Bokishi

No i'm just sick of hearing people say that XP is faster for games. Vista is truly the fastest for games if you have the hardware. XP just doesn't have the capability to take advantage of more than two videocards, while Vista is coded so it can sli 3 or 4 cards

Vista will always be faster for me now, since XP can only use 2 videocards

Dude, don't open the PSU

Bose. Get noise canceling ones so you don't have to hear the computer fans

My guess is the PSU and CoolerMaster PSU's being crap. My last PSU was a CoolerMaster 850w and had an occasional issue where my system wouldn't boot up unless I unplugged and replugged the power thing, and I don't have that issue anymore with my new 1200w SilverStone Decathlon Also try testing each card individually, and see if the problem still happens, for it might be an SLI issue

Noooooo PC gaming suxx0r

Thanks pixie! Lights in the room going dim has been reportedly happening during boot up for some other tri-SLI users. I haven't tested boot up at night yet, so I'll let you know what happens...

It's weird how people associate computer hardware with not getting any. I'd totally post teh women I pull, but that wouldn't be respectful

Thanks kiro and nightshape

Spring updates in bold Wolfdale e8400 @ 4.0 GHz EVGA nForce 680i EVGA 8800 GTX x3 Tri-SLI 4 GB Corsair Dominators SB X-Fi Extreme Audio PCI-E 150GB RaptorX 1TB Hitachi Deskstar 1.2kw SilverStone Decathlon CoolerMaster Stacker 830 30" Dell 3007WFP-HC Windows Vista x64

I was hitting 17,600 when I had just two and the e8400. However 3DMark's default testing res is 1280x1024, and no real benefit can be seen from the 3rd 8800 until I put the res at 2560x1600 (at least crysis is now smooth as butter at that res)

Almost 18,000. I'm kind of disappointed

I'm sure you can find a buyer for the third 8800. Either that or now you have an excuse to go buy a mobo that supports 3-way SLI. It fit better than I thought lol

So I get another 8800 for my b-day. I was gonna say omg take it back I already have two, but I decided to be polite about it

Thanks guys! and add 10 to that 12 for my real age

Getting to make actual use of 4-gigs of RAM is an advantage. Crysis 64 having better mountain textures is an advantage This mod I've been playing for HL2 requires 64-bit and 4-gigs of RAM, but it's freakin amazing http://halflife2.filefront.com/file/Fakefa...0_Part_16;88111 32-bit programs and games run just as good, when I compare to running them in 32-bit XP, since 64-bit CPU is backward compatible with x86, I don't think any emulation is involved

There's no fear in going 64-bit

I didn't mean actual-real mus, just real enough to make the fantasy game world believable, and that means being able to do what you want. I'm getting sick of this topic

Realism is the pinnacle of gaming, and is what most games strive for, which is also why game system requirements keep getting higher and higher. Games will always continue to get more real in some ways as long as the realism doesn't interfere with fun (one shot deaths are no fun)

I know. The problem is that you can't say that more exploration is equal to greater graphics and as such shouldn't be a question, they are two completely different aproaches to singeplayer FPS unlike greater graphics vs. worse graphics where the difference between them is incremental. Why shouldn't I say that? They are both used to give more realism. Better visuals make a game seem more real. Flexibility let's you go where you want, which seems more real since you don't follow a scripted track in real life

Heavy foliage is ironically the place where I get the most FPS 35-40 avg. Where I get the least FPS is when it rains or snows...

Yea lets play Crackdown

The vid is saying that COD4 is following a dated formula, contrasting against modern games which are getting more and more freedom. More freedom is like better graphics; it's newer and superior. I played the first level of Crysis like 5 times, all differently. I only played the first level of COD4 once, since I saw everything the first time.

They're sold out again LAWL

Haha, I wonder if stock is permanent this time