Iron Edge
Iron Edge => Off Topic Discussion => Topic started by: Myogoblin on June 11, 2009, 11:14:19 am
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Yo,
It's that time again for me to find a new machine. my old one died a death 3 months ago due the sheer abuse of me hating vista and the crappy nvidia SLI mode software crap (wish id gone ATi for the hardware now). but anyway, i need a new one and i don't want to build it, wastes my time and i need something decent to run games out there that are hungry for resources so they look top notch.
Any thoughts? I have Mac on the table as well here as I use it alot (got a dell mini 9 hackintosh i set up and love it). just not sure which model for gaming and if they really compare to windows performance (as much as i hate it ill get windows 7 which i can downgrade to XP free if it fails). powerful laptops also not ruled out :)
penny for your thoughts! (or euro cent...)
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See what folks said here (http://xoops.iron-edge.co.uk/forum-new/index.php?topic=3984.0).
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SLi may be horrible, but Crossfire has plenty of issues too. Dual GPU setups and headaches are unfortunately two peas in the same pod.
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other post was nice but i hate building it myself, i prefer a nice 4 hours response time (best thing about dell that). was very interesting to see you can get a top spec box for about €800 so if that saves me a few hundred its worth doing and no doubt parts on dabs or scan or overclockers will do the job. my last one was a Mesh, was good but so damn crap on the support and it failed all the time with parts.
i think maybe just avoid dual cards this time and see what i can rustle up, a mac would defo be double the cost.