[BlackDove]

Why. Why did you bump it? WHY?

[Hellstryker]

Settled once and for all. lock time and perhaps classic section please.

[WMCoolmon]

I'll see your window-with-glowy-power-supply and raise you a HL2 case:








Not even the mouse was left out:



Gratuitous detail

[Hellstryker]

Oh great, here comes the next big HLP project "FS Open case mod!"

[colecampbell666]

There hasn't been any oil rig set since then, although one or two sets had oil rig models as alternates. However, there has been a gasoline related set of some sort every year or two.

I have an old submarine model with an alternative that was either an underwater base or an oil rig.

[Ashrak]

Settled once and for all. lock time and perhaps classic section please.

you myfriend have never heard of cable managment

my mobo beats yours, Asus striker 2 formul 780i chip with 3-SLI support BABY

[Hellstryker]

Bleh, cables are a PitA and thats all i have to say. as for the mobo, why the hell would anyone even need TRIPLE SLI Support with an 8800 GTS 

[TrashMan]

Pfft...who cares how it looks like, it's what's inside that's important.

I've got you beat

8800 GTX (768Mb), 4 gigs of RAM, 550w active power supply, 350 GB primary, 250 GB secondary HDD, 3+ Ghz Core Duo processor, Armor server tower (9 slots for drives)

[Ashrak]

right now i got formula 2 780i
core 2 quad Q6600
2gb noname ram
8800GTS 512 DDR3


what im gonna ed up with is

same mobo same cpu 8 GB OCZ reaper 8800GTS in SLI and 2 TB worth of raid 5 storage.

[CP5670]

8800GTS in SLI

If you like vsync and plan to run more than just a handful of the latest blockbuster games on it, get ready for headaches.

[Bob-san]

Pfft...who cares how it looks like, it's what's inside that's important.

I've got you beat

8800 GTX (768Mb), 4 gigs of RAM, 550w active power supply, 350 GB primary, 250 GB secondary HDD, 3+ Ghz Core Duo processor, Armor server tower (9 slots for drives)

I'll raise you a HD3850 up 15+% (@770/1014), 500W PSU, 320GB primary, 80GB secondary HDD, 3GHz Core CPU under a Scythe Infinity, cable management, and a 36CM (13") side fan.



Silent and $800--not much more than just your graphics card retailed for, for a year.

Oh and Hellstryker--zip ties are your friend.

[Ashrak]

ati went down the drain imo, with theyr latest cards, nothing they produce can beat a 8800 which is allready an old chip.

[Koth]

Wrong. The 3870 X2 is faster than every single Nvidia card.

[colecampbell666]

Wrong. The 3870 X2 is faster than every single Nvidia card.

QFT. We (ATi=Canadian company) finally beat technology that's a year old. Barely.

[TrashMan]

Wrong. The 3870 X2 is faster than every single Nvidia card.

[colecampbell666]

http://www.tomshardware.com/2008/01/28/ati_r680_the_rage_fury_maxx_2/

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com/forum/hardware-canucks-reviews/4236-ati-radeon-hd3870-x2-1gb-review.html

[CP5670]

Wrong. The 3870 X2 is faster than every single Nvidia card.

Too bad it doesn't work properly with vsync and triple buffering, is slower than a single 3870 in some games (since you can't really disable CF on it) and can't output a 400mhz video signal.

As far as I am concerned, this and the upcoming 9800GX2 are useless due to all the weird bugs with CF and SLI. If I'm paying $450 or more for one of these things, I expect it to do all the things that a cheaper, single GPU card can.

ati went down the drain imo, with theyr latest cards, nothing they produce can beat a 8800 which is allready an old chip.

I agree. If they had brought out something that could compete with an 8800 within a few months of its release, we would have had a new generation of cards six months ago. As it stands, Nvidia's 9800GTX, GT200 or whatever they're calling it is slated for Q2 this year, so the standard one year gap between generations would have increased to two years. However, the games haven't stopped getting more demanding, so the high end video cards all suck these days.

[Ashrak]

ehm X2 is a dualcore GPU so it can only compete with a 8800 GX2 or an SLI in which its gonna loose....


plus, if you look at the preformance difference between an 8800 ultra SINGLE core and the x2, its marginal, and some games the single core BEATS the x2, so im sorry mr ati fanboy but you wated your money on the card, and NO im not an nvidia or ati fanboy, my new rig has 8800GTS but old one which i still use has x1950pro AGP which has served me very wellsofar (best AGP card)

[Hellstryker]

Pfft...who cares how it looks like, it's what's inside that's important.

I've got you beat

8800 GTX (768Mb), 4 gigs of RAM, 550w active power supply, 350 GB primary, 250 GB secondary HDD, 3+ Ghz Core Duo processor, Armor server tower (9 slots for drives)

Actually the GTS beats the GTX believe it or not, check the graphs on toms hardware. As for the 4 gigs of RAM and the processor, yes im afraid you have pwned me

[Bob-san]

ehm X2 is a dualcore GPU so it can only compete with a 8800 GX2 or an SLI in which its gonna loose....


plus, if you look at the preformance difference between an 8800 ultra SINGLE core and the x2, its marginal, and some games the single core BEATS the x2, so im sorry mr ati fanboy but you wated your money on the card, and NO im not an nvidia or ati fanboy, my new rig has 8800GTS but old one which i still use has x1950pro AGP which has served me very wellsofar (best AGP card)

An HD3870X2 is actually a dual-chip model--it has two R670XT chips on the same PCB, connected by an internal PCI Express bridge. Anyways--it's a much more elegant solution than the GeForce 7900GX2, 7950GX2, and the future 9800GX2. The HD3870X2 is fast--to say the least. Anyways--which 8800GTS? G80 (96SP), G80 "SSC" (112SP), or G92 (128SP)?