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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: longnshort who wrote (510801)	9/6/2009 5:39:11 PM
From: bentway	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1580053

"you've got WOW, Eve and the Koreans like star craft" Yes, you're really on the cutting edge, like Ten. Show me ONE Mac like These: pcmag.com "The Extreme moniker means that system builders are free to overclock the CPUs (make them run faster than stock systems, usually by tweaking settings on the motherboard). Thus we see systems like the Velocity Micro Raptor, whose combination of Peltier and liquid cooling makes it possible for a stock 3.0-GHz processor to be bumped up to an astounding 4.4 GHz. (Peltier, or thermoelectric, cooling works a bit better than a standard heat sink.) Another rivalry that still rages on is between ATI (now owned by AMD) and nVidia for 3D graphics card supremacy. At the time of testing, we were lucky enough to get a couple of systems with ATI's new Radeon HD 4870 X2 (aka R700) cards to put up against nVidia's monster GeForce GTX 280 cards. Only one of these gaming systems, the Falcon FragBox QX9650, has a single graphics card. The others have two or even three graphics cards working together in dual and triple SLI (nVidia) and CrossFire (ATI) configurations. What's not readily apparent is that the single card in the FragBox is a dual-GPU Radeon HD 4870 X2 card, so it's still in effect a dual-GPU system. All of these systems benefit from the extra horsepower of running multiple GPUs." The Mac isn't an open system.