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major:
depends on your resolution. SLI in general isn't that great at low resolutions. But if your running a high resolution, then SLi will have benefits.

And a high resolution is usually 1680x1050 or higher.

kraid:
Also i think Source was much more related to CPU speed then GFX card, at least when it comes to shadders and stuff like this.
Only a new GFX card won't make a huge difference in your overall performance.
E.g. i got a Geforce 260GTX now and had a Radon HD2600XT before.
I cannot make out a real big difference in Source performance, only some shadders are looking somewhat different now, because i also changed from ATI to nVidea.

But since you got a kewl new quad core CPU, i think you'll be set to run everything maxed out.

Zippy:

--- Quote from: kraid on December 19, 2009, 11:00:37 am ---But since you got a kewl new quad core CPU, i think you'll be set to run everything maxed out.

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By the looks of it, Source doesn't seem to use ALL cores.  The only two Valve games I know of that uses all cores are Left 4 Dead and Left 4 Dead 2.

Wake[of]theBunT:
Yeah but since the standard hl2 apps only use one core, that means you can assign a single core to hl2 and redirect every other app to the other 3 and setting hl2.exe to high performance will also make the computer bias to it.

I only have an 8600GT and 2 gig memory and i can run CS:S maxed out. getting 40-60 frames constant

Zippy:

--- Quote from: Wake[of]theBunT on December 21, 2009, 07:08:13 am ---that means you can assign a single core to hl2 and redirect every other app to the other 3 and setting hl2.exe to high performance will also make the computer bias to it.

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Are you talking about the 'Set Priority' feature in the Task Manager?

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