http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/ Engadget Comments for NVIDIA GeForce GTX 285 in tri-SLI reviewed: great performance, not so great price tag http://www.engadget.com/media/feedlogo.gif http://www.engadget.com en-us Copyright 2012 Weblogs, Inc. The contents of this feed are available for non-commercial use only. Blogsmith http://www.blogsmith.com/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 12:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 1:02PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/]]>Jan 27th 2009 1:21PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 12:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/
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Nvidia is more expensive but their technology is better and more efficient. ATI sticks with a little older technology but tends to maximize those persuits. There was a big press release about ati's "new direction" about a year ago and how they are going to try to go for "real world" results at lower price points instead of trying to compete for the most advanced technology against nvidia in graphics and intel for processors.

Ati/amd has been very successful and I am anxious to see the x2 rendition of the 4890, but as it stands nvidia has always been able to stay ahead of ati at the top end.]]>Apr 8th 2009 11:06AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 5:57PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/


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@Scott K: that's not what she said]]>Jan 27th 2009 1:58PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/
My question is, what is so special about GTA4 that it needs advanced graphics. I played that game on Xbox 360, looks great and all, so why is there a need to get the latest Video Card to play that game?]]>Jan 27th 2009 1:03PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 1:11PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/
http://www.tomshardware.com/news/grand-theft-auto-gta4-pc,6666.html
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Crysis has life-like physics. Every single tree, leaf, building, rock, ALL are moveable/destructible. No other game is as advanced in that way. Crysis also has real wind, and extremely advanced weather and AI. It's pretty damn well optimized, actually. The fact that it'll run on a 6600GT on a Pentium 4 (albeit on minimum graphics levels) is still impressive]]>Jan 27th 2009 1:28PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/
The 360's 3.2 GHz tri-core processor and the Cell are WEAK? I'd like to see what you have running in your computer.
No wait, let me guess, is it that AMD that was overclocked to 6.5 GHz and cooled with liquid helium?]]>Jan 27th 2009 5:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 6:27PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/
Actually, kavu you're somewhat wrong. First of all, Spartan, you have to understand that different processors are capable of different things. cores and clock speed mean nothing. For example, the Xbox 360 (IIRC) and PS3 both have poor branch predictors and don't support out of order execution, which means code that does anything "fancy" (IE not just vector math for example) brings both procs to their knees. Secondly, if your comparing two processor arch and they both do 1 instruction per clock and one runs at 3Ghz but takes 100 instructions to add, while you have another a 1Ghz that can do it in 1 instruction, which one is faster?

Secondly, you have to remember not all games are CPU bound, there are other factors in the equation. What about how fast textures can get from the media (HD CD DVD ETC) to the video card? What about memory latencies and interconnect speeds?

So yeah, think about what your saying if you don't know what you're talking about.]]>Jan 27th 2009 7:05PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 7:31PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/
It's the first console game that is being compared to Crysis in terms of graphics.

(Although Crysis is still the winner since it's running on a fucking PC, but still, look how gorgeous KZ2.)]]>Jan 28th 2009 3:01AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/
Requirements are a 256 MB graghics card
1.8 gh processor
1 gb ram

You could play GTA IV at max settings with a 4 year old graphics card easily.

Crysis on the other and is extremely intensive because of dynamic lighting, super high polygon counts, physics calculations and a slew of other factors.]]>Apr 8th 2009 11:21AMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 1:10PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/
Is corporate lingo beginning to permeate at engadget?

I say: To fully harness proper synergies, they first have enforce a unilateral paradigm, before putting boots on the ground to forecast a performance downsizing, and ultimately the strategic plan will have to be decided by a breakout benchmarking of competitive values before we can fully utilize a tri-SLI set up.]]>Jan 27th 2009 1:19PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/
Now that's thinking with your pointy hair!]]>Jan 27th 2009 1:48PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 1:51PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 1:59PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/
Actually, the use of synergistic in this article is completely wrong. Synergism means that the effectiveness of 2 or more things working together is GREATER than the sum of the individual parts. For the cards to work synergistically, the tri-SLI setup would have to offer MORE than 300% of the performance of a single-GTX285, which is definitely not the case.

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Brand it as a Cray, and name it the Cray Harpertown Operton Phenom Duo Quad Extreme GTX X4 II 285 X-1 supercomputer, Powered by NVIDIA, Intel, AMD, and wants of gamers 'round the world of 1000 fps rates on Crysis

Cray, for the heavy gamers among us]]>Jan 27th 2009 6:47PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 7:24PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 7:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 7:07PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 27th 2009 7:09PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Here is my budget rig(my only rig) and it runs all games beautifully w/res 1920x1200 vsync=on(I HATE TEARING!)
Gtx260---------------------------$250
Intel e8500 @4.00Ghz-----$170
4GB OCZ Reaper 1066----$70
Gigabyte mobo---------------$70
As you can see it's not the size of the e-penor that counts...since chances are you will be playing with it by yourself:)

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get a 40$ utility price hike for the month]]>Jan 28th 2009 5:34PMhttp://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/http://www.engadget.com/2009/01/27/nvidia-geforce-gtx-285-in-tri-sli-reviewed-great-performance-n/Jan 29th 2009 3:02PM