min specs for SOW

[hellbomber]

Considering your 850 PSU - what is the setup and did you ever check actual consumption?

well TBH i got the 850w just in case i decided to go crossfire or SLI and i still may do it.. if and only if it will work well with my eyefinity, AND if SOW demands it for high settings with 2x aa.. honestly i dont see the point in 8 or 16 aa on a 1920 x 1200 screen or even 6000 x 1200 for that matter, the whole point of aa is to smooth out that ugly pixel jaggedness, which is MUCH less an issue at high res.. honestly i have tried and i cannot honestly recognize the diff between 4x aa and 16x aa on my screens.. af is another story, but still beyond 4x af the return is steadily diminishing, although it would be nice to max out id much rather have three screen eyefinity. IT IS A HUGE ADVANTAGE IN DOGFIGHTS.. i went from getting 1:2 kill ration in ful realism servers to getting 1.5:1 just after eyefinity.. it also really almost eliminates the need for track IR although i still want to try it

any way your question.

System Name: "The Triple Trader"
Processor: I7 920 D0@4.2 1.35v
Motherboard: Asus P6t Deluxe V2
Cooling: Prolimatech Megalahems 2x 1800 rpm 27 Dba
Memory: 3x 2GB Mushkin enhanced Blackline 1600mhz 7-8-7-24
Video Card: Saphire 5870(6) 2GB
Hard Disk: 2x 1TB Western Digital Caviar Black
Optical Drive: Samsung DVD burn / read
CRT/LCD Model: 3x 24" dell u2410 1920 x 1200 (eyefinity)
Case: Thermaltake Element G
Sound Card: HT Omega Claro plus
PSU: Corsair 850w
Software: Win7 Ultimate 64 bit
Benchmarks: max stable 4.2 Ghz stable at 1.35v at 75C max semi-stable 4.494 Ghz at 1.4v

my next upgrade step will most likely be a 6870, or possibly crossfire 5870 2GB ... but i really really dont want to crossfire

after that i am really kicking myself for not getting the 27" dells even though they were $1200 a pop when i built the rig, now i can get them for $600... but im thinking to myself if i do that il jsut be kicking myself later for not getting triple 30's , but the GPUs arnt powerful enough for 3 30" yet.. so most likely itll be 27"







this is when i first built it it still had the "pathetic" 5770, that only ran MW2 at 80FPS at 6000 x 1200 on high settings, and no aa ...such a pathetic card!