Thursday, December 11, 2008

Nvidia GTX 295

The main advantage(from my point of view at least) of being a console gamer is that you don't have to buy new hardware every other day just to keep playing the latest games, more like every 3-4 years. However, if you have some cash to burn and are a PC gamer and play Crysis with all settings on high at 2560x1600 with two screens, then I can see the Nvidia GTX 295 being for you. As Gizmodo so lovingly puts it, "its basically two GTX 200 GPUs hot-glued together", which sounds like the Intel Core 2 Quad(a great chip don't get me wrong). or standard SLI. It requires 289W of electricity, so don't expect this to just go into any system without a new PSU. Aside from that, you are going to need the latest and greatest processor just to feed this thing, although if you are considering buying it you probably already have 12GB of DDR3 and a Core i7. Expected to cost $500 upon release. So if you need a new space heater or just really love seeing FRAPs report over 100fps, this is for you.

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