Just purchased a new computer^_^

[Ge0m3tRiC]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883227079&nm_mc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel&cm_mmc=TEMC-RMA-Approvel-_-Content-_-text-_-N82E16883227079

Tiem 2 fap 2 Crysis on very high DX10, Skull-phuck scouts in TF2 as I punch out all their blood wif my uber frame rate, and raep zombies as I shout ZOMG in L4D, w00t!

Plus wif 8g's of RAM I can has me photoshop, maya, after fx, steam, and firephux open in one cataclysmic brawl for mem usage and I don't have to worry about this...

http://farm1.static.flickr.com/145/329883185_6b80bde503.jpg?v=0

[juggaloG421]

you mean you didnt even put it together yourself??
what kind of nerd are you?

but in response to the specs of your new beastly tower...
http://i374.photobucket.com/albums/oo189/_G_Mon3y/camecat.jpg

[g4m3rgrrl]

could have been worse...he could have gotten a clone pc like gateway or dell and had hella lotta problems with the hardware and/or customer support....
LOL ((been there done that and NEVER want to do that again))

[Ge0m3tRiC]

Well since u gais want to be smart ass' and say I'm not doing ianything wif it myself I have actualy already upgraded the power supply unit, and replaced the graphics card that came with it. When I get home from Seattle I will be replacing the mother board so I can upgrade pci-e x16 slots. I am right now debating on getting 2 4870x2 cards in crossfire or 2 gtx 280 in sli. I am well aware that the 4870x2 is the better deal, hopwever I will be doing a lot of work in the sandbox 2 editor (crysis) and this is optimized for nvidea cards. Beyond that I sould be able to run any game currently out.

[waveomatic]

In determining what video cards to test the 9800GTX+ against, I decided to use the closest analog on the market, the HD 4850, a GTX280 and, a HD 4870 X2 to show the benefits of SLI versus single card solutions and a 9600GT. The GeForce 9800GTX+ is available online for about $199, meaning it is good competition price-wise against the HD 4850. Two of them should provide good competition against a single GTX280 which retails for $439 as of this writing.

Test System




Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9770 CPU running at 3.2GHz
2GB Crucial Ballistix DDR3-2000 EPP memory running at 2000MHz
XFX nForce 790i Ultra
XFX 9800GTX running 177.79 Forceware
2 XFX 9800GTX in SLI running 177.79 Forceware
Rosewill 950W PSU
ASUS 16X DVD-ROM
Windows Vista 32-bit Business with SP1 installed


Tests


DirectX 9.0



Call of Duty 4 Modern Warfare 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF Custom FRAPS walkthrough
Enemy Territory QuakeWars Patch 1.5 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF Custom FRAPS walkthrough
Unreal Tournament 3 Patch 1.2 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF Custom FRAPS walkthrough
STALKER 1280x1024, 1920x1200 4x AA 16x AF Custom FRAPS Walkthrough
3DMark05/06 version 1.3/ 1280x1024, 1920x1200 default run
Aquamark 3 standard test
SpecViewPerf 10
PCMark05/Vantage



READ IT HERE http://www.motherboards.org/reviews/hardware/1818_1.html



The 9800GTX+ from XFX is on the market for a $199 price point, or nearly the same price as the HD 4850 card and lower than the HD 4870 or GeForce GTX260 chip. There’s a lot of overlap in the video card market as video cards that were $350 are now under $200 and video cards that are being introduced now have different competition than the manufacturers expected at launch. Performance is higher than the 9800GTX and virtually the same as the HD 4850 in most instances. This card a year ago would have been the fastest card on the market but today it is a mid-range card. That’s the pace of video card companies and the price of technology.
SLI mode on the 9800GTX+ was easy to enable and performance of two of these cards is faster than a single GeForce GTX280 card installed in some situations and nearly as fast in others. The power requirements are more but you get the performance of a faster card for a lower price. Performance of two 9800GTX+ cards in SLI in fact exceeds that of the Radeon HD 4870 X2 card from ATI meaning that two of these cards are as fast as any single card on the market today. The GeForce 9800GTX+ is a fast card, faster than the original 9800GTX. There are already 9800GTX cards that are overclocked higher than this however, and the target of this card the HD 4850 has healthy competition with this card. The wildcard is hardware acceleration for PhysX games which can make a huge difference in frame rate in supported applications.

[Ge0m3tRiC]

Unfortunantly the 9800gtx2's have a severe micro stutter issue that the new gtx280's have adressed.