Tri-Crossfire...

[=98=]

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remeber to buy the nvidia sli certified cooling fan!

Your not a real man unless all your computer parts are branded by a high end company!

[Stalker8888]

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I wonder how hot that thing runs? Anyone able to ID that Wattage on that power supply?

Yeah it's 6500 watt PSU

[megawhompertoo]

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Apparently your a real loser if you don't have these parts. Seriously, purchase them or die (drunk again...)

wooT!!! forums + beer get me in more *&^% trouble...

back on topic...erm...just say no to global worming? for perspective, that was 6+1 pci-e cards, any of the six which would game with very high quality all by their lonesome when put into separate systems.

wouldn't you melt the northbridge fairly quickly, if not the mobo regulators that are having to send 75W ea to each pci-e slot?

not a sound idea.

[The Laughing Man]

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wouldn't you melt the northbridge fairly quickly, if not the mobo regulators that are having to send 75W ea to each pci-e slot?

Yeah but imagine BF2 on a concert hall sized screen.

[=98=]

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Yeah but imagine BF2 on a concert hall sized screen.

That would be hard. I wouldn't know where to look.

[BlacK.FoX]

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Um why? Get a decent board stick a 8800GTX in it and bang you're done. If you wanna waste money then sure go ahead and buy an Ultra instead of a 8800GTX but why do you want a

1). 2 GPUs when you can do everything you need with just a single card?
2). A seperate physics card when hardly any games exist that require one?

It can't be for future proofing because to date every new top end card has surpassed two Sli'd versions of older cards costing the same price and frankly I can't see that changing any time soon especially if the rumours about just how powerful Nvidias next cards are going to be are true.

Also with multi-core CPUs developers have already caught on that they can use a single CPU core to render physics effects instead of using a dedicated card.

All in all it just seems like a colossal waste of cash.

There is absolutley no point in getting an Ultra unless you run at a resolution in excess of 1650x1050, that also answers your "(1," as for "(2" Crysis will make use of Physics cards, in the forseeable future there are 7 games that will use it.:shock:

[System]

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There is absolutley no point in getting an Ultra unless you run at a resolution in excess of 1650x1050, that also answers your "(1," as for "(2" Crysis will make use of Physics cards, in the forseeable future there are 7 games that will use it.:shock:

EYE CANDY EYE CANDY EYEY CADNY!!! - For those who love high FPS!!

As for the physics card, thats $150 +. So, when you buy your new games, prolly $$50-80 too, add another 150 to that. When you buy another one that uses it, you can then add $75 on top of the price.

You see where I'm coming from? Future proofing? May as well wait for the second generation of phys cards to come out, if they even make it that far.

Hey! random thought here, this is starting to sound like a gaming consol now isn't it? To play this game, you need to buy this card... Oh well, we'll see how the phys card makes out soon enough I guess.

[BlacK.FoX]

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;P I dont think im gonna go with a Phisics card quiiittteeee yet...mabey in Q2 of 2008 or somthing...when there are a wider veriety of Phisx card required, or helpfull games...couldnt word that right, im tired :)

[System]

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;P I dont think im gonna go with a Phisics card quiiittteeee yet...mabey in Q2 of 2008 or somthing...when there are a wider veriety of Phisx card required, or helpfull games...couldnt word that right, im tired :)

haha, that was what I was getting at in my post above ^^ so I understand totally :yay:

[BlacK.FoX]

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yeah, but I still dont understand spending money on Three "count them" Three cards...I mean, if your an enthusiest, with a lot of money, then I can see you doing it for some laughs, or just an odd bragging right, but thats just my opinion, I "was" a long time supporter of ATI, but my new pc is going AMD+Nvidia, but wait....ATI merged with AMD, sigh...I think too much.

[megawhompertoo]

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yeah, but I still dont understand spending money on Three "count them" Three cards...I mean, if your an enthusiest, with a lot of money, then I can see you doing it for some laughs, or just an odd bragging right, but thats just my opinion, I "was" a long time supporter of ATI, but my new pc is going AMD+Nvidia, but wait....ATI merged with AMD, sigh...I think too much.

I'm buying atiamd (daamit) video cards and intel cpu's. therefore, i'd like to think i support the non-monopoly, even if i'm supporting a duopoly.

[solofowaffles]

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i kinda hope ati pulls their stuff toghther or else itll just be a monopoloy:[

[System]

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i kinda hope ati pulls their stuff toghther or else itll just be a monopoloy:[

They arn't like AMD. Let me explain...

AMD use to be the top of the line cpu. They relied on this fact for their revenue. Since the C2D is destroying AMD's cpus, they are now mid class, something that takes a huge impact on a market aimed at being high end technology.

ATI lastly I recall, has always been the mid end video cards - the cheap solution. They don't focus their market on the top of line cards, but everything else. Yes, their counter to the 8800 was a failure but it won't destroy them.

[camper.]

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They arn't like AMD. Let me explain...

AMD use to be the top of the line cpu. They relied on this fact for their revenue. Since the C2D is destroying AMD's cpus, they are now mid class, something that takes a huge impact on a market aimed at being high end technology.

ATI lastly I recall, has always been the mid end video cards - the cheap solution. They don't focus their market on the top of line cards, but everything else. Yes, their counter to the 8800 was a failure but it won't destroy them.

ATI's high end cards slaughter nVidia's for the last generation (x1xx vs 7xxx). Too bad the next is an epic fail, the 8800GTS outdoes it in part.

[BlacK.FoX]

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Yea, I dont agree with the mid-range ati, ATI lead the pack with the first DX9 compatible card, since then they have dominated the playing field in DX9, excluding the 7950 GX2 I believe. But....I am going to also buy a AMD/ATI FX-62 with my new rig...I always felt safer with AMD, my intel C2D E6700 feals to breakable for some reason.