Looking for a new card, suggestions?

As the subject says, I'm looking to buy a new card. This is my current
system: ASUS P5N32-E Plus, QuadCore Q6600, 9800GTX+ 178.13s, 2 Raptor
74gb & 150gb, 2 SATA 200gb, 4gb Corsair DDR2 1066, OCZ 700W PS, HP
DVD-RW, X-Fi 64mb Pro, 22" NEC Fe2111SB, Vista64 SP1, Tai Chi
watercooled case. What do you think would be good and hopefully last a
while with potential to be kept with other components upgraded in the
future? Thanks!

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As the subject says, I'm looking to buy a new card. This is my current
system: ASUS P5N32-E Plus, QuadCore Q6600, 9800GTX+ 178.13s, 2 Raptor
74gb & 150gb, 2 SATA 200gb, 4gb Corsair DDR2 1066, OCZ 700W PS, HP
DVD-RW, X-Fi 64mb Pro, 22" NEC Fe2111SB, Vista64 SP1, Tai Chi
watercooled case. What do you think would be good and hopefully last a
while with potential to be kept with other components upgraded in the
future? Thanks!

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Up your CPU to a Q9300 or 9400 first and get back to us. The Core 2
scales very well.

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As the subject says, I'm looking to buy a new card. This is my current
system: ASUS P5N32-E Plus, QuadCore Q6600, 9800GTX+ 178.13s, 2 Raptor
74gb & 150gb, 2 SATA 200gb, 4gb Corsair DDR2 1066, OCZ 700W PS, HP
DVD-RW, X-Fi 64mb Pro, 22" NEC Fe2111SB, Vista64 SP1, Tai Chi
watercooled case. What do you think would be good and hopefully last a
while with potential to be kept with other components upgraded in the
future? Thanks!

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I suggest you carefully measure case clearances and card length if looking
at the GTX 260/280/295 family. They make a 9800GTX+ look small.

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As the subject says, I'm looking to buy a new card. This is my
current system: ASUS P5N32-E Plus, QuadCore Q6600, 9800GTX+ 178.13s,
2 Raptor 74gb & 150gb, 2 SATA 200gb, 4gb Corsair DDR2 1066, OCZ 700W
PS, HP DVD-RW, X-Fi 64mb Pro, 22" NEC Fe2111SB, Vista64 SP1, Tai Chi
watercooled case. What do you think would be good and hopefully last
a while with potential to be kept with other components upgraded in
the future? Thanks!

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Up your CPU to a Q9300 or 9400 first and get back to us. The Core 2
scales very well.

I think you'll find there's no BIOS support past the Q6700 or E8600.

On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 04:37:06 GMT, "Augustus"
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I suggest you carefully measure case clearances and card length if looking
at the GTX 260/280/295 family. They make a 9800GTX+ look small.

You sure about that? Mine is 10.5" and that's the exact same length of
the 295GTXs I've looked at. Also, if you noticed the case I have it's
actually quite large so it's a non-issue. Thanks for mentioning it
though.

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On Thu, 12 Mar 2009 22:28:18 -0500, deimos deimos@localhost wrote:

Up your CPU to a Q9300 or 9400 first and get back to us. The Core 2
scales very well.

Just got it so I'm not going to get rid of it yet, plus my board
doesn't support those CPUs you mentioned. Thanks for the tip anyway.

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On Fri, 13 Mar 2009 19:08:59 +1100, "DRS"
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I think you'll find there's no BIOS support past the Q6700 or E8600.

Correct. See he
http://support.asus.com/cpusupport/c...E%20SLI%20Plus

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