A few days ago I noticed this post on Gizmodo highlighting that Falcon Northwest is now selling a gaming PC capable of running Crysis on its highest settings at 60 FPS.
That’s cool, I guess, because it’s apparently the first ever to manage this, but it should come as no surprise how they pulled it off — the PC uses nothing but the best of the latest retail hardware. The cost?
Over $8,000. No, seriously. Might as well get yourself a Real Doll if you think buying a computer like that is a worthwhile investment.
But NVIDIA, not to be outdone, is now offering what they call a personal supercomputer for a mere $10,000. With 960 parallel-processing CPU cores, they claim it’s up to 250x faster than a normal PC. Of course, given that no software has native support for that kind of bollocks, presumably you’d need to rewrite Crysis and its engine from scratch.
But I suppose getting more than 60 FPS in a crappy game is worth it to tell Falcon Northwest to shove it.
Because 60 FPS is never enough.
A few days ago I noticed this post on Gizmodo highlighting that Falcon Northwest is now selling a gaming PC capable of running Crysis on its highest settings at 60 FPS.
That’s cool, I guess, because it’s apparently the first ever to manage this, but it should come as no surprise how they pulled it off — the PC uses nothing but the best of the latest retail hardware. The cost?
Over $8,000. No, seriously. Might as well get yourself a Real Doll if you think buying a computer like that is a worthwhile investment.
But NVIDIA, not to be outdone, is now offering what they call a personal supercomputer for a mere $10,000. With 960 parallel-processing CPU cores, they claim it’s up to 250x faster than a normal PC. Of course, given that no software has native support for that kind of bollocks, presumably you’d need to rewrite Crysis and its engine from scratch.
But I suppose getting more than 60 FPS in a crappy game is worth it to tell Falcon Northwest to shove it.