Deepimpact

Well as you can see I have a Nvidia nforce 790i Ultra MB. That came with my alienware computer right now the Fsb is at 1333. Since I am now looking to ugrade this board I was wodering if I could replace my DDR3 2xG 1066 memory for DDR3 2xG 2000 memory i will also be replacing the E8200 CPU with the Q9450 and my GPU from the geforce 9600gt to the new 9800gx2, and finally change the on board realtek audio to a reality X-fi xtremegamer fetal1y pro series sound card. Can these upgrades be possible without any issues if I don't plan to OC at the moment?

Mattb2e

Depends on the board manufacturer, the nvidia 790i is just the chipset, I would imagine that the board would support a quad of the 45nm process as it supports the c2d of the same process. I believe that the memory upgrade is unnecessary as you wont see much of a difference in performance, their should be no problems with the gpu upgrade at all. Although why a 9800gx2? wouldnt 2 9800gtx's perform better, you have sli why not use it?

smoke12291

you should be fine

just make sure to download drivers for your hardware.

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marsey99

alienware are doing asus and corsair stuff atm iirc.

have you tried overclocking your 8200? if your only gaming it will do as well if not better than a quad for 99% of the games on the market and i would bet you can get higher speeds from that duo than yo would from a quad too.


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o yea, your board should take the faster ram but i think you will need to overclock the board to those speeds as im not sure it will do it itself, jdec standards and that.

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wildfire99

the board is evga i imagine if u guys care as ive seen some1 rma evga for a new 790i board and get back a alienware one lol.

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Deepimpact

It's Nvidia i have looked at all the other MB and none look the same but the on the Nvidia website http://www.nvidia.com/object/nforce_790i_ultra_sli.html thats my MB for sure.

But at the moment I'm not looking to SLI i want to use a single GPU at the moment for room purposes i really don't do allot of serious gaming neither and i have read that 9800gx2 are really good GPU for single use.

Deepimpact

Well i have no idea how to OC i try ed it once and the computer began to lock up and flicker things it scared the crap out of me so i went back to factory setting and have left it alone ever since. As far as the memory why do you think i am going to have to OC instead of the MB doing it automatically to get the 2000Mhz speed/times if the MB supports it?

marsey99

had a read and you should have no trouble with those ram speeds but you should contact alienware about who it recomends to make the ram for compatability.

overclocking is easy once you get your head around the basics, but the main issue for most is temps, with your freezezone and a e8200 temps wont get in the way untill you throw a massive amount of voltage thru the cpu. which you dont really want to do because its belived that these 45nm cpu are brittle and cant take that much voltage anyway.

check the boards for others with the same or start your own and see what others with your stuff are getting from their boards, the penryn thread linked in my sig has alot of info too.

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Deepimpact

Thank you for your response but thats how i got in trouble in the first place everyone says its easy but i opened a account here with Overclock.net for that reason to see if i could learn to OC my E8200 and found some great posts but unfortunately i had those problems were it would lock up and flicker stuff and it really did scare me so i decided not to mess with it I'm trying to find friends that know how to see if they can help me lol.

mrtn400

I want to know why you bought an Alienware if you're planning on swapping out most of the parts.

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