17?, Core 2 X6800(2.93),512mb 8600/8700 GT

Woah! No joke? 8700 SLI by the end of THIS week? (I plan to buy mid-august/october, so that's great news for me!)

 

i may have to amend that... thats wat PCmicro is changing their site to include. HOWEVER, after speaking to a surprisingly nasty representative from clevo, who sarcastically wishes me luck with that, he states that these companies (i called more than just PCmicro and others said they to would have it as well) are LYING!... that clevo had pushed back their original ETA to mid-august... this is troubling news to me...
i need this for the end of august, i also asked about the E6850 to many other companies, i may have stated this but PC micro said it didnt work, while Avadirect seemed very optimistic that it can be done.
I'm afraid im just talking to sales reps who know NOTHING. How can i get through to the ppl who actually build the comps at these companies, ppl who may know a thing or two about them.

 

Umm yea theoretically it makes sense it should work But I didn't want to say it would or would not for sure. They are both core 2 duo chips though. And for the performance, if you aren't overclocking, the x6800 is actually worse in specs. Could comparing their specs solve it? Say the sockets or something like that? I'm not 100% on CPU replacements.


On the other hand, excellent news on the 8700m SLI!!! You saw the report on the first page saying that one 8700m could handle Crysis really well? I imagine 2 of those careds in SLI should cover a lot of games If worse comes to worse, you can get that x6800 CPU or just go with the next alternative, slightly less performance and a lot lower price (better value?).

I'll be checking their site toward the end of the week to see their new offerings.

 

i plan to price my system at about 3100.... in that price will hopefully be SLi 8700s with the 2.66 ghz processor... cuz apparently its the gfx cards that are the bottleneck, so the processor can be less. That with 2 gigs of ram. I pretty much settled on getting the D900 too, which is what all the companies use as their test model cuz it hands everything! im currently on continued contact with both avadirect and PCmicro, ill keep updating what they tell me over the fone throughout the week. Im surprised again about how nasty Sager's fone service was, especially for such, as he put themselves "consumeratists"... nitey nite

 

With SLI your CPU will be your bottleneck.

 

doubtful.

depends on the game, of course.

 

Ahh Wu Jen is a PC Microworks customer

And look at that system he got there! That's an incredible 3d score!!!

Something that isn't so published but that I am wondering about...what is the weight of your system? Is it over 12 pounds?

 

haha.. wow, back to the CPU bottlenecking, so which is better
A) 2.66 ghz, 8700s SLi
B) 2.93 ghz, 8700 single
btw... im using 8700s cuz they should be ready a week from now, and even tho i know the 7950s will probably still be faster, i wanna be DX10 secure
i would love to get what you got Wu Jen, but damn that costs ALOT lol

and yea undspted, its gonna be about 12 pounds, but hey i need a desktop replacement, and i work out

 

The CPU shouldn't be the bottleneck. A C2D E4300 is barely bottlenecking a Geforce 8800GTX (some older games and lower resolutions). And go7950GTX and 8700M GT in SLI are not nearly as powerful as that. So you'll be fine with a E6600 and up.

For max performance, go for the 2,66GHz/SLI combo

 

for the price? Go with the 2.66Ghz and SLI. I plan on upgrading (around Christmas) when the X6900 is release and the 8800's appear.
3.2Ghz Core 2 Duo and SLI 8800 GTX's = very nice playing power.

 

ur not gonna do it urself tho.. r u? you got pc micro's diamond plan?