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8th June 2009, 14:47 | #1 |
Madshrimp Join Date: May 2002 Location: 7090/Belgium
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| Fatal1ty Releases ioXtreme Card by Fusion-io Johnathan “Fatal1ty” Wendel, the world’s best known PC gamer, and Fusion-io join up at the Fatal1ty E3 booth to launch the ioXtreme, a solid state storage device for high-performance PCs and workstations using 64 bit operating systems. The ioXtreme eliminates application latency, delivering the kind of storage performance once limited to the world’s fastest supercomputers. Drawing from Fusion-io’s industry-leading solid-state technologies, the ioXtreme is a PCI Express card that sits on the system bus filling the performance gap between RAM and disk drives. It adds 80 GB of non-volatile capacity, exponentially accelerating input and output, including file access, and improving application performance dramatically. http://fatal1ty.com/news/news/852.php
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9th June 2009, 05:02 | #2 |
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| Sorry Jonathan but I hardly doubt that it will sell , that price is a so no no for most gamers... "Scheduled for release in July at a list price of $895" This nifty card has the same cost as many gamers rigs out there...
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9th June 2009, 08:09 | #3 |
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| we're talking high end workstation gaming rigs no game needs this much IO, it won't improve FPS much either
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9th June 2009, 08:32 | #4 |
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| INTEL CORE i7 940 €544 2x MSI N285GTX-T2D1GB-OC €678 6Gb DDR3 €130 Other stuff for pc ~ €400 (case, psu, dvd, cooling, hdd, ...) €1752 $900 is still a lot, even in a high-end gaming rig. Only in the highest end gaming rig (Core i7 extreme + 3x GT295 which costs rougly €3000) it starts to make sens, but it's still a lot for only 80Gb. And as you already mentioned, no game needs that much IO, it'll only improve load times and maybe even lower the FPS (high IO = more CPU power needed) |
9th June 2009, 09:17 | #5 |
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| Why would you buy a Core i7 Wutske? E8400/HD4890/4Gb DDR2/P45 Mobo is all you need definitely less than than half of what you propose and if it's 5% slower it will be a lot.
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9th June 2009, 11:36 | #7 |
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| I dunno, I game quite a bit and I have no issues with my Q9450/EP45-UD3P/GTX 260. I'm personally sticking with this setup til I see some boards with Sata 3 and USB 3 hit mainstream. |
9th June 2009, 17:28 | #8 |
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| only at 1920x1200 Crysis Warhead and 2560x1600 AA enabled do you need a more powerful VGA to get the most out of your gaming experience. But if you want to stress your hardware, I've found Oblivion with a ton of visual enhancement mods which make the game simply gorgeous to be quite taxing, 1920x1200 4xAA/16xAF I'm seeing min FPS of 10-15 average 20-25fps , this with a Geforce 9800 GTX. GTX 260 will do better of course, but still not above 60fps
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10th June 2009, 06:41 | #9 |
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| Ah well, some people just have too much money on their hands and spend it on something they don't need . Having mind-end hardware is nowadays powerfull engouh for gaming with high settings. |
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