Consoles at E3

At E3 this year many console news was released. Each console released some information about the upcoming year.
Nintendo released some upcoming games including grand theft auto: chinatown wars, animal crossing: city folk, and wii sports: resort.  Not much else  other then a new attachment that allows for even more precision out of the wii remote.
Microsoft’s big release was that all xbox 360 owners will have access to netflix through their xbox 360’s. This is kind of disappointing to me though. If their biggest thing to release is movies then i need to get another console. There are not too many games (or at least good ones) that i I am looking forward to.
Sony’s playstation 3 is the new best console in my opinion. With a line of great new games coming out out in the next year and the support of blu-ray on their system, the PS3 is the next big console.

XFX and EVGA Reimbursements

Today (I know im kinda late on getting this out) I’m gonna talk about the evga/xfx reimbursement program. I think the reimbursement program is pretty funny actually. Its kinda when apples iphone came out. They were expecting more people to go and buy it and when they didn’t reach the numbers they wanted BAM! they cut all the prices by $100. I think the same thing happened with xfx and evga. No one but the massive budgets of maxishine or trubritar could afford 1 not to mention 3 of these things.

But I must say this shows the quality of xfx and evga products. Cus see every company made these same cuts but only xfx and evga were nice enough to their customers to make a reimbursement program. I personally will stick with these companies for a very long time due to their amazing customer satisfaction.

X58

    Ive been hearing a lot about the new X58 chipset coming out. But the big question is crossfire or sli? Both says the blog http://razetheworld.com/blog/?p=102. This would be the smartest move by intel considering the race for gpu’s is extremely close. ATI is making a comeback with their new 4870 cards with a starting price of $300. I believe this is making the people over at nVidia a little uneasy about how loyal their customers are. They seem to have scraped by with their 280 cards and the outrageous starting price of them just because of the sheer loyalty of the nVidia customers with huge budgets. If the X58 were to have this feature it would add an amazing amount of freedom with, in my opinion, hardest component to buy in a pc. 

    There will be a downside to this fantastic technology… the bill. It is obvious that the crossfire X58 boards will be available first. If you were to pick up one of these you also need to pick up a new processor and some new DDR3 memory. This begins to add up against you. Not to mention that when they do add sli it will probably cost around $100 more to add the new chipset. Only those who have nearly unlimited budgets will be able to pay the bill.

   If intel were to make the X58 stable, well priced along with the sli/crossfire configuration it should be one of the top enthusiast choices.

ATI vs. nVidia GPU’s

First real post ever!!! Alright words been going around that nVidia is going through some major financial issues…. hence the outrageous price of the gtx280. ATI in my opinion has taken the lead in graphics cards. Their new 4870 is only a few frames per second off from the 280 and still has really immature drivers. Not too mention the fact that the 4870 is only $300! nVidia better be coming out with some pretty kickass drivers in order to compete with the soon to be 4870X2 which will have a cheaper opening price then the POS called the 280. If I were building a new system right now I would be going ATI all the way! Screw the 280 the 4870X2 is sure to be the fastest commercial (you never know what the governments hiding) gpu we’ve ever seen! ATI has brought the competition to a whole new level.

Check out my new post on ATI and nvidia and feel free to comment

-Hunterx333

Purpose

This is my first post on this blog… The purpose of this is to compare computer hardware and companies and give my opinions about certain computer components.