Three High-End Gaming Systems Compared

[rambo117]

i must say though that i was a little bit dissapointed to see a $6000+ rig STILL not being total crysis ownage. its been almost 2 years since the games realease and we still have yet to see some skyrocketing FPS in that game. that would be pretty sweeet if crysis could take advantage of 8cores!! 😀

 

[Guest]

Putting 4GB of Ram and 4GB of video RAM into a computer and testing with a 32bit operating system is foolish at best. In a situation like that the system wont be able to address even half of the available memory. Please run your 32bit tests on Vista x64 and you will get actual benchmarks that people can use.

 

[jaragon13]

Who the hell honestly puts on 4 times AA on 2560x1600 and DOESN'T buy top end? Hell,1920x1200P would be nice for me....

 

[Guest]

I for one cannot even fathom a better way to p!ss money away than by buying any one of these rigs - in this current global economic crisis notwithstanding. A fool and his money indeed.

 

[radguy]

Thats exactly what I was thinking Blacktron. 4Gb of video memory alone and using a 32bit os. Just a dumb idea.

 

[Duncan NZ]

oKay, Forest, I'm very drunk soo if it this doesn't make sense don't pick me, but 2 points. a) you need Ton's needs an editor. This is shown by low article quality, which,lets be honest, you know/will know from the feedback, and has veeb far far lower sice whatsit media (bestof?) took over. Okay, I believe cangelini is you current editor? No offense, but a native english speaker would be a huge advanyage, (I really, really aware I'm not making a good impression, but please , this is just o get you to listen to my sober messages).
I don't know if you are or not) I don't know wtf is ging on, being fucking pissed, but please contact me, I think it will be beneficial both ways

 

[Crashman]

Note on the 3-way SLI: Some of us believe that the performance limitations in these tests were caused by the Skulltrail motherboard and FB-DIMM memory.

 

[Guest]

why using 32 bit for benchmarking? under 32 bit, a process can only utilize 1.67gigs of ram. and in SupCom and Crysis, it's indeed a limiting factor (both could use more). either you switch, or your memory will run out and you have a swapping hdd. and sudden freezes/drops in performance.

what is the problem with the ati multimonitor setup? i had an x1600pro, an x800gto, and now i have a hd3870... and all three did/do fine with two monitors/tvs. under games and under desktop works/multimedia too. and they're better at watching films, as NV cards. however under SLI, you can forgot multimonitor setups.

nice systems, but i like my homebreed one;> and for this amount of money, you can breed a very-very good one. there are some interesting features, but the cooling is inadequate imho for this level of a rig. it's like finding out, that you have lada seats in your rolls... they do the job, but hey, you wold see some more bling for the buck. i mean a 2x2/3x3 radiator, and water cooled video cards, at minimum (from the gtx280, there is an MSI version with factory WC link).

 

[1pp1k10k4m1]

For these prices why wouldn't you just buy a Mac Pro and install boot camp and run windows? That's what i've done and I can play anything at very best settings without any lag whatsoever. And I have the benefits of having both OSes at my disposal. Buying a system like the ones reviewed seems insane for the price. I usually love Toms stuff, but I really disagree with this. My Mac Pro cost less than half of some of these, and I have 10GB of RAM, 2 64-bit OSes, Dual 3.2 GHz Quad Core, space for 4 video cards, as well as a ton of other stuff.

 

[mdma35]

[citation][nom]wahdangun[/nom]ATI FTW, who said that radeon card not good for crysisit's even beat tri SLI.nvidia must be shocking with this result.[/citation]
not by far. Even 2 way SLI Blackbird with cpu clocked lower matches and even at lower resolutions beats Falcon.At higher resolution with AA enabled X24870X2 configuration uses the max of its 4gigs of GDDR and SLI configuration of Blackbird has only 2.Lets wait for 280x2 cards in adition with new driver it will blow away ATI i think .