Polywell Poly i680SLI quad-core desktop reviewed
By Donald Melanson 
posted November 10th 2006 4:32AM
posted November 10th 2006 4:32AM
PC Mag's got a review of Polywell's latest high-end gaming rig, the quad-core-based Polywell Poly i680SLI, and as you can probably surmise, they found that you pretty much get what you pay for -- in this case, a lot. Based around Intel's beefy QX6700 quad-core processor, the i680SLI also comes equipped with NVIDIA's latest top-end graphics card, the GeForce 8800 GTX (just one of 'em), which accounts for a good chunk of the system's $3,250 price tag (or $3,999 with the 24-inch monitor option). The system's performance, not surprisingly, should be enough to satisfy most, aided further by the speedy 10,000 rpm hard drives (twin 150GB numbers) and 2GB of RAM. The truly sick among you also have the option of adding two more 8800 GTX cards for an SLI setup sure to impress, and bust the bank account. What's more, even with all that power under the hood, PC Mag found the system to be relatively quiet -- at least compared to other systems in this class. On the downside, they found the rig to be somewhat slower than some competing overclocked systems, and the uninspired case design (no blinking lights or alien heads) could leave some a bit disappointed, especially considering the amount of money they're forking over -- not that they'll be paying much attention to the case after they fire it up
Pwnd... ROFLm must get me one of these xD
Considering some of the other setups we've seen on here, that's not a bad price. Especially considering the 7.1 set that comes with it. I wish I had 4 grand to fork over.
Build your own for heaps less? It'll only take about 2 hours max.
"have the option of adding two more 8800 GTX cards for an SLI setup" is that a mistake or are there sli setups with 3 graphics cards now?
It only need one expensive DL (50GB discs) Blu-Ray burner drive to be complete :)
["have the option of adding two more 8800 GTX cards for an SLI setup" is that a mistake or are there sli setups with 3 graphics cards now?]
@ Lester, see quote below from this article.
http://www.dailytech.com/article.aspx?newsid=4812
Having two SLI bridge connectors onboard may possibly allow users to equip systems with three G80 GeForce 8800 series graphics cards. With two SLI bridge connectors, three cards can be connected without any troubles. NVIDIA is expected to announce its nForce 680i SLI and 650i SLI chipsets with the GeForce 8800 series. NVIDIA nForce 680i SLI and 650i SLI based motherboards are expected to have three PCI Express x16 slots.
BTW, if you like that case, it's the Enermax Chakra - just built a system with it myself. That big fan is reeeeally quiet. Around $55-$65.
http://www.enermax.com/english/product_cases_detail.asp?PrID=46
Let me know when you can use those 2 extra cores on Vista or XP.
Otherwise, HA, you just wasted money! :)