New Rig

[deadsanchez]

Just ordered it. Oh yea!

CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (QUAD)
Video:  eVGA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB
Motherboard: eVGA NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX
Ram:  CORSAIR Dominator 2GB (PC2 8500) w/ Airflow fan
PSU:  OCZ GameXStream (700W Power Supply)

and bringing over from my current pc:

A couple SATA harddrives and my Xfi-Audigy.
and my 30" Apple Cinema Display

This page in the Anandtech article sold me on Quad:
http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2868&p=9

Notice the VRAD benchmark.

[Dr.Jeckyl]

nice....  
*surpresses the envy* :wink:

[MONOLITH]

My new rig;   :wink:  


CPU  3 symmetrical cores running at 3.2 GHz each
2 hardware threads per core; 6 hardware threads total
1 VMX-128 vector unit per core; 3 total
128 VMX-128 registers per hardware thread
1 MB L2 cache

 
CPU Game Math Performance  9 billion dot product operations per second
 
Custom ATI Graphics Processor  500 MHz
10 MB embedded DRAM
48-way parallel floating-point dynamically-scheduled shader pipelines
Unified shader architecture
 
Polygon Performance  500 million triangles per second
 
Pixel Fill Rate  16 gigasamples per second fillrate using 4X MSAA
 
Shader Performance  48 billion shader operations per second
 
Memory  512 MB GDDR3 RAM
700 MHz DDR
Unified memory architecture
 
Memory Bandwidth  22.4 GB/s memory interface bus bandwidth
256 GB/s memory bandwidth to EDRAM
21.6 GB/s front-side bus
 
Overall System Floating-Point Performance  1 TFLOP
 
 
HD Game Support  All games supported at 16:9, 720p and 1080i, anti-aliasing
Standard definition and high definition video output supported
 
Audio  Multichannel surround sound output
Supports 48 KHz 16-bit audio
320 independent decompression channels
32-bit audio processing
Over 256 audio channels

[deadsanchez]

still impressive the xbox360's specs.

I will be playing 2560x1600 though. High High Definition

[MONOLITH]

:cookie:



(and mine only cost $400). :tongue:

[deadsanchez]

and i cant play GOW

[MindlessOath]

check out this rig...
http://www.theinquirer.net/default.aspx?article=35740

its not intel, but amd's new slice to the table.

[Zoog]

Just ordered it. Oh yea!

CPU: Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 (QUAD)
Video:  eVGA GeForce 8800GTX 768MB
Motherboard: eVGA NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI ATX
Ram:  CORSAIR Dominator 2GB (PC2 8500) w/ Airflow fan
PSU:  OCZ GameXStream (700W Power Supply)

and bringing over from my current pc:

A couple SATA harddrives and my Xfi-Audigy.
and my 30" Apple Cinema Display

This page in the Anandtech article sold me on Quad:
http://www.anandtech.com/tradeshows/showdoc.aspx?i=2868&p=9

Notice the VRAD benchmark.

price?

[deadsanchez]

VGA EVGA 768-P2-N831-AR 8800GTX R - Retail (Qty=1, Price=$659.99)
CPU THERMPASTE|ARCTIC SILVER5 3.5G% - OEM (Qty=1, Price=$5.99)
MB EVGA 122-CK-NF68-AR NF680I 775 - Retail (Qty=1, Price=$259.99)
MEM 1Gx2|COR TWIN2X2048-8500C5D R - Retail (Qty=1, Price=$387.00)
PSU OCZ|OCZ700GXSSLI 700W RT - Retail (Qty=1, Price=$149.99)
FAN CORSAIR XMS|CMXAF1 RTL - Retail (Qty=1, Price=$19.99)

Intel Core 2 Extreme QX6700 2.66GHz / 8MB Cache / 1066MHz FSB / Quad-Core / OEM / Socket 775 / Processor (CP2-DUO-QX6700) 1,124.98

Total: $2714

Not a bad deal, of course I'm using my old Lian Li case and My current Harddrives and Optical Drives. That helps with the price.