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The Top Spec’s - Value For Money
Its Monday again. Over the weekend I thought I’d do some research into the current top specifications of motherboards and other related components. I looked at many sources over the weekend, totally for my own research. My main concern was trying to find value for money and this was something that was hard to find.
I looked into Skull Trail by Intel and Nvidia’s Top player the 780i. Skull trail obviously has the dual sockets compared to Nvidia’s single socket approach. The two boards had their differences; the Nvidia board used the faster dd3 memory channel. I was also surprised to see that Intel had four pci-e slots for four graphics card support, SLI or CrossFire using Nvidia’s chipset for PCI-e communications to the north bridge.
This may be an obvious point but Skull Trail is brilliant in show off mode but does it really give you the edge you need within the gaming markets? I found a number of benchmarks from third-party sources using GX2 systems with dual extreme Intel QX9775 yorkfield socket 771 not 775. I noticed that the skull trail motherboard used a different socket to the mainstream 775 boards but the above was obviously Intels anwser to feeding the Skull Trail architecture.
The dual C.P.U’s used are priced at £998 EACH, bargain right? I thought not! The motherboard also comes in at a staggering £384 not to mention the two GX2 at £400 each. Lets consider the outcome. To run COD4 at the max 22″ resolution 1920 by 1200 without filtering comes in at 150 FPS. Brilliant! When running Crysis at high detail with AA and AF at 4x the result? 50 60 FPS.
So is 50 to 60 FPS max for your new rig and new game? For your £2000 system? I didn’t think so. IF you got the cash then go a-head, I’m jealous! Otherwise if you want breath taking gaming platform with a good budget then wait for Q1.
