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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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 When two Geforce 6600 GTs in SLI mode just aren't enough....
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Fri May 27, 2005 3:26 pm |
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Rinox
Minor Diety
Joined: Mon Mar 31, 2003 7:23 am Posts: 14892 Location: behind a good glass of Duvel
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Holy crap. 
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Fri May 27, 2005 4:05 pm |
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Franny
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Joined: Tue Jun 10, 2003 11:08 am Posts: 940 Location: over there
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when would you ever need 4??
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Sat May 28, 2005 7:16 am |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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lol, why would you ever need 2?
Maybe play Elder Scrolls: Oblivion at 1600x1200 with full antialiasing and everything else jacked up....
while playing B&W2 in the background....
and rendering a complex ray-traced scene.
:p
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Sat May 28, 2005 1:22 pm |
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Arathorn
Minor Diety
Joined: Tue Apr 01, 2003 10:23 am Posts: 3956 Location: Amsterdam
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For in game raytracing? 
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Sat May 28, 2005 1:31 pm |
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Peltz
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Joined: Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:14 pm Posts: 6420 Location: Estonia
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Crazy.
That system defenatly needs watercooling, think of the noise it'll make 
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Sun May 29, 2005 2:59 am |
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derf
Minor Diety
Joined: Fri Apr 11, 2003 2:17 pm Posts: 7737 Location: Centre of the sun
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Sun May 29, 2005 5:28 am |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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yea, but the expense isn't worth it. By the time we need that kind of power, improved manufacturing capabilities will put the same power in a tenth of the space (or a hundreth, or whatever).
I want another quantum leap in computer performance. I'm thinking 64bit may do just that. *crosses fingers
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Sun May 29, 2005 10:33 pm |
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Peltz
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Joined: Sat Apr 12, 2003 1:14 pm Posts: 6420 Location: Estonia
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1) SLI
2) Dual Core CPU
3) 64bit mumbojumbo
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Mon May 30, 2005 3:56 am |
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Satis
Felix Rex
Joined: Fri Mar 28, 2003 6:01 pm Posts: 16701 Location: On a slope
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yea, I doubt SLI will do it...that 'only' doubles performance (roughly). Dual-core looks like a good starting point....properly done, it more than doubles performance since you don't have to jump onto the front side bus to talk between the two+ cores. I'm thinking multi-core + 64bit + improved memory + improved memory buses/controllers will kick us to the next level of processing capabilities.
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Mon May 30, 2005 2:22 pm |
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