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662025 2008-04-24 03:10:00 ""Firing up a borrowed copy of Crysis, the latest and greatest first-person PC shooter which is notorious for bringing even the most powerful PCs to their knees, the Skulltrail barely broke a sweat as I blasted my way through the games first levels.""


What a load of drivel, seems like this article was written by the PR department at Intel.

Yes I concur, Anandtech for some reason has been doing alot of reviews using this board......silly thing is, the Quad core board are a better bet as they use DDR3 RAM, this thing is using high latency FBDimms, like my servers......
I believe Anand use this because it will do crossfire & SLI on the same platform.
SolMiester (139)
662026 2008-04-24 03:10:00 FOUR high-end graphics cards at least! :eek:

WHY?

But the mb only supports a max of 8GB RAM (that's only 1GB per core!)

Would've thought at least 16 :lol:


www.youtube.com
Battleneter2 (9361)
662027 2008-04-24 03:15:00 Wow, what OS do you use on this monster to make use of all that super sexy hardware?

DOS :D
pctek (84)
662028 2008-04-24 03:28:00 I'll rephrase me earlier droolage.

That would be a nice machine for rendering off video.

And some more RAM would be good, like 2GB per core.
wratterus (105)
662029 2008-04-24 04:12:00 www.youtube.com

nice system, but what the heck is that aussie saying at ~2min point? "All I can say is quad SLI is woot and Crysis is woot" ?
Deathwish (143)
662030 2008-04-24 04:28:00 He said that crysis is "Whooped"
As in "lets open a can of Whoop @rse on crysis"
GeneralKanos (13592)
662031 2008-04-24 06:12:00 Thanks, that makes alot more sense than what I thought he said :) Deathwish (143)
662032 2008-04-24 06:15:00 And seriously....He really did whoop Crysis... I mean that is sweet rendering power man. But would anyone REALLY spend like $4-5000 on a pc?
Quad SLI is overkill man....
GeneralKanos (13592)
662033 2008-04-24 06:19:00 And seriously....He really did whoop Crysis... I mean that is sweet rendering power man. But would anyone REALLY spend like $4-5000 on a pc?
Quad SLI is overkill man....

There are people that spend $3,000.
Laptops for that same high end could be up to $5,000.

One of my laptops wasn't fast, builtin video, just above avg CPU cos it was a portable (ultra) design valued at $4,500 which I bought it 1yr used for $2,500.

Doesn't appliance stores sell some family PCs (specd) for around $4,500?
Nomad (952)
662034 2008-04-24 06:20:00 Check this out (www.nzherald.co.nz)

If you can afford it, (or if you own the power company), this supports dual QUAD core (LGA 771 not LGA 775), so up to 8 CPU cores

But be prepared to pay around $1150 just for the mobo.

The ram is also different to normal DDR ram, so will cost a lot more

And it may need a 1200 W PSU :cool:

I'm not even a gamer and I'm impressed by that review :thumbs: Only thing Pat missed was the price for the whole setup rather than just the mother board.



Doesn't appliance stores sell some family PCs (specd) for around $4,500?

That would be a fairly average price at the higher end for Hardly Normals although its not even the top end.
vitalstatistix (9182)
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