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tech: Cards for Crysis

December 7 2007 | WilHarris

For today’s show we’re taking a look at three different graphics cards that you can slot into your PC this holiday season if you’re thinking about spending the celebration of Our Lord blasting aliens and Koreans.

It’s well known that Crysis is a system-killer, but these three cards - at £100, £200 and £400 - should be able to see you through with some awesome framerates. Thanks to Alex Watson from CustomPC for coming up and showing us the range available - let us know your thoughts on the PC hardware world in the comments.

-Wil

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Carlos

December 10th, 2007 - 8:54am

This episode doesn’t seem to be viewable. When I click on play the loading animation just runs forever and the video never plays. Looks like something is messed up here.

Moving pictures and sound: Yes, that’s me in the corner, on TV, on your computer « The Wired Jester

December 10th, 2007 - 9:58am

[…] December 10, 2007 · No Comments We’ve run a couple of video pieces on the Custom PC site this year, but so far, I’ve not presented any pieces myself. It’s something I was keen to try though, so when my friend Wil, ex Editor of Bit-Tech, offered me the chance to do a guest spot on one of his new Channel Flip web TV shows, I put it off for months accepted more or less straight away. I’m talking about graphics cards for the awesome Crysis on Wil’s Unwired tech show and you can see the show here. […]

Joseph

December 11th, 2007 - 7:36pm

Words about NVIDIA and it’s 8800 GT

Dear NVIDIA,

With great pains I write this e-mail, and yet, thank you for your past excellence. These days research has become frustrating for me as I try to put together a system based on SLI and am unable to find a suitable motherboard. If NVIDIA wants to make SLI unprofitable for leading edge manufacturers like ASUS and Intel, shouldn’t then the corporation be ahead of new technology. It becomes a lesson in audacious arrogance projected toward NVIDIA while trying to find a motherboard suited for its very own 8800 GT. Unfortunately, AMD/ATI does not have enough wanted advancements, yet, for me to buy from them, so I must wait for NVIDIA to figure out how to make a motherboard for its own card. For me, this attitude that NVIDIA is responsible for, has created resentment toward NVIDIA, itself, and I should not be the only consumer that feels this way.

Dear NVIDIA, please become more customer friendly or else lose profits. The only thing that the market had to provide me with to move away from NVIDIA was an AMD-Spider or similar platform with DDR3 and four lanes running PCIe 2.0, with a few PCI. And though I would not have been totally satisfied with my purchase, I would have comforted my discontentment with NVIDIA for tying up SLI, which now I currently am even more frustrated over because of having to wait, unnecessarily. Do not believe that within the human psyche these stimuli go unnoticed when making future purchases. AMD need only prove itself to be close to NVIDIA’s performance in order to gather the loyalty of a cheated community of thoughtful enthusiasts.

Maybe there is a CEO that does not care about these matters because he or she has amassed a personal fortune. However and regretfully so, another company has allowed for the wrong move to be made, and people do not forget. I hope that in the future there will be no more hyper-capitalism from NVIDIA.

Sincerely,
Joseph

Norbit

December 14th, 2007 - 6:20am

I buy CPC every month so I knew what the advice would be but I was hoping to see some video comparisons.

@ Joseph

If you are thinking of going down the AMD spider route you should remember that their CPUs are pretty poor compared to Intel’s and I can’t see that situate changing for years. The best AMD quad core is currently outgunned in performance and price by the cheapest Intel one.