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NVIDIA and Dell Display Quad-SLI System
Ryan @ CES writes "Today at the Consumer Electronics Show, Dell and NVIDIA announced a new XPS system coming later this year that will sport not one, not two, but FOUR GeForce 7800 GTX 512 GPUs running in a quad-SLI configuration. There are two physical graphics cards in the system still, but each has two seperate PCBs with a GPU and 512 MB of memory on each. PC Perspective has some information including pictures of the cards and Dell system as well as specs and details on how NVIDIA handles the new SLI data configurations. No word yet on power consumption and heat levels, of course."
I wonder how much Dell paid Nvidia for this one. I mean, there must be plenty of manufacturers they could have picked, especially ones much more known for being gaming-oriented companies (Alienware, or Falcon Northwest).
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You could build yourself a pretty nifty transistor radio with that many!
Calling this a "Quad-SLI" system is as misleading as calling a dual-CPU Power Mac a "G5 Quad."
Is anyone else reminded of the Voodoo 5 with the size of this thing?
Lock in!
No one can defeat the quad-laser!
It is over now!
The bullet is enormous, there is no escaping!
Jumping...is useless!
had it right all along. Here i was, making fun of the 800 and 1000W PSUs we've started to see over the last 6 months, and now I get to eat crow.
But at least I know get to make fun of the people spending 6000-8000 dollars (general swag the article took based on the current Dell SLI setups) on a gaming computer.
I'd be scared to turn that besat of a box on, unless I knew for sure that my house wiring could take it...I wonder how many watts the PSU is rated for (and who built the PSU..muhaha)
Also, who would be able to use this other than the extreme gaming folks?
This box will cost a pretty penny, but would a person even be able see an improvement over the current popular 939 pin Opteron + fatass video card combo?
I am totally creeped out by the Nvidia eye logo thing. I would have to get my compy two, just so it had depth perception.
...the purchase of 3DFX appears to have had some serious negative consequences on NVIDIA.
(In other words: why?)
*Lights dim*
*PSU explodes*
*case begins melting*
"Wow! 3FPS faster!"
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"One of the four pointers saying 'come and see', and I saw, and beheld a white
This machine certainly seems like overkill. What would be nice would be if they would make a system like this that uses budget cards. Given that graphics rendering is a task that is easly split between multiple processors (IIRC that's the case anyway), I would think that they could offer something like this with cheaper cards and get better performance than going up to the next generation of cards.
Since a bleeding edge card tends to run around $500, and a card a couple of generations old tends to run about $100, you could get four older generation cards for less than a bleeding edge card, and equivilent if not better performance.
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.. are they going to put all this shit on one board, like 3DFX used to with their Voodoo cards? Or does it not work like that? Can someone explain?
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"One of the four pointers saying 'come and see', and I saw, and beheld a white
I am usually more impressed with seeing a little of something new, than I am with seeing a lot of something old.
This falls into the latter camp. Yawn.
From the looks of that picture, the motherboard and case only support four total expansion slots. What about sound cards and other PCI peripherals? Are extreme gamers now going to be forced to live with built-in sound? If I were going to pay $6,000-$8,000 or even more for an absolute top-of-the-line system I think I might want something more than just raw graphics power.
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I got one of the first run today.
On the front of the case it has a little sticker that reads, "Windows Vista Ready."
Being that two current-gen 7800 512MB's cost around $1,400 alone, this setup is going to be at least $2,200. Hopefully current-gen mobos will support it. Better open that second savings account...
http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/195/shipcase_2 .jpg
That isn't the paint job. It's a translucent case!
It may just be powerful enough to draw the desktop in Windows Vista ;-)
Tomshardware tested this kind of setup few weeks ago. Link to story and some benchmarks. http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/14/sneak_previ ew_of_the_nvidia_quad_gpu_setup/
The case is actually made of a clear material.
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when it comes to a gaming system, why is it that usually you end up spending so much less building it yourself with much higher quality parts. ive worked on and played on enough assembly line 'customised' pc's to say that every major manufacturer skimps hard on very important parts, especially motherboards. i wont use anything other than abit and asus. been that way many years. even if you subtract all the useless junk that comes preloaded with those systems, you end up alot of times with very specific driver problems, and sometimes you just plain cannot use the gpu manufacturers 'pack' drivers (even moreso true with laptops). anyway... im sure some rich kid won't mind the vendors quality/quantity performance difference when he's playing it on his 4 projectors.
I used to use accelerators like the old Voodoo Monster. They went away quickly because the evolution of GPUs is fast. Isn't SLI going to always be too late to market the same way? This has already happened with the SLI once. They skipped to the 7800 series right away. AGP is out. PCIe has become x16. I'm not going SLI because I'm happy with my DDR3 6800GT until Asus releases next NVIDIA chipset that maximizes the bandwidth of my board. Might be tomorrow. Shit. I'll need MaxUltraUberPCIe just to handle the one card. How big is the market for SLI anyway?
Bleeding edge gamer: "Hey, guys? I'm about to start Doom 3! Activate the Quad SLI!"
Gamer's best bud: "Commence primary ignition!"
Dude's buddy flips switches to crank up liquid nitrogen pump and nuclear power-plant tie-in.
Sound of neighboring houses' power being drained: Beeooooooooooo...!
Other buddy looks away from the see-thru case mod, and covers his eyes...
Yeah. Something like that.
I'm inclined to crack jokes, but I've been out of the game for a long time so I have questions. Better do both.
:-)
- I couldn't really tell, but in the images it only looks like the mobo has one cpu. Just one? I imagine the kind of frea^H^H^H^H consumer who would go for 4way SLI would demand nothing less than 2 dual-core CPU's.
- If it does only have 1 cpu, or even 1 dual core cpu, wont the games be CPU limited before you even scratch the surface of this qual-sli madness?
- They've drawn flames on this thing. I imagine this is redundant given the heat it will produce, and ultimately confusing to the jerk^H^H^H^H consumer when it actually does burst into flames.
When I can buy this thing and probably emulate one, while playing Quake 4 and Half Life 2 in the background. hee hee hee
has been triggered by this setup.
There's no way even a dual cpu setup could produce enough computing power to actually push a quad SLI GFX 7800 to its maximum output. There'll be bottlenecks with CPU speed, memory speed, and quite often, the performance of the hard drive itself. I bet even the operating system will present another bottleneck.
I'd love to see how this performs in benchmarks, and how much advantage it has over regular SLI (2) cards.
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Since this is Dell, the Quad-SLI config is obviously going to be paired up with a Pentium 4. What a fucking waste. The highest-end Pentium 4s get trounced by middle-low-end Athlon 64s when it comes to gaming, and here they are putting the mediocre processor in charge of four high-powered video cards.
Laaaame.
What the hell kind of person has 6-8k to spend on a gaming computer and time to play it?
This was done by Gigabyte some time ago.t e_motherboard/
Quad SLI board, voila: http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/10/04/one_gigaby
However, it did not perform better in various benchmarks. Mayby that's what will change now?
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They also demoed their new 30" LCD, which supports resolutions up to 2560x1600. Given that a single one of these cards is only just playable at max settings in some of today's games at 1280x960, I don't see this as being too much overkill. Albeit insanely expensive, but to each his own.
Dell has really been pushing their XPS gaming machine brand lately. Could this just be a marketing gimmick?
1. Build the most ultimate uber neeto cool computer that all of use geeks will talk about.
2. People see XPS as the most advanced gaming machines.
3. Everyone buys the normal priced systems instead of the one with 3489 video cards.
4. PROFIT!
There have often been times where I have thought "I really need a computer with 4 GPU's", but the added benefit is I won't need central heating in winter!
We need a new furnace for the house, but this beast will easily keep my house ( located in the nether regions of Canada ) warm all winter. I am only disappointed that this rig will cost about the same as a new furnace.
Currently, a 7800GTX-512 made by BFG requires a minimum 400-watt power supply, with a 12v rail rating of 26 amps, to run stable.
One of these cards tends to run from 40-50 degrees Celsius at idle, and 60-75 under load.
What these people suggest to do...is put four of the damn things in one place? So, what are we talking about here? Triple power supplies? Ten 8,000rpm, 200mm fans? Because I really don't see any other way around it.
After extensive testing we have found these PC's aren't able to run numerous popular games. The games that this machine runs, does so at a much lower frame rate then expected.
Unless Dell changes their software policy and stops shipping new systems with so much crap @ startup it won't matter how good the hardware is. To get decent performance from one of Dell's recent gaming machines one has to spend over an hour uninstalling crap and disabling random services @ startup.
The following is a hardocp review of the Dell Dimensions XPS 400. Covers the buying process, Dell's support, along with the hardware and software it ships with. The system's hardware potential was great, too bad you had to make an extensive software cleanup make this perform respectibly.
http://www.hardocp.com/article.html?art=OTI0
Hmmm... Pie...
To time how long it takes to get this kind of power in a single $75 valu-edition graphics card. My bet is 1Q2008.
I mean, really, how does your current video card stack up to a dual-card solution, circa 1996?
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Going ridiculously overboard on CPU power is for creating cut-scenes, maps, models, textures, and other non-program assets. Program code would still be profiled on systems similar to the production system.
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Who is going to spend so much money on a system with such an expensive graphics card setup but with an Intel processor? AMD's processors are superior to Intels when it comes to gamming (and also just about every other area except for video/audio encoding).
Bragging rights?
...and in non-specialist situations the speed's going to be a godsend when the next wave of resource hogging eye candy (games) comes along. I want to keep my next rig for 3-4 years.
I want something that'll give me at least 3 screens on MS flight sim 2004 (and FSX when it's released).
This setup would allow me to turn everything up and have it running on 4 screens! If the price comes down by the end of the year I'll be considering this sort of thing (realistically I'll probably end up with the mid range cards of the day rather than top of the line).
I could give a @#$k about bragging rights.
And for those of you who think 3 screens are a gimmick, try landing a 747 with a 3 or 4 screen setup before you say so. Makes the experience much more fun.
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Saw this funny thing today at TechReport, a PCIe card where you can mount two mobile graphics modules/cards (MXM) for SLI in desktop systems. Weird prototype thingy. Not sure what market this is targeting...
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That the Intel processor will be the limitation of that system :)
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
Tom's hardware's preview of dual 7800GT cards recorded 377 Watts power consumption. The cards each had their own external power brick! Dell will almost certainly have integrated power. Finally, an application for those 1000W PSUs..
Honestly, when are developers going to get back to innovation instead of throwing more raw power at everything. It always seems like the answer is throw more at it. They should be looking into more power efficent performance chips that will actually run on a 4-500 watt power supply instead of just throwing more processors and ram on an even bigger PCB. It is getting ridiculous, although the thought of the machine's power makes me wet. Alright then, end rant.
Sigh, it looks like the majors are finally catching up with my Onyx2. I remember back in the day seeing Indigo2 systems with Extreme (funny how SGI was even ahead of the curve on over using the word 'extreme' and the letter 'x') graphics which has 8 GEs on two multi-chip modules. Well though they're slow today they're still built like tanks, fun to use, and pretty as hell.
I say hell yeah to multiple GPUs! Finally. I hope they'll make Quadros for us 'professional users' which won't have Xs in the model name and will be on plain green PCB with regular heatsinks (remember the ones without the LEDs and holograms?).
You mean you didn't read the story first?
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Yeah it will be enough to draw the desktop but forget about seeing Clippy move. He's gonna be one laggy mofo!
This reminds me of Asus's Quad 7800GT setup tested on Tom's Hardware a while ago, because it's such early tech, on most tests it was beaten by a two-GPU 7800GTX SLI setup and not everything ran properly, either. I'll way to see how this one turns out, but so far, I'm sceptical.
It's just... unnatural. Four GPU cores? 2 gigs of RAM? 96 pixel pipes? It was never meant to be! ...I MUST HAVE TWO! GIVE THEM TO ME!!!
I hope I can order one from Dell directly. I don't want to be forced to buy their proprietary crap.
am I the only one who has thought that? I mean really, who is going to buy 4 of those video cards? Are we supposed to believe a very smart company like nvidia would waste their time with a venture like this? If they expect us to believe that, then i'll believe that nvidia has reached their graphics card ceiling, becuase theres no way they would bother with quad sli, which about .025% of the population could afford / want. I only have a very high end AGP card and it runs every game out there quite nicely - only FEAR gives it any trouble.
I'd just like to point out that the 5.2 Terraflops of computing power they quote would place it at #70 on the top500 Supercomputer list! While I realize that its by now means a general processor, its still quite amazing that they've reached that kind of computing density, albeit in a well defined and inherantly paralizable problem domain.
It edges out Russia's Joint Supercomputer Center, which uses an MVS-15000BM, eServer BladeCenter JS20 containing 924 IBM PowerPC970 processors at 2.2 GHz for the #70 spot.
Who doesn't spend an hour configuring a brand new machine? XP needs serious tweaks on install by default anyway. That is unless you want to be owned in 5 minutes.
Annoying, but not the end of the world.
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The same would go for graphics performance. In theory this should allow a game company to design for the next gen of graphics processors today from a performance perspective, though not from a feature perspective.
Now you can order a Dell at work and actually be proud of it. This may be a tiny bit easier to sneak past accounting because it has the Dell logo on it. However when they see the price tag that might change. Don't forget to add one of those new Dell 30" monitors.
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Sorry, has to be said...
No one needs quad sli, and of course - 640k ought to be enough for anybody.
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For example, first generation has 4 pixel processing units, next gen has 8, then 16 etc.
Graphics cards are already extremely parallel, with multiple pixel processing and vertex processing units, just stringing together two cheap cards would unlikely work as well as several chips designed to work in concert.
its powered by INTEL!
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Golf isn't a sport and neither is PC gaming. It isn't extreme, it's childish. Its for kids. If one was going to use this system for something productive I could see it (video editing, elect) but not small minded RPG and endless FPS. Gameover...get a life!
Until nVidia figures out whatever patent fuckup they got themselves into with SGI and resolves it so we can have open source accelerated drivers, the product in this article is just another expensive, shiny piece of unusable shit.
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It doesn't matter how much you pay for your system. It will be outdated in two years. You will need a system with a least 16gigs of memory, countless terabytes of hard disk space, and 4 cores within two to three years. Windows Vista and OSX 10.5 are going to be resource hogs. You will be able to run them on much less hardware but why would you want too?
I think you need at least two cores @64bit with 4096MB of memory and at least a TB of disk space. A good video card with at least 512mb of memory and a next generation dvd burner. In two years this system will cost less then $1000.
I only have a very high end AGP card and it runs every game out there quite nicely - only FEAR gives it any trouble.
You know...it isn't actually all that important to have fancy hardware to make a good, fun, replayable game. Oh, it's easier to sell games with fancy graphics -- you can slap screenshots all over the box. Ultimately, though, there are an awful lot of more-technically-advanced games that have falled by the wayside, and I've played a lot more angband and tetris than any of them, and kept playing over the years.
I'm not denying that you can make more accurate renditions of real-world environments...but does that really make for better games?
Nintendo started to deviate from this a while ago -- most of Nintendo's 3d games are graphically pretty primitive compared to the competition. However, you can't deny that they make some very entertaining software.
It's always nice to have more tools...but ultimately, these days, a little more 3d hardware doesn't really buy you much more game.
My favorite PSP game is Lumines, which is possibly the most graphically primitive game on the PSP. It uses...well...alpha blending, a handful of textures, and that's it that I can think of off the top of my head. It doesn't even do any perspective rendering.
I can already empathize with characters in 3d games -- the limiting factor isn't the polygon count or the texture resolution, but in how good the modelling and animation is -- not a hardware-dependent issue.
Any program relying on (nontrivial) preemptive multithreading will be buggy.
I have an SLI system I bought almost a year ago now. Dual 6800GTs and a substantially overclocked Athlon 64. The box is definitely badass, but frankly, what nvidia needs to do is get more game developers making their games work with SLI. Recently City of Villains came out. I play at 1600x1200, and a single 6800GT is not cutting it with all the bells and whistles. (They added antialiasing, specular bloom, and depth of field effects, plus the poly counts are supposedly higher than in CoH with larger textures)
But CoV cannot gain from SLI. At all. Yeah, I once had a 3dmark score that was like 9% less than the very top of the chart. Doom3 was awesome. HL2 was awesome. But nVidia needs to push people who are slapping logos like "the way it's meant to be played" on their games to support the high end systems.
The other serious problem here is CPU power. Most games aren't going to be able to take advantage of many processors, and it's hard to imagine a game that won't be CPU-bound long before it is GPU-bound by a 4x7800 GTX setup. It's already possible to be completely CPU bound with 2x7800 GTXs, let alone with 4. It seems probably that you'll have massive GPU power that will never get used. Plus, what game is designed with a system 3-4x as powerful as a "normal" top-of-the-line system? A game in development now coming out "soon" (I'm thinking of NWN2 here, due in about 5-6 months, for example), is likely going to support something around a geforce 5900 through the 7800gtx, with some nod to SLI from "big" games. (Maybe even another generation older; probably whichever geforce model first properly implemented shader 2.0 is the "low end")
Anyhow, this sounds like a nice marketing gimmick, but putting this in your house is probably about as practical as commuting in a McLaren F1.
If this is being used with 32-bit Windows XP for gaming, does that mean the machines virtual address space is more than maxed out with 2GB of main RAM + 2GB of VRAM + other hardware memory overhead on top of that? How much actual addressable physical RAM is left for the OS and applications?
I don't know if anyone has noticed this, but if you look at this picture http://www.pcper.com/images/reviews/195/specs_2.jp g the video card is longer than the motherboard, man that gave me a laugh
i can't see dell shipping machines overlocked from the factory like this one. seems more like CES candy, like the 105 plasmas.
To pullit all apart in a massive pile o' bits. Only to re-assemble it in the worst giant robot ever...
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What in the hell are you talking about, 30 miniuts tweaking and uninstalling software? It's easy 1. Insert fav GNU/Linux distro. 2. Hit reset 3. Enjoy
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Meh.. I won't be happy until I have one GPU per pixel.
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It is the recommended configuration for acceptable graphics performance on Windows Vista.
They are the worst arses when it comes to Motherboards. They mess up the HW, add useless shit and makes sure that even standard components wont work without their drivers /G
"Oh, thats to avoid it showing up in Windows as a device" - fuckups!
Here's the link: http://www.tomshardware.com/2005/12/14/sneak_previ ew_of_the_nvidia_quad_gpu_setup/.
What's most scary? Each of the cards has its own powerbrick.
:wq
This is just slightly off the Vista minimum hardware requirements! Keep trying guys - you're almost there!
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I have an Athlon 3700+ and a 7800GT and I am completely CPU bound on most games (most notably CoD2 and FS2004). What makes them think this is even practical? Dual-core CPUs don't run a single process any faster, so unless gaming software starts being multi-processed (NOT multi-threaded), a dual-core doesn't help either.
So, what's the point? If the data can't get to the cards fast enough for them to process it, it's a complete and utter waste of money.
I completetly disagree with your sentiment. PC Gaming is an intellectual pursuit. The things we do in our spare time are just as important as those we do for work. It is in our fantasies that we develop our greatest ideas. Games, books, movies... they all serve to ignite the spark of creativity. They inspire us to create today things we could only dream of yesterday.
Although there is no direct line between game -> societal advancement, the transition is obvious for anyone who is ever inspired to do great things.
RPGs, FPSs, RTSs, they're not simply wastes of time, they're important mental exercises that allow us to expand our minds in fun ways.
that this card will be the minimum spec for running Microsoft Flight Simulator X? which by the way has just been announced at CES 2006 as well...
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Yeah great post. Lets spend $8000 on a gaming machine, and then install Linux on it. Well worth it to play Tux Racer on!
Idiot.
Pardon me
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somebody pass the pipe man
four vid outs, and you want one?
tell em you gotta be able to work effectively and order at least 3
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Will Duke Nukem Forever run smooth with this thing?
Sorry, someone had to say that.
The only down side of this is that it will require you to build a small power station in your back garden to cope with the load. The amount of power this beast we require will make baby Jesus cry!
I wonder if you can throttle it back so that it is only using one GPU when it's only rendering normal 2D desktops?
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With cost of home heating going up, we definitely can use one of these babies as heat source. It might pay off faster than getting a new furnace!
"But Mom, I'm not playing games all the time. I'm trying to heat the house here!"
I know what you mean. I bought my wife a Dell laptop for Christmas. I fire it up, get virus check installed, etc. I finally connect it to the Internet and -boom-, everytime I click on something it takes literally over a minute to register on the screen. I finally had to wipe the hard drive clean and reinstall because I had no way of uninstalling Dell's crap. Now the clean system works beautifully. Forget 1 hour of configuration, I probably wasted 10 hours trying to get a clean, stable system running.
ummm, i have heard this before and have the same answer that many others have had for a long time...first thing you do with any pre-built system from any company is format. the only software i have kept from a company that was pre-installed was a calculator. this is certainly not the crowd i would expect to keep pre-installed software. i read that review and to me it sounds great cause i never would have even run into the pre-installed crap, i haven't booted up pre-installed software in ages and i have been installing Dell and Compaq pc's for companies for years. fresh install for me, factory install is for my tech illiterate mother.
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seriously. now if i can just get my hands on some plutonium i can fire this baby up and produce the 1.21 jigawatts necessary to go back and forth through time...
OK, if I understand this properly, if each of the 2 cards has 2 GPUs with 512MB each isn't that 2Gig of graphics memory? That's enough for a small workgroup server!
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I, for one, welcome our new SLI overlords!
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A machine to run vista decently!
Ok. The future of computing is: 128 video card cores on your home computer, all displaying on one humongous monitor, and running the original Halo for pc.
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This is all great, but when is nVidia or ATI going to put out a three-head or four-head card? Some of us have more screens than we should be allowed. =)
At work, it's no problem because I can just use multiple cards for the 2D stuff. But I'm not sure how well that will work with 3D applications which I want to span multiple screens. Stretching a game across an odd number of a horizontal row of monitors works a lot better than across an even number, since the center of an even number of monitors will be on a gap between them.
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NASA decided to adopt a couple of these systems for realtime hidef simulations of supersonic airflow. They quickly found that the systems could pull enough air to run the same simulations physically in their windtunnel. As a result they were overjoyed that they could cut energy costs with such a combination. Now work is being done to find other such uses.
If you have $1 Billion what can you do with $4 Billion than you can't do with the $1B.
Thing is, you have to do all that same stuff AFTER ripping out the things that Dell put on there.
:(.
Of course, Dell isn't the only guilty one. Last commercial PC I bought was an HP (laptop, so I couldn't build my own), and it took forever to get everything cleaned off of it. To make matters worse the PCMCIA controller has never had Linux support so I can't run Linux and still use my wireless card
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Do what you will Dell, there is no way I will ever buy one of your computers even if you offer a quad SLI system.
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And it probably still can't run F.E.A.R. at full speed with all the options maxed out.
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My Sony was the worst, not only do they install all this crap too, but they took up 25% of the disk for a "recovery" partition.
It lasted about 3 days before I nuked it. Sheesh.
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What a piece of shit.
jk.
Screw the games moron I use maya.
Anyway ever heard of cadaga, all of the UTs, Doom/Quake (I II III MCXVL) and a whole crap-load of others?
Ya fricken dingle.
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