When Nvidia was in the Kotaku offices the other day showing off, well, something we canât quite talk about yet, they noticed we didnât have a dedicated gaming PC. (All of Kotakuâs gaming rigs are in the homes of our writers, including mine.) So they had Falcon Northwest cook up a nice little rigâIntel i7 2600K (with a splash of overclocking), 4GB oâRAM, and a couple of GTX580 cards with a grand-and-a-half of onboard RAM in SLIâand let us use it for a while.
Oh, and they threw in three 1080p 3D monitors from Asus.
Ostensibly weâre supposed to be testing 3D Vision performance in Battlefield 3, but since the beta doesnât support 3D vision yet, weâve been using the rig for other games. Like RAGE (which doesnât support 3D Vision either! Argh!).
While the Battlefield 3 beta is a little too hardware-intense for native 1:1 pixel performance on all three monitors, RAGE is doing juuuusst fine on this beastly rig, even at 2x anti-aliasing. And I havenât even installed the latest Nvidia drivers, so Iâm hoping to squeeze out a little more juice before Iâm done tinkering.
I know some of yâall think I have a grudge against PC gaming. I totally donât, even though I think PC gaming is going to change a lot and soon
https://lastchance.cc/i-cant-believe-it-the-razer-blade-might-not-just-be-th-5834795%3C/a%3E%3C/p%3E
Whatever you think, though, Iâm not ashamed at all to say that when PC gaming works rightâand ârightâ is pretty relative, as even though this machine came from Falcon with Windows 7 installed and configured I still had to do some tweaking to get everything running rightâit really does make a person feel like theyâre sitting right on the cusp of what gaming experiences are possible.
Plus PC gaming hardware gives you something that console gaming rarely offers: the chance to really brag.
