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Title: You want one of these, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Post by: idolminds on Monday, January 07, 2008, 09:48:39 PM

Well, other than buying one. (http://www.engadget.com/2008/01/07/alienware-curved-display-rocks-crysis-at-2880-x-900/)

Title: Re: You want one of these, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Post by: TheOtherBelmont on Monday, January 07, 2008, 10:08:04 PM

Jesus tap dancing christ, that is nice, probably costs an arm and a leg though.

Title: Re: You want one of these, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Post by: Pugnate on Monday, January 07, 2008, 10:30:02 PM

I saw that last night and kept wondering what the hell would power Crysis to run on that. Then I started thinking on the price, which would be easier to speculate on if we knew the size.

Title: Re: You want one of these, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Post by: gpw11 on Monday, January 07, 2008, 10:41:16 PM

DLP?  Fuuuuuuuck that.

As for what they used to get Crysis running at the resolution, that's an interesting question. 

The absolute most powerful thing I think they could have run it on would be a triple SLI 8800 Ultra.  So I think we can assume that it didn't run it well at all (http://firingsquad.com/hardware/nvidia_3-way_sli_performance/page4.asp)

Title: Re: You want one of these, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Post by: Pugnate on Monday, January 07, 2008, 10:52:51 PM

Tell you what it means then. Nvidia used some unreleased card to run it... I hope.

Title: Re: You want one of these, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Post by: Quemaqua on Tuesday, January 08, 2008, 12:28:29 AM

Yes.  And they had a graph with exploding green shit at the top of a grey box to show you just how powerful it was.

Title: Re: You want one of these, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Post by: WindAndConfusion on Tuesday, January 08, 2008, 12:31:35 AM

In fact, I do not want one of those.

I have no idea where I would even put it.

Title: Re: You want one of these, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Post by: Xessive on Tuesday, January 08, 2008, 03:34:39 AM

Would be sweet. I hope it adds support for my peripheral vision!

Title: Re: You want one of these, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Post by: gpw11 on Tuesday, January 08, 2008, 05:37:52 PM

It's funny because one of the articles I read said it has "an amazingly small footprint", and then there's a picture of it taking up an entire desk.

Title: Re: You want one of these, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Post by: Antares on Tuesday, January 08, 2008, 06:33:20 PM

"footprint" probably only refers to the part of the monitor that actually touches the desk.

but holy crap that thing is awesome.

Title: Re: You want one of these, and there is nothing you can do about it.
Post by: gpw11 on Tuesday, January 08, 2008, 06:42:05 PM

I figured that at the time (which is still stupid considering that the area directly under the monitor is still all dead space), but the stand is still massive.  It looks at least 2/3rds the length of the screen.

I don't know, if it was LCD it'd be a lot cooler.