Geforce Battlebox in SA: the cost of building your own

Titans are a niche pieces of kit.

The Nvidia battlebox is a poor idea, one of those lets shove everything in a box and sell it for a astronomical price.
Targeting the 4k market right now is also a poor idea, 4k monitors are def the future but its not the future today, we are only now seeing 1400p monitors becoming affordable and selling on a regular basis.

I agree that we are finally seeing progress and powerful pc's are finally gonna start getting pushed to the limits but to launch something like this and aim it at a standard which is not the current standard is down right idiotic. I wish I knew what was going on at Nvidia lately.

On the 4k res note, I recently watched a video of Dirt 3 being run across 3x 4k monitors by a pair of R9 290X cards.

 
Inadvertently advertising RebelTech as well, seeing how they are the cheapest options...;)

The PC's themselves are quite achievable, but those graphic cards make up almost 50% of the price!! :eek: Madness I say. And then you have to fork out almost double for a 4K screen. Maybe this will one day be feasible, but for now I see this the same way as I see 3D gaming: it's a way to tell the world that you have money and the rest of us are poorer than you...
 
Interesting article. Nvidia specifies that the battlebox has to include a 4k monitor, though, so you may as well add another R30k+ to the prices in the article, for an Asus 4k monitor.

Given the number of people who can actually afford R80k for a PC, this whole marketing push by Nvidia seems a bit odd, but hey, I guess they're going for the whole 'aspirational' angle.
 
Wesley said:
Good Lord, look at that. So pretty. Notice how the game also doesn't have any stuttering? I wonder if each display was running in tiled mode AND in Eyefinity, or if V-Sync was just kicking in locking the game to 30fps.
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Pretty sure it was locked at 30 fps but damn it looks amazing.
Also incredibly smooth, no stuttering whatsoever.
 
The Joker said:
Pretty sure it was locked at 30 fps but damn it looks amazing.
Also incredibly smooth, no stuttering whatsoever.
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I noticed three stutters in that vid, but only when the environments changed to suddenly include forest or a large body of water. That seems to be like it was reading from a cache on the hard drive, something I also experience on DiRT 3 on my rig. Still, pretty damn impressive and its incredible that a single card powered all that.

A friend of mine also says that the R9 290X is fantastic. He's testing it out as we speak. The comparisons to a GTX780/Titan are completely justifiable, according to his findings.
 
Wesley said:
I noticed three stutters in that vid, but only when the environments changed to suddenly include forest or a large body of water. That seems to be like it was reading from a cache on the hard drive, something I also experience on DiRT 3 on my rig. Still, pretty damn impressive and its incredible that a single card powered all that.

A friend of mine also says that the R9 290X is fantastic. He's testing it out as we speak. The comparisons to a GTX780/Titan are completely justifiable, according to his findings.
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Yeah I know for a fact that's its faster than a 780, on par with 780 oc editions, no idea about overclocking though.
Not gonna bother including the titan, as most 780's are faster than a Titan.
 
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