to 5 years. GOOD luck tony , you cant go wrong with that cpu.

You might as well get the 8800 g92s....its the same damn thing and u can save a few hundred bux! I dont think any game can utilize that much power unless ure running crysis. Damn guch, power hungry?

**Major Guch** · 04-12-08, 09:24 PM

well im running 2 8800 gts 512. And i got my first 9800 gtx today and in crysis after about 15 minutes of play the card fucks up. sucks to be me. but i do get 140 to 150 fps all at max and af and aa at 16x with reflect at all.

**Major Guch** · 04-15-08, 12:19 AM

well the 9800 gtx is going back. no matter what drivers i use crysis crashes my PC. so back to the ol 8800 gts

**vafaskillz** · 04-15-08, 12:23 AM

Originally Posted by Major Guch

well the 9800 gtx is going back. no matter what drivers i use crysis crashes my PC. so back to the ol 8800 gts

9800gtx users have reported little or no problems....sounds like you need to RMA. That shit is a lemon!

**Theonemafia** · 04-19-08, 07:56 AM

Ok! so we are finally done putting everything together.
Here are the results.
We got a new King in town.
We over clocked it to 3.8 stable. Running on air at 42C using zalman 9700.
Soon to be water cooled which will go into 4.....
Let the ss speak for themselves.
[img width=700 height=560]http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/5930/test2sn4.jpg[/img]
[img width=700 height=560]http://img255.imageshack.us/img255/6290/test3vl0.jpg[/img]
[img width=700 height=560]http://img187.imageshack.us/img187/256/test1cn1.jpg[/img]