Conclusion
The results are pretty rosy for the MaxForce Revolution GTX3—it’s a solid, powerful PC that can shrug off anything you throw at it, created by a small communicative company with a strong warranty, and all for a reasonable price.
The MaxForce Revolution GTX3 is a good deal cheaper than competing high-end rigs, like HP’s Blackbird 002 LC or Falcon Northwest’s Mach 5, but it’s at least as fast and usually faster when it comes to gaming and includes a warranty that’s at least as good if not better.
Comparing it to the home-brew System Builder Marathon machine we made in March of 2008, the MaxForce is very close in cost when we look at today’s prices, but it removes the burden of system assembly and knowledgeable overclocking tweaks. At the same time, the firm offers a warranty that you wouldn’t get by doing it yourself.
Our only real issue is the lack of a water cooling option for the CPU. Our System Builder Marathon PC, in addition to the HP and Falcon Northwest machines, are water cooled for a reason: quad-core CPUs overclocked to 4 GHz put out a lot of heat, and we’re not so sure air cooling will handle it well in the long term. While the MaxForce warranty would cover any problems, 4 GHz for a quad is a lot to expect on air cooling. We thus think an option to add a liquid cooling system such as Swiftech’s H20-220 would hit the MaxForce Revolution GTX3 out of the park. Having said that, we still think the Revolution GTX3 is a great system for the money when all things are considered.
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Why is Crysis exceptionally run on 32-bit mode??? Your test setup states that you are running 64-bit everything. Of course 4870x2 in crossfire will be a pig in 32-bit os.
the 4Gigs of GFX ram take up ALL the addresses. What a sham. Basically you don't want to conclusively show that the NVIDIA rigs are a waste of money.
I hate your slanted results.
Again another poor review..
Don't you think it is about time you put more work into these? You certainly won't fool anyone who knows what they are talking about.
Why moan about the CPU cooler without giving us any numbers - if it runs at a decent temperature then why put in water cooling which has many more parts that could go wrong?
Why is Crysis exceptionally run on 32-bit mode??? Your test setup states that you are running 64-bit everything. Of course 4870x2 in crossfire will be a pig in 32-bit os.the 4Gigs of GFX ram take up ALL the addresses. What a sham. Basically you don't want to conclusively show that the NVIDIA rigs are a waste of money.I hate your slanted results.
i don't know where you got the idea of 4 gigs gfx ram but there are only 3 gtx 280's with one gig of ram each ...
are you a ati geek or something ??? (excuse me if i insult you)
and i dunno but my rig has an asus striker II extreme mobo (based on the same nforce 790i ultra sli) and also 3 gtx 280 in sli and this thing kicks ass...
i do have to agree with david__t on the cpu cooler why moan about the cooler if it work ???
i just wouldnt trust a watercooling setup that i didn't build anyways...
I am refering to the line...
"With or without AA enabled, 3-way SLI is the way to go in this game on a 32-bit platform, and the MaxForce delivers. If you remember from the Gaming System Shootout, the Radeon’s reclaim the lead upon switching over to 64-bit mode."
I AM refering to the ATI beast that it is compared to. These are equipped with 2 4870x2's. My first comment stands. He mentions in words that the 4870x2's BEAT the tri-sli rig, but it shows a chart of the Geforce rig "beating" it in crysis.
He is using his editorial power to mislead readers into thinking that the Geforces can achieve better performance when they in fact do not on any sensible setup.
This is especially sneaky considering no mention of this is mad ein the test setup section which is ALL 64-bit setups.
but 4870x2's have 2gb each... so they have 4 gigs in total on a x-fire rig. So all the address space is taken up...
so its not a fair comparison....
You make my point for me.....