Too much hardware has been recently launched for Legit Reviews to benchmark in such a short period of time, so we took all the products and built one killer test machine with a price tag pushing north of $4,000. The hardware is the best money can by and this is one of the only articles on the web showing a pair of XFX GeForce 8800 GTX graphics cards running in SLI.
A number of new products launch today and since some of the products we had just a day or two in advance it was impossible to get a full article published on each product as it often takes well over a week to correctly benchmark a new product. To build one of the fastest systems on the market today that would get people talking I started off with the just released eVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard and mounted up the recently reviewed Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Processor QX6700 to power the system.
I then used the pair of XFX GeForce 8800GTX graphics cards that were launched today in combination with a SilverStone Zeus power supply. Since each GeForce 8800GTX comes with two 6-pin PCIe power headers per card and running a pair in SLI requires at least a 750W PSU we had to upgrade the PSU on our test bench and the 850W SilverStone Zeus provided clean power for our dream machine. To keep the data flowing smoothly we ran a set of Corsair DOMINATOR PC2-9136 memory modules that were also released on the market today and a Western Digital 250GB SATA hard drive. Since the Intel quad-core processor gets pretty hot the CPU will be cooled thanks to a Corsair Nautilus 500 water cooling unit. This machine is so impressive and expensive this is by far the dream machine of gamers around the world.
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A number of new products launch today and since some of the products we had just a day or two in advance it was impossible to get a full article published on each product as it often takes well over a week to correctly benchmark a new product. To build one of the fastest systems on the market today that would get people talking I started off with the just released eVGA nForce 680i SLI motherboard and mounted up the recently reviewed Intel Core 2 Quad Extreme Processor QX6700 to power the system.
I then used the pair of XFX GeForce 8800GTX graphics cards that were launched today in combination with a SilverStone Zeus power supply. Since each GeForce 8800GTX comes with two 6-pin PCIe power headers per card and running a pair in SLI requires at least a 750W PSU we had to upgrade the PSU on our test bench and the 850W SilverStone Zeus provided clean power for our dream machine. To keep the data flowing smoothly we ran a set of Corsair DOMINATOR PC2-9136 memory modules that were also released on the market today and a Western Digital 250GB SATA hard drive. Since the Intel quad-core processor gets pretty hot the CPU will be cooled thanks to a Corsair Nautilus 500 water cooling unit. This machine is so impressive and expensive this is by far the dream machine of gamers around the world.
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