QUAD Sli

[Jonbo298]

Read the article and make sure your pants are clean...for now

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=195

[GameMaster]

I shat my pants and I must have that Dell!

[Happydude]

even though i hate NVIDIA....always had problems with it...that thing sounds amazing...although quite useless.

[Swan]

FIRE!



CASE!




DUDE!






DELL!

[KillerGremlin]

It's beautiful, isn't it. I heard about the quad-SLI a while ago.

My only gripe about SLI, being an average consumer, I can't afford it. And I'm not sure, but can dual 6600s can top a single 6800, and dual 6800s can top a 7800, ect? And the price on the cards plummets really fast. Then again, this is four, not two.

Still, that would be kickin' bragging rights.

"Hey, dude, I'm running F.E.A.R. everything maxed out at 110 frames per second."

Mwahahaha. Better get a damn good processor and a mobo to support it. With quad SLI you might drop some hundreds or more on a processor.

[Null]

2 6600gt's in SLI will out perform a 6800gt... not heavily, but it will.


i read about this setup bout a month ago, and even with this, i still would never buy a dell for a gaming pc. not just because there loaded with all the crapware dell puts on, but because they're just highly overpriced. (the gaming or 'high end' ones are overpriced.. thier budget ones arent a bad deal, they just wont be good for gaming anyway)

[MuGen]

My new PC i've been raving about is a dell and I got it for a lil over a grand. You can get a bare PC like I did you just have to build it with dell. my dell has 3.0GHz, came with 2GB(now 4GB RAM), 160GB HDD.....and it only came with Windows XP Media Center..... not much else..because I didn't order the software..

So it's not Dell whose loading up the crapware on the system, it's the person who buys the setup bundled with the crapware. My dell is cheap compared to avg alienware and the XPS models..... yet my specs are top notch.

[Null]

no crapware as in when you get a system built by dell that they've installed XP on, they load up thier software onto it, 'crapware' in many cases some of it is built into the OS disc that they give you. so you get like dell links in the start menu and stuff.
they slow the comptuer down. in every case that i've worked on someones dell computer, it runs a LOT better when you format the drive and reinstall windows. one friend got one and right away i went over and reinstalled everything for him and on aquamark got well over a couple thousand points higher then it did when he first got it.

as for price.. almost anything is cheap compared to alienware computers. i've taken thier XPS systems on thier site, then went and found all the parts to make the same computer (or in some cases slightly better) and end up with a machine thats more powerful from anywhere to $1000 - $2000 cheaper.

[Jonbo298]

Thats why we need more educated people to build computers. You save ALOT of money and still get great performance.

Hell...my computer im still using was built back in December of 2003 and it only cost me maybe a grand or slightly over it and it will play new games still..though I have to bump down the detail a little because im on the short end of RAM for another week or so >< But my investment was well worth time money spent on it, IMO.

Now to wait for Tax season to roll around so I can hopefully rebuild the aging thing

[KillerGremlin]

Hopefully it sports a PCI-E slot, because AGP is out the window. Unless you plan to buy a new mobo, but that's not rebuilding, that's starting over.

[Jonbo298]

SLI only works on PCI-E. If you wanted ANYTHING similar on AGP, you'd have to somehow manage to cram 4 video cards on one PCB board and not be too overly large in the case

[KillerGremlin]

It would be in good comical fashion. Although you might bend something.