Do you have an UPS?
I always said that it is not worth to buy a PC just for gaming. You have to spend a bunch of money and you can bet that in just 6 months will be obsolete.
Well, someone wanted to see what kind of hardware do you need to run at the best (setting the graphic level and details to "I-want-to-see-the-hair-in-your-ass") one of the latest PC game on the market: Crysis.
The people at PcGamesHardware spent more than 1800$ (just for the video cardS) for a kicking-ass system: in the picture you can notice 3 (T-H-R-E-E) Nvidia SLI Cards and a huge 1200 Watt PSU.
The result: playing with Crysis at "Very High" detail, the system barely gets 38 frames per second, when normally 60 FPS is the desired level for a smooth gaming.
Did you ever think about buying a game console ??
[Here the complete report in german from PcGamesHardware and here a brief abstract in english]


A 1280 con antialias attivato e full quality il gioco è già al top e non serve un triplo SLI, quelle risoluzioni son prove per testare il nuovo SLI nvidia appena uscito a risoluzioni critiche.
1200 W è l'inquietante, concordo.
Ale
Friday 21 December 2007 at 2:05 AM
Era un po' quello che succedeva anche con l'amiga: stesso hw per anni = impegno maggiore degli sviluppatori. hw in continua evoluzione = facciamo le cose che fanno impressione e non preoccupriamoci delle performance del codice
orangeek
Friday 21 December 2007 at 9:20 AM
Ale
Friday 21 December 2007 at 3:10 PM