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.