My latest computer insanityFollow

Why **** around?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820609245

Didn't have enough spare kidneys laying around in useless annoying neighbors to fund two of them. Besides, this way i'll have somethign to upgrade to next time!

You could upgrade to XP...

Have you played any of the DX10 games yet?

I have no idea what any of that means. So...

Yay?

I have a 55gig hard drive. It's just over half-full and that's only because I haven't uninstalled some obsolete MMORPGs yet.

Have 1.2Tb of HDDs and about 1/2 full - mainly .iso's of DVDs, music and .avis

(No, not **** before you ask)

Directx 10, in the few games that support it so far, is totally worth it. Flight suimulator x, bioshock, company of heroes all look amazing in Directx 10 on an 8800 gtx. Havn't had a chance to play with it in SLI mode yet. It's mainly a combination of little things that add up to a huge effect. actual grass blades, Raytraced lighting effects on top of better smoke effects, more realistic water surface effects.

Once more of the MMO's start taking advantage of directx 10 fully it will be worth upgrading just for that.

Tr00 dat

LoTRO Book 11 is out in the next few weeks and having played in DX10 on the preview server it's made the already amazing look even better.

how are you liking the 8800? i am getting 2 of them soon, hoping i have a large enough PSU to deal with them in SLI.

will they run well under XP as i REFUSE to install vista right now on my production and game box. i use it for video editing and playing wow. about the ONLY 2 things it does. premier 6.5 does not work well on Vista (i know i have tested it on an other system) and wow has some known issues that can be worked around, but id rather not. not to mention i refuse to pay $800 for the ultimate vista just to have access to 100% of the network features i need in my LAN.

They'll run just fine under XP, you just won't get to see shiny shiny Drectx 10 thingies. Mine is absolutly stable, I have't been able to get it to hang for any reason so far despite throwing heavy graphics loads at it at 1900 x 1200 resolution. Its definitly more stable than the 7950 gx2 was. We have 2 of them at work on the video machine running in SLI mode, but I can't put that one through its gaming paces for obvious reasons.

Fan noise isn't too bad on the work ones. I watercooled the home one using a koolance kit. Once budget allows I'll throw another one in there. I need to upgrade the processor soon too.

*drools*

What type of job do you have to fund this? I would be maxing credit cards for this. Sigh.

I work here, and at my other main job in a state government IT office, where I work as a software compliance/ordering everythign/workstation buildout/server monkey type job.

This job funds my computer habit!

Its a good idea in theory, but there are a couple problems with it. The main one being that it appeals primarily to the enthusiast gaming market, many of which already have a SLI array in their computer so they don't have a free slot in their motherboard. The second main issue is that there are only a very few games that support it so far, and the ones that do are using it poorly. Just like not enough explosion debris isn't realistic looking, an explosion that spawns 4 billion fragments of the same debris piece isn't realistic either.

I'd really like to see them integrate this into a graphics card actually. That or an on board chip. Until that happens though, it's just going to be a niche product.

Dual 8800's draw an insane amount of power. Something along the order of 200w each just to fire. The absolute minimum power supply i'd personally attempt to boot with both of those in there would be a 650w, assuming you don't have an insane number of fansYou'd probably be better off with a 700 or 850 watt.