Need some help upgrading.

[Tte. Costa]

S. all Gents.
I plan to upgrade my Pc for CLoD and I need some advice.

Is this a good choice?
Procesadores Socket 1366
Intel® Core™ i7-960 Prozessor
4x 3200 MHz, 4x 256 kByte, 8192 kByte, Bloomfield

MoBo Socket 1366
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0
Intel® X58 Express, ATX, 4 PCIe 2.0 x16, SLI, Crossfire, 1366

Solid State Drive SATA de 2,5"
Corsair Force F120 2,5" SSD 120 GB
120,0 GB, 285 / 275 MB/s, € 1,62*

Módulos de memoria DDR3-1066
Kingston ValueRAM Tri-Kit DIMM 6 GB DDR3-1066
6144 MB, CL7 7-7, 3, PC3 8500


Arctic-Cooling Freezer Xtreme Rev.2
775, 939, AM2, AM2+, 1366, 1156, AM3, 1155, 60,7 m³/h, Todos los modelos


Or better this one?

Procesadores Socket 1366
Intel® Core™ i7-970 Prozessor
6x 3200 MHz, 6x 256 kByte, 12244 kByte, Gulftown

MoBo Socket 1366
GIGABYTE GA-X58A-UD3R Rev. 2.0
Intel® X58 Express, ATX, 4 PCIe 2.0 x16, SLI, Crossfire, 1366

Solid State Drive SATA de 2,5"
Corsair Force F120 2,5" SSD 120 GB
120,0 GB, 285 / 275 MB/s, € 1,62*

Módulos de memoria DDR3-1066
Kingston ValueRAM DIMM 12 GB DDR3-1066 Tri-Kit
12288 MB, CL7, 3, PC3 8500

Ventilador
Arctic-Cooling Freezer Xtreme Rev.2
775, 939, AM2, AM2+, 1366, 1156, AM3, 1155, 60,7 m³/h,


The GPU I´m thinking about is:
GIGABYTE GV-R699D5-4GD-B (AMD Radeon HD 6990 4096 MB 2x256 bits PCIe 2.0 x16)
But: As IL-2 CLoD don´t support SLI-Crossfire. Is this card with 2 GPU going to use only one?

Tx very much in advance.

Atte. Costa

[Ataros]

Socket 1155 will be better I think. And 1 GPU videocard 580 or 6970-2gb. You can add another one if you wish later.

[jibo]

agreed don't go further 6970 or switch nvidia, the 6990 is a overloaded cow

[Tte. Costa]

Tx very much gents.
So:
In few words, upgrade but not that much. (thats a good news for my pocket :) )

[Stefem]

Just a remind, SSD can't improve in game performance.

[Tte. Costa]

Tx sir.
I thought that a faster reading HD would be better for games.

[JG14_Jagr]

A lot of your hardware is TOP notch cutting edge but it won't actually give you that much improvement in game..

You could save quite a bit going with an i5 2500K CPU, and buying a 6990 is crazy right now.. get a 6970 and a mobo that will eventually allow Xfire if you want bleeding edge graphics performance.. I think 1 6970 will be plenty for this game..

[Tte. Costa]

Tx very much for your help.
After reading your comments I´ll go for:

CPU Socket 1155
Intel® Core™ i7-2600K
4x 3400 MHz, 4x 256 kByte, 8192 kByte, Sandy Bridge


MoBo Socket 1155
ASUS SABERTOOTH P67 R.3.0
Intel® P67 Express, ATX, 2x PCIe 2.0 x16, SLI, Crossfire, 1155

HD SATA de 3,5"
Western Digital WD5001AALS 500 GB
500,0 GB, -/32/7200, € 0,11*, Serial ATA/30

DDR3-1333
Kingston HyperX DIMM 8 GB DDR3-1333 Kit
8192 MB, CL9 9-9, 2, PC3 10600

GPU AMD Radeon HD 6000
MSI R6970-2PM2D2GD5
AMD Radeon HD 6970, 2048 MB, 256 bits, PCIe 2.0 x16

What you think?

[Katana1000S]

Looks good, I have a similar spec.

My SSD seems to help with the stutters, at least I don't get them and did not on day one release of IL2 CoD, it certainly helps with loading stuff quicker, if you can afford it ... why not.

Enjoy.

[kendo65]

Only a minor suggestion - DDR3-1600 ram in tests is the current sweet spot giving some extra fps over 1333.

Anything faster not really useful at this time.

[Tte. Costa]

Tx very much to all, you are a very big help!
Tx for the advice Kendo, but it seems that Intel® Core™ i7-2600K is not DDR3-1600 compatible.

[Stefem]

Looks good, I have a similar spec.

My SSD seems to help with the stutters, at least I don't get them and did not on day one release of IL2 CoD, it certainly helps with loading stuff quicker, if you can afford it ... why not.

Enjoy.

I've only HDD and I've never experienced stutter in CoD, fore sure SSD will improve loading time but it can make a RAID with HDD and use the saved money for a better graphics card

[kendo65]

Tx very much to all, you are a very big help!
Tx for the advice Kendo, but it seems that Intel® Core™ i7-2600K is not DDR3-1600 compatible.

Actually, i'm sure that it is - i'm using DDR3-1600 memory with my i5-2500K.

I do recall seeing some confusing info that suggested 1333 was the fastest I could use without overclocking, but that turned out to be due to limitations of certain motherboards rather than the Sandy Bridge cpus. My Asus P8P67 runs DDR3-1600 at stock settings and I could easily plug in a i7-2600K if I wanted. :)

One additional piece of advice is to get 1.5V memory for Sandy Bridge rather than 1.65V - ensures the CPU is running at correct settings and helpful if you overclock.

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Edit: Did some reading - officially the SBs are in fact only rated for up to DDR3-1333 memory, BUT...they can run 1600 and higher. Tests done by custom PC magazine (UK) found benefits from running 1600 over 1333 (a few fps in some games) but no real benefit from going for 1800 or 2133. Hope this all makes sense. :)

[DrususAvantar]

I've got quite similiar question.
My current PC is not bad, but since I put it together myself and do not overclock it might get better. Also, you might have some valuable input on what to change in the future to get CoD run smooth and get max out of it. He're the spec, feel free to berate / comment in any way. Thanks!

Intel Core i7 930 2,80 GHz
Seagate 1 TB Barracuda 7200.12 (32MB, Serial ATA II)
Kingston HyperX DDR3 2X 2GB 1600MHz Intel XMP CL9
EVGA X58 SLI Classified
GeForce GTX 580 OC MSI 1536MB TWINFROZ
Be-quiet Dark Power P7-PRO-850W PSU
CoolerMaster Stacker 832 Black
Saitek X52 Flight Control System
Saitek Pro Flight Rudder Pedals
Razer Lycosa keyboard
Razer Mamba mouse
Razer Megalodon headset
Windows 7 64bit

Drusus

[kendo65]

Looks pretty good to me.

Only thing might be to consider overclocking the processor.

I've heard differing opinions on benefit of 8GB ram, so not sure whether it is really worthwhile at the moment.

Best probably to sit tight and wait for the patches to improve things.

[Stefem]

Looks pretty good to me.

Only thing might be to consider overclocking the processor.

I've heard differing opinions on benefit of 8GB ram, so not sure whether it is really worthwhile at the moment.

Best probably to sit tight and wait for the patches to improve things.

There's no benefit going beyond 4GB of RAM in CoD

[Oldschool61]

Tx very much for your help.
After reading your comments I´ll go for:

CPU Socket 1155
Intel® Core™ i7-2600K
4x 3400 MHz, 4x 256 kByte, 8192 kByte, Sandy Bridge


MoBo Socket 1155
ASUS SABERTOOTH P67 R.3.0
Intel® P67 Express, ATX, 2x PCIe 2.0 x16, SLI, Crossfire, 1155

HD SATA de 3,5"
Western Digital WD5001AALS 500 GB
500,0 GB, -/32/7200, € 0,11*, Serial ATA/30

DDR3-1333
Kingston HyperX DIMM 8 GB DDR3-1333 Kit
8192 MB, CL9 9-9, 2, PC3 10600

GPU AMD Radeon HD 6000
MSI R6970-2PM2D2GD5
AMD Radeon HD 6970, 2048 MB, 256 bits, PCIe 2.0 x16

What you think?

No OS ??