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When High End Gaming Machines Fight

Posted by ryuzaki0 on from the pc-as-a-console dept.

mikemuch writes "Games for Windows Magazine and ExtremeTech teamed up to determine which prebuilt high-end PC delivers the ultimate game performance in terms of frame-rate and ability to yield the highest game quality settings on large displays. The winner, VoodooPC's Omen, features an Intel Core 2 Duo QX6800 processor and two Nvidia GeForce 8800 GTX's in SLI configuration. It delivers over 15,000 3DMarks (as do a few of the other contestants), but 'only' costs $5,700 — in contrast with some of the other machines that go for close to eight grand."

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  1. Re:Fight?! What fight?! by Simon80 · · Score: 4, Interesting
    1. What part of the article are you referring to?
    2. When Apple releases any hardware that can compare with the gaming performance of these machines, then you can think about making snarky comments
  2. $6000 == $600 ? by AP2k · · Score: 2, Interesting

    "It delivers over 15,000 3DMarks (as do a few of the other contestants), but 'only' costs $5,700 " Which is in stark contrast to $600... You were saying?

  3. Re:Fight?! What fight?! by Sir_Sri · · Score: 2, Interesting

    That might happen if Apple stopped selling neutered video cards like the X1900XT with the current mac pros.

    Seriously, that's a huge market that for some reason apple has completely missed. Their Mac Pro line is not far off from an ultimate gaming rig, drop in a decent video card (make OSX recognize any PCI express video card properly!), a decent soundcard (which I think they have?), apply 10 minutes of that apple case engineering to make it look pretty and keep cool and voila now you have the ultimate geek toy, it runs OSX out of the box, you can install windows and linux, massive hard drive expansion for games music, movies, and all those operating systems what more could you want?

    I think for the same amount of money (give or take the cost of OSX) apple could build machines this good, and people would buy them in droves. Why would any self respecting geek by a 5700 dollar ultimate gaming rig, when they can get a 5800 dollar ultimate gaming rig, that also runs OSX (or a 2000 dollar rig or a 3000 dollar rig)? It needs to support any PCIx card though, so I can drop in a Nvidia 9800 GTX when they come out.