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Thats (excuse the pun, its not intended) cool.

I think everyone just need to chill (again no pun intended) and just take the video for what it is...

...why is everyone such a critic these days? Everybody seems to think they can do a better job ...well maybe you can but its great to see you are all humble about it.

Nonsense overclock though...

Why haven't pushed the GTX280 to the top? Neither the Core2Duo has been pushed ¬¬

I am running on a 2x8800GT SLI and on an AMD Opteron 1214 pushed up to 2'96GHz on H2O and I DO have a big bottleneck since neither CPU bandwith nor 2x 8x chipset allows me to get rid of it. So it's not worth the kinda CPU u use, i's more the chipset you have. Mine is a discrete 570SLI.

So in the next guide she'd better show us how to reduce bottlenecks. We all know to put a chilling tube, lil of thermal tape and LN2 to overclock our rides, but not to tweak ForceWares to make our systems run as they were intended to be: good.

We don't wanna know that you need 600US$ on GPUs and 500US$ in mb&CPU to play Crysis fairly good. It's too well-known I think.

Nonsense overclock though...

Why haven't pushed the GTX280 to the top? Neither the Core2Duo has been pushed ¬¬

I am running on a 2x8800GT SLI and on an AMD Opteron 1214 pushed up to 2'96GHz on H2O and I DO have a big bottleneck since neither CPU bandwith nor 2x 8x chipset allows me to get rid of it. So it's not worth the kinda CPU u use, i's more the chipset you have. Mine is a discrete 570SLI.

So in the next guide she'd better show us how to reduce bottlenecks. We all know to put a chilling tube, lil of thermal tape and LN2 to overclock our rides, but not to tweak ForceWares to make our systems run as they were intended to be: good.

We don't wanna know that you need 600US$ on GPUs and 500US$ in mb&CPU to play Crysis fairly good. It's too well-known I think.

This video would have made more sense if she said that she is trying to prove a 2 core cpu is not bottlenecked. but who knows perhaps it is since she didnt show the quad core results. Also if she overclocked it why not push it to the limit since your using liquid nitrogen. 729 MHz is nothing since the XXX edition of the card does 670MHz. I have a 8600 gt XXX edition running at 680MHz stock. I overclocked it to 730MHz with it only wearing its stock XFX heatsink and fan. the GPU temp under stress was around the 55-60 mark. She should have gotten 800-1000 core speed no problem.

Im still confused about SLI. They have a bundle deal advertised on this site that includes a 8200 motherboard and a 8600 gt with 1 gig of memory. they intend you run the 2nd video card in Hybrid SLI with the 8200 motherboard which has only 256mb of memory. first i thought u needed to match GPU's for SLI. 2nd what advantage do u get running this setup in SLI since from my understanding the 8600 would only be allowed to use 256mb of memory to match the onboard video card. i bet u would be better off running the single 8600, NO?

Anywho cool video, you just need to work on your points and logic a bit harder.

The comments are comical. Thanks for the video.

Okay lets try to get to reality here, most of us dont have the major bucks to invest let alone having access to liquid nitrogen..if your gonna show us anything show us on how to mod our boards..etc. I dont mind modest FPS gains and keeping my rig under control but this was too overblown for me....sorry.

4GB of memory on a 32bit OS? :(

Yeah... the previous comments are absolutely inappropriate!
She has simply showed that in most cases, the vga is the true limit in the performance.

Well, all the whining detractors didn't really think, did they. I guess she assumed you people were smarter than you actually are.
She showed how when she added the second GTX280 in SLI, she increased the score by X2.14, thereby PROVING the CPU was not bottlenecked.
I think she proved her point very well, that the E8400 is plenty sufficient.

C'mon guys, trashing the girl is out of line.

The point of the video is simple, to show you that you do not need to have a high end quad core cpu to get extreme performance out of current gpu's.

A high end gpu was used becuase if there was some sort of cpu bottleneck then it would be the most likely to show it.

Instead of of jumping to brainless conclusions and flaming away, stop and think about it.

So where is the comparison to the quad core extreme?

This whole video is useless.... you didnt prove what you stated you would prove.

Come on NVIDIA why do you have to make your employees look like idiots?

I dont see any E8400 at the top of the vantage lists.

I can build a gaming machine out of P4 and a 7600gt but just because I can doesnt mean its better than a quad core. IDIOTS

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Not practical...

Did not say how much the liquid nitrogen cost.

Did not say the run time at the maximum speed....

What does this prove? Do I need to be pouring liquid nitrogen in my Core 2 duo PC to achieve results camparable of that of a quad core? If that's the case I will just buy the quad core.

she needs a clubbin' for passing that off as math... no scientific method in evidence at all (apart from the lolcopter hazmat suit required by legal dept for video)

What a loser!

2× NVIDIA GeForce GTX 280 graphics cards $$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$$

Não tenho nada a dizer nem sei pq estou dizendo algo se ninguem vai me entender msmo...of brasil...

GEt a life you loser!

Well, I know high clock single or dual core to-date aren't really slower than a quad-core for current games, so this isn't new.

On the other hand, on my Quad-core system I'm running the BOINC grid client all the time, regardless of what I'm doing (gaming, video editing, etc) and my dual-core wasn't able to do that without impacting the experience negatively.

Anyway, show a more realistic water or air-cooled overclock comparison of the CPUs, and that would have more value.

That being said, glad she seemed to enjoy making the video and her foray into more extreme overclocking.

it would be a more convincing demo if she was half naked while benchmarking. totally worthless video. give me back the 4 min i wasted watching this stupid video.

basic math tells us that when you buy a second gtx280, you automatically get free LN2 for the rest of your rig's life, allowing you to OC enough to get 2.14x the performance...

do they think we're idiots?

Lol @ Nvidia slinging mud at Intel first chance they get. If they're so sure they could compete in the CPU market, what's keeping them from trying ? We could sure use the competition.

But throwing mindless accusations at Intel is not going to get them much respect.

I can very well live with a Core 2 Duo and an 8600 GT and be 100% productive in my workflow. I'm sure my productivity would decrease dramatically if I went for a slower CPU and use a top Nvidia board. (mainly because the GPU is not the backbone of any computing activity, even though Nvidia would like to think otherwise)

Please, put an end to these defamatory articles, they reflect poorly on your company.

Impressive score, but utterly useless as a "gaming rig". LN2 evaporation rates are too high to game with thats why people use quick n clean bench apps like 3DMark and not actually game.

Your 2.14x basic math, is worthless since the 2nd score was based off of an LN2 oc'd setup.

And if your gonna put the C2D vs C2Q "to the test" as you say, where are the same settings with the different processors?

Its a nice blog update but imo not very well thought out.