OH.. MY.. GOD!!!

[Professor S]

http://gear.ign.com/articles/679/679405p1.html

The XPS Renegade is so powerful, in fact, that, according to Dell, its performance figures rank each Renegade system as the 70th most powerful super-computer in the world.

[DarkMaster]

Man, if I was $20,000 richer...

[GameMaster]

Oh baby!

[KillerGremlin]

Yayyyyyyy a Dell. And I bet it's overpriced.

Wait a year, and you'll be able to buy and assemble all that stuff for much much less.

[Professor S]

Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

Yayyyyyyy a Dell. And I bet it's overpriced.

Wait a year, and you'll be able to buy and assemble all that stuff for much much less.

Yeah, but if Dell didn't put this together now, would you be able to do that? Their R&D = your cheaper super-computer down the road. Its still sick to think that personal computers have come to the point that a single person or family can afford such a beast.

Besides, if this was a Mac you would have to take out a second mortgage for the keyboard... and then immediate get the next keyboard in a month when they make it 11% smaller and call it the "nanoboard".

[Stonecutter]

Originally Posted by Professor S

Yeah, but if Dell didn't put this together now, would you be able to do that? Their R&D = your cheaper super-computer down the road. Its still sick to think that personal computers have come to the point that a single person or family can afford such a beast.

Besides, if this was a Mac you would have to take out a second mortgage for the keyboard... and then immediate get the next keyboard in a month when they make it 11% smaller and call it the "nanoboard".

It wouldn't be 11% smaller. It would be blue.

[MuGen]

Originally Posted by Professor S

Yeah, but if Dell didn't put this together now, would you be able to do that? Their R&D = your cheaper super-computer down the road. Its still sick to think that personal computers have come to the point that a single person or family can afford such a beast.

Besides, if this was a Mac you would have to take out a second mortgage for the keyboard... and then immediate get the next keyboard in a month when they make it 11% smaller and call it the "nanoboard".

I agree with Professor S.... truth be told, down the road these building your own system with the same performance would only be possible because of systems before it. Now that the architecture is there, people will be able to either build their system based on it, or just buy the XPS renegade... which by all means is probably the more popular decision considering anyone who is looking to puchase a 'super' computer.. .can afford this system.

[Happydude]

:whoa:

even though i'm an AMD and ATI fanboy, i wouldn't mind having that PC...although the price would definelty make me think thrice.

[KillerGremlin]

Originally Posted by MuGen

I agree with Professor S.... truth be told, down the road these building your own system with the same performance would only be possible because of systems before it. Now that the architecture is there, people will be able to either build their system based on it, or just buy the XPS renegade... which by all means is probably the more popular decision considering anyone who is looking to puchase a 'super' computer.. .can afford this system.

I suppose, but the price of components drops pretty fast these days. Dell's mass production of the stuff will probably lower costs, but I feel sorry for the people that get stuck with the original Dells.

[Null]

Originally Posted by Professor S

Yeah, but if Dell didn't put this together now, would you be able to do that?

yes.

maybe because i didnt read this artical, but im not seeing what this discussion is about....

its a couple of duel nvidia cards in sli mode.

nvidia woulda still made that card whether dell put it together or not, im sure nvidia gave dell a deal on the cards for putting this system together.. but aside from that part... what is it dells doing that woudlnt of been done anyway?

(im seriously asking this as a question, not as a side of an argument)

seems like its a normal SLI motherboard, with 2 16x slots, and 2 of the duel 7800 gfx cards. seems to me this could be built as soon as nvidia relases the card.

but, thats what im unclear of.. what makes it otherwise?

[KillerGremlin]

Well, my original post before I edited it,
"I wasn't aware Dell invented SLI."

But, if Dell can help mass-produce the product, it will lower price, which ultimately benefits me.

[Null]

i think dell makes thier own motherboards, but they're just normal motherboards, nothing special... other then that, every part dell gets is bought the same way people who build thier own computers get them. buy the part, put it on the pc.

maybe nvidia made the deal to get them cheaper to dell, AND get them to dell before they hit the market...

sli was around quite awhile ago by nvidia.. then went away for a while and recently they brought it back again.





And actually apon reading a bit more about this pc, Dell didnt even make the motherboard in it.. its a nForce4 SLI X16 motherboard, (and i cant quite tell for sure, some pics look like its 4 seperate 7800's and some pics look like 2 double 7800's (2 cards put together into 1, using 1 slot, but two thick)

it is however dells case..... airbrushed.

i think this could be built as soon as nvidia releases the card.

[KillerGremlin]

Oh, but you won't get the kick-ass case, which is totally worth the added hundreds of dollars Dell is likely to charge you.

[Null]

lol. yea that case alone is jacking the price up at least a couple hundred. not that the case itself is overly good, but any case with airbrush artwork is expensive as hell.

[MrCoffee]

eer...i dno bout all you guys, but all that computer really gets you is bragging rights....and it can power your car...