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Nick its time to upgrade again

But yes boys you heard me correctly, the nVidia 7950 Gx2  is now on the market for the low price of $650, and the motherboard is another $300.

In reading the articles it looks like one of these cards is almost as good as two 7900GTX in SLi, and with two on the board, it just blows everything out of the water.

And in other news AMD is in talks to buy ATi. It looks like the two lesser players are going try and team up to take down the big boys (nVidia and Intel).

Cheers
Cameron

[quote]Nick its time to upgrade again

But yes boys you heard me correctly, the nVidia 7950 Gx2

You will need this PSU for Quad SLI power support...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.a ... 6817703004

The Boyz @ PCP&C rock

Man that PSU is freaking crazy. 1KW I would hate to see the electric bill.

However the running total currently for a Quad SLi system is $2100 just for the motherboard, 2 cards, and PSU. After RAM, HDD, DVD, Case, and processer were looking at about $2700~3000. And personally I feel if you spend $3000 on a single system that isn't  a server, its a little excesssive.

Cheers
Cameron

[quote]Man that PSU is freaking crazy. 1KW I would hate to see the electric bill.

However the running total currently for a Quad SLi system is $2100 just for the motherboard, 2 cards, and PSU. After RAM, HDD, DVD, Case, and processer were looking at about $2700~3000. And personally I feel if you spend $3000 on a single system that isn't

[quote]Man that PSU is freaking crazy. 1KW I would hate to see the electric bill.

However the running total currently for a Quad SLi system is $2100 just for the motherboard, 2 cards, and PSU. After RAM, HDD, DVD, Case, and processer were looking at about $2700~3000. And personally I feel if you spend $3000 on a single system that isn't

however you are made of money, so no problem here

Ramos

Lol, as that may be true their $1 bills I'm made of, so it only goes so far.

Naw the problem with quad SLi is that currently there isn't enough processing power for them. Once we get K8L and Kentsfield we should see some impressive benchmarks.

Cheers
Cameron

PS: Ramos forgot to tell ya, just bought a OCZ Platnum ED 2GB kit off the Egg yesterday. And in three weeks I'm getting a eVGA 7900GT KO and Zalman VF700Cu LED.

What kind of PSU?
And the HDD doesn't need to be that expensive, a 7200RPM 160GB does it for me, RAM 2GB, isn't that Expensive, and i already have a screen... So..
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Mees

Even without a Keyboard, mouse, and moniter

Intel Pentium D 950 $300
Gigabyte Quad SLi board $250
2x 7950Gx2s $1300
2GB of RAM $200
160GB SATA Drive $120
DVD ROM $35
Case $75
PSU $500
OS $100

Grand total $2880+

And if your shelling out $2100 for the main stuff you might as well get a Lian Li or Silverstone case ($200) and 2x 150GB Rapters ($160 ea). So ya the system is expensive.

Cheers
Cameron

Even without a Keyboard, mouse, and moniter

Intel Pentium D 950 $300
Gigabyte Quad SLi board $250
2x 7950Gx2s $1300
2GB of RAM $200
160GB SATA Drive $120
DVD ROM $35
Case $75
PSU $500
OS $100

Grand total $2880+

And if your shelling out $2100 for the main stuff you might as well get a Lian Li or Silverstone case ($200) and 2x 150GB Rapters ($160 ea). So ya the system is expensive.

Cheers
Cameron

so should i strangle you now and steal your computer, or just let you live and still steal your computer

im actually making arrangements to sell my PC and my Old mac for a new macbook pro. still beta thinking though.

Ramos

I'll find you the article, but there was a test done, and they found out that the Mac Book pro useing one of the intel processers ran windows faster than it ran OS X. They did the same test on the G-5 and it came up the same.

Looks like no matter what, windows will always just be better

Cheers
Cameron

I'll find you the article, but there was a test done, and they found out that the Mac Book pro useing one of the intel processers ran windows faster than it ran OS X. They did the same test on the G-5 and it came up the same.

Looks like no matter what, windows will always just be better

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Cameron

and blah blah blah, were moving on in life...

sure Xp is faster on a Mac, it's a half ass OS. Mac installs programs that can actually be used for people. and the interface is awesome. it's also keyboard oriented, soless mouse usage. i think i'll take the fraction of a second slower OSX than the fast POS windows. i really have seen a new light about windows since having my mac.

but believe me i will get vista first chance it comes out, yes i know, even if it's more half ass than windows because of service packs, etc...

anyway, to each their own thank you.

ramos

Being keyboard orented is truely what I hate about the Mac. Ever tried to take a screen shot. Its like Clover+F12+Alt+Click and drag the mouse over the part of the screen you want to take the shot of. If its the one thing I cant stand its the carpel tunnel induceing shortcuts.

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Cameron

ok, i'd like to see you implement Drag and drop installation into a windows system.

huh, you cant? yeah thats what i thought.

oh yeah,, and uninstall is as easy as throwing the app in the trash. (i learned this the hard way )

and the screenshot progam is called grab, and has a few options that were left out with print-screen.

and yes the object dock is nice, yes you can get it for windows, i know.

but expose & dashboard. it's still a step ahead of what windows will be. flip 3D is nice, but you still see one window at a time, and between big windows may be small hidden ones. not happening with expose.

and the ever changing background. I have 43 Backgrounds from FSX that rotate every minute on my desktop. still yet to see that come with windows.

and it's still taking up less resources. what i can pull on a 1 ghz 640mb Ibook, you cant even grasp unless you got a 2gz with a gig of ram.

btw... totally wrong discussion thread here

but yes, a downfall of apple is it's A) not licensing OSX, and B) lack of programs. i ully understand that and it was a basis for me to hate macs. things change...

Ramos

Giood good, hes coming back to the dark side

Cheers
Cameron