jmke

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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leeghoofd

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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jmke

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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wutske

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)

jmke

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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wutske

that's what a high end workstation gaming rig consists of.
Anyway, even such an expensive computer doesn't justify the need for a $900 SSD

Kurgan

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.

jmke

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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wutske

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.