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Posted: 10 Jan 2008 at 1:34am

Nice Alex, not surprising, but very nice.

I'm just waiting to see the new and improved version when the new NVidia 9800 GX2 GPU's hit. I want to see benchmarks of a Twister running two of those bad boys in quad SLi.

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Posted: 10 Jan 2008 at 3:19am

specs?

Pro case with extra fan
Quad Q6600 2.4 OC'd 3.1!
Nvidia 8800GT
Asus Maximus Formula Mobo
2xgb 800mhz corsair

xfire - xuntiltheendx

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Posted: 10 Jan 2008 at 3:24am

Digital Storm Twister Extreme Specifications
Case	Exotic Red StormPaint Finish
Power Supply	1000W PC Power & Cooling
CPU	Intel Core 2 Quad QX6850 @ 3.66 GHz
Motherboard	EVGA NVIDIA 680i SLI
Memory	2GB Corsair Dominator DDR2-1066
Hard Drives	2 x 150GB Western Digital Raptor X 10K RPM - RAID 0 2 x 750GB Western Digital SE16 - RAID 0
Optical Drives	16x DVD-ROM reader 20x DVD-Writer
Video Cards	3 x EVGA GeForce 8800 Ultra 768MB 3-Way SLI support
Sound Card	On-board 8-channel audio
CPU Cooling	Liquid Chilled CPU (Phantom Black Liquid)
Case Lighting	Blizzard internal lighting cold cathode
Operating System	Windows Vista Ultimate 32-bit
Warranty	3 year Platinum care extended parts/labor
Assembly	Hand built by the industry's most skilled technicians

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Posted: 10 Jan 2008 at 3:25am

Originally posted by sundowner

specs?

Was wondering that myself, since "twister" means ANY type of computer, and the blackbird is fully customizable as well.

For all we know the DS comp could have SLI ultras and the blackbird using a single 8800.

I seriously doubt that the specs were identical, because I'm pretty sure hp bloatware doesn't cut system performance in half.

*edit* Hah, I knew it!

Edited by syn - 10 Jan 2008 at 3:26am

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Posted: 10 Jan 2008 at 3:41am

1 Ultra vs 3? Not too surprising of an outcome, but for $4700 and only 1 Ultra... DSO's version is around $6000 and you get 3 instead.

Pro case with extra fan
Quad Q6600 2.4 OC'd 3.1!
Nvidia 8800GT
Asus Maximus Formula Mobo
2xgb 800mhz corsair

xfire - xuntiltheendx

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Posted: 10 Jan 2008 at 3:44am

Heh. I'll say that the Crysis benchmark is not what impresses me. Those minimum framerates are still not what I would call acceptable, so *meh* (and btw, that indifference is leveled squarely at Crysis, *not* DSO's rig). The bigger thing is Call of Jaurez. I have never seen a NVidia based system maintain frames like this before:

Normally, in order to get that kind of framerate, you're looking at a crossfire platform, since the game is one of the few titles out there that was optimized for ATI GPU's. A min frame rate of 36 in that game, at that resolution on a Nvidia based system, is *IMPRESSIVE*.

Edited by Tyler Lowe - 10 Jan 2008 at 3:46am

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Posted: 10 Jan 2008 at 9:19am

Alex, we talked about this. That computer was supposed to be shipped to me for testing Wink

That was one sweet write up and rig.

Extreme Case-Stage 2 cooling
Q6600
EvGA 680i A1 revision mobo
2 8800 512Mb GTS in SLI
4Gb Dominator 800Mhz overclocked
150Gb Raptor + 400Gb HDs
Vista Ultimate (64 bit)

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