This game looks great on my PC. It also looks pretty damn good on our playstation 3. Fun game. They should be stoked on their achievment. It also is alot less buggy than the 1st one, it seems.
Check out the specs of the test system...just the 6-core cpu is 1k, not to mention the $400.00 motherboard, and $300.00 SSD HD.....holy crap batman!! I am actually surprized that they don't have 24g of ram in it, talk about underkilling the overkill!! The monitor you would need to run this high of res is going to be ridiculously priced also. Pretty cool to see them in action though....i'll stick with my gtx285 oc/2g w/intel 920, it plays everything on max @ 60fps/1920x1200, which is all my lowly 60hz monitor will do anyway!! (except for crysis, of course!)
By the time you spend all of your money to build this thing, you might as well have bought a MAC PRO. That thing is a mult-tasking beast. This is not for gaming. I don't know why this is on a gaming sight. NOw, someone like me, I would use it for gaming because of the SLI option, but also for so much more, (music production, Video editiing, photoshop). And yes, I can just imagine the BSOD's this thing will throw for the first few months.
@Trinity I'm just kidding. I hope ATi keeps this up. It will make the price of the stuff I buy cheaper. You have to admit though, the 8800 has had an impressive run. If ATI does something impressive, I will switch to them. But since I already have 3X8800GTX's in SLI (right place at the right time, mind you), I'm set for now. And, I was really rooting for the phenom, but that new intel wolfdale chip is really cool. I just got one yesterday (E8400). I also really like the Nvidia motherboards, have had great luck with those. I even have an old NF4 with an x2 4400+ in it. It is a workhorse. I am waiting for ATI/AMD to work out the bugs, and maybe even step it up a bit so I can build a crossfire box. I am a hardware enthusiast, and I do like to test different platforms. They kind of made me mad with the socket 939 to AM2 conversion. I had just bought my 939 and they switched on me. Have a good one. Game on!!
These cards don't do crossfire yet? They are going to need 2 of these cards in crossfire to beat 1 9800 card. they better get going......Hurry, run out and buy one, crossfire is coming soon, so you better buy 2. Better take their word for it also.....Wait a minute, is it going to take another year? who knows..... So far AMD/ATI has yet to come out with a Nvidia (G80)/Intel (c2d) killer.... Nvidia will have to make the same mistakes they made in the past for this to happen. Hopefully they have learned their lesson.
Where do you people get your information? Please post the link on Nvidia releasing it's 9800 cards next month. And, yes, make sure it is a link from a reputable source. Otherwise, Put up or shut-up. And that crap about Nvidia boosting its cards to an unsupported thermal level is totally a bunch of ATI suck-up propaganda. They just don't do stuff like that. I doubt even AMD/ATI themselves buy into that story. Let's all believe everything we read on the web!! Like I said before, if anything, this just helps Nvidia, because now, they can wait to release the 9800 series, and make sure they get it right. Look at the numbers, not only here, but elsewhere, the ATI X2 does barely beat an 8800GTX. It better, the GTX is over a year old!!! Why did it take them this long? And they are telling me that there will be support for crossfire in the future? When in the future? A year from now....a month.....2 years? By then there will be something new out that smokes two of these cards. I know one thing, Nvidia is not worried, and, they are probably tickled by these numbers. Look at the numbers.....If you already have a GTX Card, go get another one, and an SLI motherboard. The perfermance to price ratio over X2 is stil much better. I am not a fanboy, I just go where the performance and quality is,. And right now, Nivdia is that place, along with intel. I have had my core2, 680i and 8800GTX card (the 1st one) for over a year. That is saying something for an enthusiast. Who knows, in two years I may have ATI/AMD in my computer (again), but they better get with it. XBOX 360 PEOPLE ---- SHUT UP!! This is a forum on V-i-d-e-o C-a-r-d-s, not how much you love your XBOX, or how you can't afford a PC. All's I can say, is, your seriously missing out!!!
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