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GX-Brandon (369)   Feb 17, 2007 - 02:39 pm

Eye: Vista drivers for the 8800 GTS used for testing aren't up to snuff just yet. I honestly don't know when we're going to make the transition to Vista on the testbeds, as the drivers just aren't 100% yet. » Login to reply to this  Eye of the Night (351)   Feb 17, 2007 - 08:12 pm Understandable, but Vista isn't the only NUMA-aware OS available...as you also pointed out in the article. :) » Login to reply to this  Trogdor (39)   Feb 18, 2007 - 09:49 am No one that primarily runs games gives a rip about the other NUMA aware OS options. NUMA is fine for stuff like workstations and servers, but gaming is going to be done 99.9% on Windows XP right now. It's all about the drivers, and until we see DirectX 10 enabled games, it really doesn't matter much. Don't forget that NUMA also doesn't mean jack squat unless you run at least four DIMMs, so either you purchase junk 512MB DIMMs (yeehaw - I have quad core and I'm going to totally limit the amount of memory I can install... and I'll upgrade to the much ballyhooed native quad core in the future, because that certainly won't cost an arm and a leg!) or you have to purchase 4GB of RAM and run a 64-bit OS. What were we saying about drivers a moment ago? LOL I'd also really like to see overclocked Q6600 results thrown in. $210 + $850 gets you the EVGA 680i with Q6600, compared to $610 + $350. Throw in $100 of HSFs on the 680a and $50 on the 680i. Total difference in price is going to be about $100 in favor of the AMD setup, but I'd wager you can get about 3.4-3.5 GHz out of the Q6600. But of course, we're still missing an octal core upgrade path (rolls eyes). » Login to reply to this

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