Nvidia Question

Tessa · 12-29-10, 05:21 PM

Ok, I've got a friend that's asked me to install a pair of 460's in sli so he can use the 3-D vision, personally I could care less but he's willing to shell out the money for the cards. Problem is this guy is extremely stubborn, to make this work properly he needs at least a new proc/motherboard; which he is reluctant to replace. He thinks his 5 year old amd fx-62 (a good proc, just not enough juice for newer games) is still top shelf.

Since I can't get him to do the right thing and buy an i5 and new board, I'm stuck trying to figure out what he can use with what he has - amd fx-62 and asus M2N32-sli deluxe. He is obsessed with SLI, his rig must have sli regardless of whether it actually is giving him any performance gain; not the smartest thing to do but its what he has to have.

To try and get 1 460 to run on his machine would be a miracle in itself, with what he has what would you estimate is the max his machine could handle (in SLI of course) with some of the older cards? My best guess is a 9800 gtx. Can anyone comment on how a 200 series might perform on his machine? Would the pcie 1 & proc create too much of a bottleneck to run any of the 200 series?

12-29-10, 05:21 PM	#1
Tessa Grey Wolf Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: CG 96 Posts: 861 Downloads: 22 Uploads: 0	Nvidia Question Ok, I've got a friend that's asked me to install a pair of 460's in sli so he can use the 3-D vision, personally I could care less but he's willing to shell out the money for the cards. Problem is this guy is extremely stubborn, to make this work properly he needs at least a new proc/motherboard; which he is reluctant to replace. He thinks his 5 year old amd fx-62 (a good proc, just not enough juice for newer games) is still top shelf. Since I can't get him to do the right thing and buy an i5 and new board, I'm stuck trying to figure out what he can use with what he has - amd fx-62 and asus M2N32-sli deluxe. He is obsessed with SLI, his rig must have sli regardless of whether it actually is giving him any performance gain; not the smartest thing to do but its what he has to have. To try and get 1 460 to run on his machine would be a miracle in itself, with what he has what would you estimate is the max his machine could handle (in SLI of course) with some of the older cards? My best guess is a 9800 gtx. Can anyone comment on how a 200 series might perform on his machine? Would the pcie 1 & proc create too much of a bottleneck to run any of the 200 series?