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[Xetsuei]

Hell yes.

[Bodzilla]

Too big, look in computer specs for size and other stuff I'm going to get. I might even go down to the 19" 1680x1050.



I really would like that, but the resolution is much too low.

really?

what is it rear projection or some shit?
i havnt seen anytihng on it for along time i forgot the specs.

also whats quad X-Fire like for the ATI cards these days? is it still shit?
what about tri-SLI?

[Xetsuei]

really?

what is it rear projection or some shit?
i havnt seen anytihng on it for along time i forgot the specs.

also whats quad X-Fire like for the ATI cards these days? is it still shit?
what about tri-SLI?

The resolution is 1440x900x2 (2880x900).

I'm not sure on Crossfire or SLI, you should ask Innergoat for that.

[Bodzilla]

but isn't a 19" native rez 1440x900? seeing as 21" is 1600x1200

which you said you wouldnt mind having :S? just checked it back out, and the response rate for the screen is insane.... to say the least.

[InnerGoat]

Hell yes.

You're in for a shitload of fail as SLI doesn't work right with SoftTH , but it will for triplehead2go. It's max is 3x 1680x1050 @ 57hz I believe.

really?

what is it rear projection or some shit?
i havnt seen anytihng on it for along time i forgot the specs.

also whats quad X-Fire like for the ATI cards these days? is it still shit?
what about tri-SLI?

Yeah it was rear projection iirc. Also, I'd stay away from anything over 2 cards just because the 3rd and 4th cards don't scale as well.

[flibitijibibo]

Tri-SLI, with good drivers, does some pretty awesome stuff. Quad-SLI has only been on 2 cards so far (excluding GTX295), so it never got too much attention and thus didn't work out too well. No idea about crossfire though.

[Xetsuei]

but isn't a 19" native rez 1440x900? seeing as 22" is 1680x1050

which you said you wouldnt mind having :S? just checked it back out, and the response rate for the screen is insane.... to say the least.

17" and 19" can be 1440x900, and 19" and 22" can be 1680x1050. I prefer the smaller of the two.

Goat, could I use SoftTH if I didn't have the GTX 295's in SLI? Or because of the fact that is a double card mean it's always in SLI?

[InnerGoat]

You can disable SLI on each card. It would probably work if you did so, but i'm not positive you won't run into problems with 4 GPUs.

[Bodzilla]

i was thinking about non widescreens... seeing as i thought the alienware screen wasnt 2 wide screens

my mistake.
:/

[343guiltymc]

Does the 8800 GTS 320mb consume more power than a 9600 GT? I don't know if my PC's crappy PSU can handle the card.