Dell Coming Out With Quad GPU Gaming PC

The new concept XPS notebook is cooler I think. I think I'd buy one just for LAn parties.

http://www.dell.com/html/us/products/ces/index.htm

As a computer tech, I must say it will be a lot and...slow and shitty. Thx for being like HPQ, Acer, etc...

At least Gateway is using standard parts now.

hes got a point, the power to pull off that native rez is a nightmare. i had to get dual 7800 gtx's just to deal w/ my 2005 fpw

I was at the luncheon thing with the Gamespot people among others, and they were showing the quad-GPU machine running on a 30-inch flat panel running at 2800x1600 (ish, don't remember the exact res, and don't want to fish out my notes).

At that resolution, on a traditional SLI rig, the bottleneck shifts back to the GPUs. The other huge benefit that you get is the ability to crank AA, aniso, and (they said) soft shadows up to the maximum limit and still run at 60 fps.

The other thing is that the new XPS runs the new 65 nm Presler CPU, which is dual-core. And, Dell overclocked it from stock to 4.246GHz or thereabouts, which should make it competitive with AMD's next-gen offerings.

I'm going to have to do some real-world testing before I'm convinced that it's worth what this machine is obviously going to cost; however, it could be pretty amazing, especially when paired with the right display. Those 30-inch displays are breathtaking.

If you're running at 1024x768, you should just stick with a Radeon 9700. There's no reason for you to spend money on new hardware.

///Will

You just know someone out there will buy this system and continue to play Quake3 on it with picmip 8, subdivisions 999, and vertex lighting ...

So Paris Hilton can play solitare?

diminishing returns is a bitch eh?

I'm about as interested in this PC as I am about the next BitBoys GPU.

TimeShift runs on it, you can see it in action at CES right now.

Ruined with the pentium =/

And then they go and neuter it with a Pentium 4 instead of an Athlon 64 X2.

More pics. Setup looks crazy mad.

http://www.pcper.com/article.php?aid=195

And then they'll throw so much bloat onto the thing that you can't even install your games without something crashing.

I'd known Dell had gotten bad about that sort of thing, but the recent [H] article really was surprising.

This goes under the "whoop dee fucking doo" category.

This will be just enough to run current games at native resolution on the 3007FPW.

These days I don't think the improvement you'll get in any current (or near future) games with SLI, especially quad SLI (jesus!) is worth the compatibility issues that still seem to dog the technology.

By the time a game comes out that will really benefit from that much power it will be available much cheaper and in a single card that produces less noise and heat and uses fewer slots and less power. And crashes in fewer games.