When the 9800GX2 cropped up, I thought, “That’s ridiculous. Who could possibly need that much power?” Yet now NVIDIA has eclipsed its dual-card beast with a single next-generation wonder, and people are already asking for two of those.
HP’s Blackbird 02 gaming computer recently got refreshed, but no one saw this coming. Configurate here.
[via UberGizmo]
This is really cool but about 6x more then I am willing to spend… I would settle for a single GeForce 280 in a simple grey box ;-)
Jon
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I just saw a comparison over at Anandtech. They got their hands on 2 GTX 280’s and 2 9800GX2’s, and the performance was almost the same running each card in SLI mode. Crysis at 52fps at 1920×1200. Not sure why anyone would spend the premium for the same performance:
http://www.anandtech.com/video/showdoc.aspx?i=3334&p=19
The funny part is that they had to use a *second* PC and attach the power cables from that to even supply enough power.
I am replacing my wedding gift registry with this bad boy