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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. Fight?! What fight?! by __aaclcg7560 · · Score: -1, Offtopic

    Personally, I prefer high-end systems to work out of the box. Kinda like a Mac. :P

    1. Re:Fight?! What fight?! by Anonymous Coward · · Score: -1, Offtopic

      "Personally, I like to build my own system, as high-end as I want. That way, I don't spend $4000 on something that could cost 300-500 bucks."

      You know I use to have this same attitude. I spent WEEKS planning out my purchase, trolling the hardware sites for deals, trying to figure out what motherboard worked better with specific video cards and audio interfaces. All that sort of stuff.

      And then I realized I was charging $100 an hour for my consulting work and short changing myself in the end.

      I picked up a Mac and never looked back. Paid for itself in a few weeks. Doing work with the music industry, I needed a stable rig first and foremost, and as such, any PC I picked up had to go through about 4 weeks of tuning. For my work in the educational field (I design computer adaptive testing 'solutions'), it didn't really matter -- but Virtual PC ended up being the better solution. Actually, I still use a VM solution anytime I'm doing this be it Windows or Mac these days.

      In either industry, the 'cheapest' solution so far has been a Mac. If you are a hobbiest, it doesn't matter. If you are a professional with ANY type of specialization, you can easily charge what I do, and it quickly makes sense to go with what works best out of the box.

      Besides, I still kick my roommates ass on a machine that he's probably dropped $2K on over the last year with my MacBook that I spent the same amount on. His videocard is SUPPOSEDLY much better, but honestly I just don't see it when playing any sort of twitchy multiplayer gaming.

  2. Re:$6000 == $600 ? by Dark_MadMax666 · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Umm PS3 cant hit 15000 3dmarks for life. Its roughly 1/8th in power of such PC (without nitpicking on the fact that there is no 3dmark for ps3)

  3. Yeah, but ... by rlp · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    Yeah, but is it powerful enough to run Vista?

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