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  • 02-15-2008 11:02 AM

    Maingear Ephex 3-Way SLI Gaming System


    We’ve just posted a new article here at HotHardware in which we evaluate the design, build quality and performance of Maingear's Ephex high performance gaming system configured with 3-Way SLI technology from NVIDIA.  We were introduced to Maingear in the process of NVIDIA's 3-Way SLI launch, when NVIDIA had the company configure us a system to test and evaluate 3-Way SLI technology in general.  Obviously, NVIDIA felt Maingear's Ephex system build was high quality enough to send out to the press on behalf of their new 3-Way SLI technology.  So the question is, beyond 3-Way SLI, does Maingear's Ephex live up to customer expectations of a super high-end gaming system as whole?  That’s what we wanted to find out…

    Maingear Ephex 3-Way SLI Gaming System



  • 02-15-2008 12:57 PM In reply to

    Re: Maingear Ephex 3-Way SLI Gaming System

    That beastly rig is mighty impressive! If I had unlimited resources I'd buy 1 without thinking twice. It's kind of funny to me though that a monster like that can barely break 30 frames on Crysis set to very high @ 1680. In all honesty I think that says more about the game than the rig though and every aspect of that truly awesome gaming machine is drool material. With that being said, I can't wait till hardware that will be able to break 100 frames @ those settings becomes available!!!

    a cpu, a board, some ram, a gfx card, an opty, a hdd and a psu... all in a case

  • 02-15-2008 2:51 PM In reply to

    • jtm55
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    Re: Maingear Ephex 3-Way SLI Gaming System

     Hi All,

    Truly a very impressive system. Like Recovering I to would buy it no questions asked if I had it like the Fed.

    On another note though, Crytek, seems to develop Games that bring systems to their knees. If memory serves, when Farcry first came out it too was a system killer as well.

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  • 02-22-2008 5:03 PM In reply to

    Re: Maingear Ephex 3-Way SLI Gaming System

    Crossfire > SLI! ...lol. Regardless of my ranting, that is a beastly system. Man, it really sucks looking at all this beautiful hardware, than realizing I can't afford it and turning back to look on my 3.2 prescott rig...lol. But atleast being in a bad financial situation has made me stronger as a person and taugh me how bad wastefully spending money is =P. 

    2x Core 2 Quad QX9775 2Gb DDR2-667 Kingston FBDimm 150GB Western Digital Raptor 2x 500 Gb Seagate 7200.10 2x 8800 GT SLI Intel D5400XS (Skulltrail) Gigabyte 3D Aurora 570 Ultra X3 1KW psu 2X Liteon DL DVD-RW Rig courtesy of HotHardware! =D
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