Well-known manufacturer of high-performance desktop, notebook and entertainment systems, Alienware Company, announced that their desktop systems equipped with four GPUs thanks to ATI CrossFireX technology are now available for ordering. The new Alienware ALX CrossFireX desktop computer utilizes two ATI Radeon HD 3870 X2 graphics cards, each housing two GPUs and a full 1GB of dedicated graphics memory – that’s 2GB of dedicated GDDR3 graphics memory.
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haha, that was clever
My new alienware power plant..
Haha, nice. I was thinking more along the lines of
"Thank you." - your bank
I never did understand that. "Oh, just drop another $1.2k for this and you're at the top of the gaming world...for 6 months."
i agree with you man, the pc is not that good in terms of new tech ... sure it has a 4 graphic cards but thaz about it (and some other overpriced components that you do not need) ... sadly, for that amount of money you can get newer hardware (better) and just as powerfull (i am not into overclocking so i do prefer factory clocked whe the big bold "overclocked to 3.33 ghz doesn't mean much to me" ... a good way of wasting 10g if ou have em
does a single 3850 x2 beat a single 8800gt? gts g92? (dx10 cards) 7950 x2 (hit me if that's not the right name for it) for dx9?
i can hand build a 2x 8800 gts g92 system with dual x16 support pcie 2.0 etc on the mobo, same processor (hand over clocked), same specs on ram (or better) for less than half the cost of that bloat.
with the blu ray and mega sized HDs (probably not a bad idea), the final cost of the hand built rig would probably go a couple hundred over half. but 5k for that? pffft.
That's what I thought, too. But not everyone can hand-build their own stuff or know where to get a deal.
I recently rediscovered some old receipts for computer stuff I bought (parents paid for) when I was a mid-teenager. Sure, I knew how to put things together myself, but the prices were ridiculous - for those components I'd never spend that much. Back then I was a novice at pricing things out.
When I hear of a system like this, I can imagine three types of people buying it: 1) Non-techie parents, potentially for non-techie kids; 2) Non-techie adults for themselves; 3) Lazy techies or techies with little free time.
http://www.neowin.net/forum/index.php?showtopic=55653
Using a PC built for under £300 from one of those sites, that can easily play games like Quake 4 at max settings without lag (won't play games like Crysis or Unreal 3, but it's an example).
i think they can do alot better than that
honestly, how many mobos support CrossFire?
do people even think about ATI and CrossFire when they go to buy a gaming machine?
dont mean to bash them, but they are really lacking these days
Last edited by X'tyfe on 07 Mar 2008 - 19:03
honestly, how many mobos support CrossFire?
I don't know if you are being sarcastic or not, but there's hell a lot more motherboards supporting Crossfire than SLI. Pretty much every mid range to high end Intel chipset based motherboard supports Crossfire. My last 4 motherboards all supported it. (P5W64-WS Pro, P5K-Deluxe, P5K3-Deluxe, P5E3-Deluxe, etc)
honestly, how many mobos support CrossFire?
LOL
HD 3870 X2 on Crossfire.
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