SLI Rig of the Month

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Full Name: Jay Venturi
Gaming Handle: Morte
Country: USA
City and State or Province: Chesapeake, Virginia

For some guys, running two GeForce 6 series cards together in SLI mode isn't enough firepower. Jay Venturi of Chesapeak, Virginia decided to up the ante on his custom Lian Li case, using two 512 MB NVIDIA Quadro workstation cards to create a monster of a machine. To ensure that he has enough power to pump all that rendering data through his dual GPUs, Jay linked together two 600W power supplies! What does this produce? How about running Doom 3 benchmarks at over 140 FPS at 1600x1200 resolution, with 4X AA? If 512 MB of RAM for each graphics card wasn't enough, Jay caps it off with an additional 16 (yes, sixteen) GB of ECC memory plugged into his motherboard. All this hardware, paired with his Dual Opteron CPUs, Jay is leaving little doubt that his PC is of the best and fastest out there!

Here are some of the specs on Jay's machine:
(2) SLI 4400 fx Quadros 512 mb each
Tyan S2895 dual opti board
(2) Dual Opteron 252 step E 90nm
16GB RAM (ECC)
1.6 Terabytes of RAID Storage (4) 400GB SATA-2 Drives
Logitech Laser mouse
Dual Layer Burner
Zelman Cooling Al-Cu
Lian Li VP2000 case
Dual 600watt power supplies (linked)
Samsung 24 inch LCD 1900x1200
Windows Enterprise Server 2003 64 bit and 32 bit

Scores:

X2 The Threat benchmark
All eye candy
1600x1200
specular, auto-detail, etc
101.601 FPS

Doom3
4x AA, ultra setting, 1600x1200
~Timedemo Demo1 usecache
141.5 FPS

Painikiller 1.62
All eye candy maxed, 1600x1200
~benchmark C5L1 212.64FPS
~benchmark C5L2 155.10 FPS

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	March 2005


		Have you created your own smoking-fast SLI system? Have you pimped it out with the latest mods? Is EVERYTHING in your machine UV-reactive? Do you have seventeen 120mm fans adorning your dual-GPU benchmark-shattering monster of a machine? Do you have what it takes to make the "SLI Rig of the Month? " Find out – submit your machine for a chance to win glory (and get featured on NVIDIA’s web site!). To submit your SLI rig for consideration, send an email to us with the information below. You MUST have the phrase "SLI Rig of the Month" in the subject line of your email. Emails without this will not be considered. In your submission email, please include: Full Name Gaming Handle Country City and State or province Motherboard type and brand ("ASUS A8N Deluxe," for example) Graphics card type and brand ("XFX GeForce 6800 Ultras," for example) Photos of your machine! You must include photos of your machine (at least ONE with you and the machine together, as well as one benchmark screen shot – PLEASE USE ONLY ".JPG" FILES, AND DO NOT SEND ".ZIP" FILES). Please limit your total photo attachments to 9 MB or less in your email. While you may also write a short description of your machine, and what you’ve done to it to make it stand above the rest, please keep it less than 150 words.* Submit your rig today! NVIDIA reserves the right not to consider entries with over 150 words (keep in mind we have to read everyone’s* submission, and we have to be fair). By submitting your machine for candidacy in the SLI Rig of the Month, you grant NVIDIA the right to use its image and yours for promotional purposes. Please write your email in English – we reserve the right not to consider entries not submitted in English.