Two words can describe the rig that was posted before this. Epic and Fast… There were many issues getting this together but that’s what you get with hardware that came out less than 15 days ago. My 3D Mark 06 score is in the low 20,000’s and ingame the framerate is just amazing with over 250+ FPS in most games. But we can’t forget the game crysis with it’s absurd system requirements. It averages around 60-65 on Very High 4xAA Settings.

I had many problems with drivers, bluescreens, and heating issues. Drivers ended up turning off the fans on the Dual 9800GX2’s causing them to overheat and the bluescreens were caused by a Vista x64 kernel issue not properly reading over 4GB of available memory. So far it’s been at a stable 100-110~F on all 4 Cores of the GPU and the max I’ve gotten is about a 130F. The GPU’s start to throttle down when it reaches a temp of 220~F so we can see that NVIDIA left quite a bit of room for overclocking.

I did have this at Sparty Lan Party, where it was down most of the time towards the end… just my luck. If you’d like to see this rig in action; I’d recommend driving to Big Shot Gaming at Central Michigan University. They did a great job planning this and with over $3,500 dollars in prizes it’s something you cannot miss!

Anyways there are some pictures of the rig from start to finish, you can view them here.