X-bit labs

Started by: Circuit city blows, Don\'t work there, Or even shop there. | Date 03/13/08

Comments: 7 | Last Comment:  03/16/08

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1. Not worth it. Drivers aren't good enough yet. Games won't use 8 cores correctly for years. And I should think it'll be bottle necked by only 4 gigs of ram.

By the time amazing games are out that can fully utilize a computer like this there will be computers out that will be twice as powerful or even three times.

2. I still like expensive CPU because of expensive hardware, not because of jewellery.

3. So... what is this supposed to be?! A gaming PC? In that case, 8 cores are an overkill, as well as slower/more expensive and more power hungry ECC memory. A professional workstation? Doesn't look like one, judging by the graphics subsystem. Speaking of which, all tests show that crossfire performance on Skulltrail is lower than on regular crossfire boards, so, in the end, you could build a faster gaming system for $2000. And even on Skulltrail, you could build a system like this for $6000, or much less if you use two quad-core Xeons E5310 for dual processor systems ($250 each), or E5462s ($850 each) rather than QX7775 ($1300 each).

Actually, QX775s cost $1500+ a piece.

And they're called QX9775s, darn it.

4. This "Gaming Desktop" proves the power of marketing hype to totaly drive persons out of reality. One must be completely mad to buy thing like this, yet there will be people who buy this. Really amazing, deserves psychological study.

5. Only for those with far more money than sense

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