F#$k them, their game was $hi#ty anyways, most people who played it online were 11 year old kids anyways "this is soooo cool there is blood and gore everywhere". Hope their next tittle sucks and the lead game designer gets fired. WE shall see where the market ends up but I wouldn't count out PCs just yet.
May they burn in hell. These guys are some serious a$s holes, and if I ever had to chose between comcast and no internet. You can sure as hell bet I will live without internet.
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[edit: I see it, so I just did copy and paste]
a water-cooled, 3GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 overclocked to 4GHz, 4GB of Patriot DDR3/1800, and an X38-based Asus P5E3 Deluxe motherboard. The cards were each clocked at the stock speeds for the HD 3970X2: 825MHz core and 900MHz memory.
We ran three benchmarks: Call of Duty 4, 3DMark06 and Unreal Tournament 3 for our tests. We initially planned to test using Crysis as well, but ended up chucking it as a benchmark due to sporadic stability problems that we couldn’t explain.
What’s the quick verdict? Benchmark results scaled surprisingly well when we moved from two-GPUs (in a single 3870X2 board) to four GPUs (in a pair of 3870X2s).The caveat, of course, is that you’ll need to play your games at ultra high resolutions to really see the difference. But even at 1920x1200 – the standard resolution of most 24-inch flat panels, you can see a frame rate increase of roughly 20 percent by dropping a second 3870X2 board in your rig. When you step up to a 30-inch panel, the four GPUs in the 3870X2 come into play with roughly a 40 percent increase in frame rate.
That’s not too shabby. It also erases reservations we’ve had about quad GPUs since Nvidia tested its dual-GPU GeForce 7950GX2 cards two years ago. Then, buggy drivers and difficulties getting games to support the high resolutions pretty much destroyed Quad SLI. Lack of Vista drivers didn’t help either. Things have changed for ultra-high resolution gaming now though. With the price of 30-inch panels coming down and 3870X2 boards available for an almost affordable $450 each, we’re genuinely excited about the technology.
However, the 3870X2 won’t be the only quad-GPU game in town for long. Nvidia has its own second-generation Quad SLI in the works. Still, the performance of the 3870X2 in CrossFireX makes us feel a bit more comfortable that at least those two extra GPUs aren’t goldbricking—at least at high resolutions.
There’s still work to be done to improve stability with AMD drivers, which is why this is a preview and not a review. The company also freely admits that the scaling is best under DirectX9. DX10 performance currently to top out at three GPUs, the company says. The company says that that problem is a driver issue that it expects to fix. For now, the ball goes back to Nvidia.
A version of the 3870X2 driver enabling CrossFireX will be publicly available March 5th.
A little late to post this, but I think there are some books that were wrote using text speak (if thats what it can be called). The books take place mostly on IM, and it has a lot of the abbreviations. :( I C U L8er alig8er. roflcopter.
FEATURE 35 Amazing Things Your PC Can DoHOW TO Play Games on Your Linux Machine SOLID STATE DRIVES We Break Down the Tech and Review 7 SSDsBIO TWEAKS Get the Best Performance From Your Rig
W-A-S-D: DRM Or No Game At All? Pick Your Poison
Posted 09/30/2008 at 05:09:24am
F#$k them, their game was $hi#ty anyways, most people who played it online were 11 year old kids anyways "this is soooo cool there is blood and gore everywhere". Hope their next tittle sucks and the lead game designer gets fired. WE shall see where the market ends up but I wouldn't count out PCs just yet.
Comcast Sues the FCC over Network Neutrality
Posted 09/08/2008 at 07:37:52pm
May they burn in hell. These guys are some serious a$s holes, and if I ever had to chose between comcast and no internet. You can sure as hell bet I will live without internet.
Hands-On Preview with CrossFireX
Posted 02/29/2008 at 11:08:00am
[[copied right where you left off. Hope it helps]] [edit: I see it, so I just did copy and paste] a water-cooled, 3GHz Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 overclocked to 4GHz, 4GB of Patriot DDR3/1800, and an X38-based Asus P5E3 Deluxe motherboard. The cards were each clocked at the stock speeds for the HD 3970X2: 825MHz core and 900MHz memory. We ran three benchmarks: Call of Duty 4, 3DMark06 and Unreal Tournament 3 for our tests. We initially planned to test using Crysis as well, but ended up chucking it as a benchmark due to sporadic stability problems that we couldn’t explain. What’s the quick verdict? Benchmark results scaled surprisingly well when we moved from two-GPUs (in a single 3870X2 board) to four GPUs (in a pair of 3870X2s).The caveat, of course, is that you’ll need to play your games at ultra high resolutions to really see the difference. But even at 1920x1200 – the standard resolution of most 24-inch flat panels, you can see a frame rate increase of roughly 20 percent by dropping a second 3870X2 board in your rig. When you step up to a 30-inch panel, the four GPUs in the 3870X2 come into play with roughly a 40 percent increase in frame rate. That’s not too shabby. It also erases reservations we’ve had about quad GPUs since Nvidia tested its dual-GPU GeForce 7950GX2 cards two years ago. Then, buggy drivers and difficulties getting games to support the high resolutions pretty much destroyed Quad SLI. Lack of Vista drivers didn’t help either. Things have changed for ultra-high resolution gaming now though. With the price of 30-inch panels coming down and 3870X2 boards available for an almost affordable $450 each, we’re genuinely excited about the technology. However, the 3870X2 won’t be the only quad-GPU game in town for long. Nvidia has its own second-generation Quad SLI in the works. Still, the performance of the 3870X2 in CrossFireX makes us feel a bit more comfortable that at least those two extra GPUs aren’t goldbricking—at least at high resolutions. There’s still work to be done to improve stability with AMD drivers, which is why this is a preview and not a review. The company also freely admits that the scaling is best under DirectX9. DX10 performance currently to top out at three GPUs, the company says. The company says that that problem is a driver issue that it expects to fix. For now, the ball goes back to Nvidia. A version of the 3870X2 driver enabling CrossFireX will be publicly available March 5th.
Dell Drop Kicks Proprietary Parts
Posted 02/28/2008 at 05:45:44pm
Wow, took them a while. Just shows how lame they are. "Dudeeee you're getting a dell"
Teen Text Message Champ Wins $25K
Posted 09/19/2007 at 09:24:25pm
A little late to post this, but I think there are some books that were wrote using text speak (if thats what it can be called). The books take place mostly on IM, and it has a lot of the abbreviations. :( I C U L8er alig8er. roflcopter.