Need a £2500 Spec

FrankJH · 1 May 2006 at 20:53

aphex said:
A competitor is offering Quad Sli for £999+Vat and includes an Asus mobo, Akasa Eclipse case and a Tagen 900W Psu, you still got ~£1300 left to spend for the rest of the setup!

While I believe you, I cant understand how they can bundle £200 of stuff for free in that price ( as the four cards must be worth more than the £999 -ohhhh unless its a 7600 quad sli or something? Was provisionally thinking 7900GT or better)

Bennah · 1 May 2006 at 20:53

aphex said:
A competitor is offering Quad Sli for £999+Vat and includes an Asus mobo, Akasa Eclipse case and a Tagen 900W Psu, you still got ~£1300 left to spend for the rest of the setup!

Dont go down Quad SLI. It needs to prove its self really. The only thing I would take from that rig is the PSU

R4z0r, thats just one test really. I dunno about 2 7900GT's in SLI instead of a single 7900 GTX. Maybe he could get a XFX 7900 GTX XXX EE then. Bring the price up a little though.

aphex · 1 May 2006 at 22:17

FrankJH said:
While I believe you, I cant understand how they can bundle £200 of stuff for free in that price ( as the four cards must be worth more than the £999 -ohhhh unless its a 7600 quad sli or something? Was provisionally thinking 7900GT or better)

Comes with 2 dual 1gb 7900GTX cards...

Bennah said:
Dont go down Quad SLI. It needs to prove its self really. The only thing I would take from that rig is the PSU

Edit: actually after seeing the reviews its not that impressive

FrankJH · 2 May 2006 at 08:09

aphex said:
Comes with 2 dual 1gb 7900GTX cards...

So they are selling a QUAD SLI CAPABLE sub system , rather than an actual 4 card rig?

Or are they the cards with two cores / card ( I havent heard of 1Gb cards before which has confused me slightly)

Even with this , they cant be making much money I would have thought

Anyway thanks for the insight

aphex · 2 May 2006 at 10:23

Its a bit confusing tbh :s It states 2x 1gb 7900GTX cards but in the pics of the cards each card has 2 cards strapped together making a total of 4.

FrankJH · 2 May 2006 at 13:24

I read your last post and wanted to reply " I hope they didnt use selotape"
sorry just been one of those mornings.......

Bennah · 2 May 2006 at 13:32

It will be 2 physical cards. 2 7900 GTX cores on each card. Make it Quad SLI.

They are called 7900GX2 cards. Benchmarks arn't that impressive tbh. Already planning on brining out 7950GX2 cards at the end of this month.

I think at Cebit this year there was a Foxcomn setup of somesorts with actually 4 7900 series cards on the Gigabyte Quad SLI board. Shown that the CPU was a huge bottlekneck.

At this moment of time, the CPUs arn't fast enough to cope with 4 seperate cards. It will become second nature soon when we get more advanced CPUs.

Simian · 2 May 2006 at 13:38

Hows about a "Ultima Extreme SLi 7900 GT" AMD Athlon 64 FX60 Dual DDR System (FS-008-OK) for Price: £1,965.95 (£2,309.99 Including VAT at 17.5%) from this very establishment???..

Spec:

AMD Athlon 64 FX60 Dual Core San Diego (Socket 939) Dual DDR400 CPU
- AMD Approved cooler
- Asus A8N32-SLi Deluxe nForce4 SLi Dual Channel PCI-Express Motherboard
- Corsair 2GB (2x1GB) DDR XMS3500 Low Latency CAS2.0 Dual Channel Kit
- 2 x 250GB Western Digital 16mb cache SATA-2 Hard Drive (RAID 0 Configured)
- 2 x NVIDIA GeForce 7900 GT 256MB DDR3 PCI-Express Graphics Cards (SLi Configured)
- Plextor PX-755 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
- Creative Sound Blaster X-Fi Fatal1ty Sound Card
- Akasa Eclipse 62 Case
- Tagan TG530-U15 530W ATX2.01 Easycon SLi Compliant Modular Silent PSU
- Windows XP Professional pre-installed with License and CD supplied

Or "Ultima Crossfire X1900 XT-X" AMD Athlon X2 4800 Dual DDR System (FS-019-OK) For Price: £1,925.95 (£2,262.99 Including VAT at 17.5%)

Spec:

AMD Athlon X2 4800 Dual Core San Diego (Socket 939) Dual DDR400 CPU
- AMD Approved cooler
- Asus A8R32-MVP DELUXE Crossfire Dual Channel PCI-Express Motherboard
- Corsair 2GB (2x1GB) DDR XMS3200C2PT CAS2.0 Dual Channel Kit
- 250GB Western Digital 16mb cache SATA-2 Hard Drive
- ATI Radeon X1900 XT-X 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
- ATI Radeon X1900 XT CrossFire Edition 512MB GDDR3 AVIVO TV-Out/Dual DVI (PCI-Express)
- Plextor PX-755 16x16 DVD±RW Dual Layer ReWriter
- Creative Sound Blaster Fatal1ty Sound Card
- Akasa Eclipse 62 Case
- FSP Sparkle FX600-GLN Epsilon 600W ATX2.0 PSU
- Windows XP Professional pre-installed with License and CD supplied

Bennah · 2 May 2006 at 14:32

Actually, they are pretty much a solid buy looking at it. Does'nt have the Display, mouse, keyboard, speakers though. It does save him from building it him self though.

I would do with the CF setup tbh. Not going to see much difference it 200MHz and an unlocked multi over the FX60. Change of cards though, you will definatly see an improvement over the SLI setup

CF is the most sensible choice