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Nightwolf
2 Mar 2006, 10:05pm
As UT2K7 is just about the best-looking game on the horizon, we couldn't help but wonder about its potentially ominous system requirements. Our plans to stave off another PC upgrade weren't emboldened much by Morris' admission that the onstage demo was running on a quad-SLI setup, either. (Yes, that's four GeForce 7800 GTXs running in a single system.) But luckily, the game will purportedly run well on reasonably powerful, middle-of-the-road hardware at the time of its release, so you likely won't have to break the bank to be able to compete. Of course, the game will have extensive graphics-customization options, so you can tweak settings to get more performance in a tradeoff for visual quality.

Just saw this on gamespot in an article over UTK2007. When did quad sli systems come out...i've never heard or seen anything like that?

LINK: http://www.gamespot.com/pc/action/unrealtournament2007/preview_6145208.html
Thrax
2 Mar 2006, 10:47pm
About 2 months ago.
tmh88
3 Mar 2006, 12:13am
What in the world would you ever need 4 cards for(and arent they dual cores too?). Thats way more power than anyone needs. Imagine the psu that you need for it. Most processors probably couldn't even handle that. Its pretty cool, but a big waste of money.
RWB
3 Mar 2006, 1:23am
I'm sure they did that to make sure it ran smooth during the tech demo. It's not complete, optimizations have not been fully implemented.... I am sure it'll play nicely on most of our computers wen it comes out.
MountainDew
3 Mar 2006, 1:59am
Imagine the psu that you need for it. Most processors probably couldn't even handle that. Its pretty cool, but a big waste of money.


I've seen this and some other crazy setups like the dual-core SLI setup, and if I remember correctly the cards had external power, as in they plugged into another wall outlet rather than using the psu.

For a normal consumer, yes a waste of money, but you must admit its still pretty darn cool.
Nightwolf
3 Mar 2006, 2:34am
I've seen this and some other crazy setups like the dual-core SLI setup, and if I remember correctly the cards had external power, as in they plugged into another wall outlet rather than using the psu.

For a normal consumer, yes a waste of money, but you must admit its still pretty darn cool.
But you'd have to use a psu for rectification!
tmh88
3 Mar 2006, 2:55am
I've seen this and some other crazy setups like the dual-core SLI setup, and if I remember correctly the cards had external power, as in they plugged into another wall outlet rather than using the psu.

For a normal consumer, yes a waste of money, but you must admit its still pretty darn cool.


yea i saw that external power source for the dual core 7800GTX asus.