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Easy Rhino · Mar 20, 2008, 12:42 AM

dx10 may not have lived up to the hype, but what does these days? dx10 is a clear improvement over dx9 in terms of IQ and textures. It does suck the FPS right out of my machine but that will change as it gets further developed.

System Name:	The Rhinoceros
Processor:	Intel i7 980x @ 3.5 ghz
Motherboard:	Gigabyte EX-58 Extreme
Cooling:	Swiftech Polaris 120
Memory:	6 x 4 GB Corsair Vengence @ 1333mhz
Video Card:	EVGA GTX 570 @ 800/2000
Hard Disk:	3x 320GB SATA Software RAID 5 + 4x 1TB SAS Hardware RAID 5 LSI 512mb
Optical Drive:	LG DVD-RW
CRT/LCD Model:	Samsung 2494 HM 24" 1920x1080
Case:	Lancool PC-K60
Sound Card:	Onboard
PSU:	Seasonic X Series 750 Watt Gold
Software:	CentOS 6.4 + libvirtd(CentOS 6.4,CentOS 6.4,OEL 6,OEL 6,Windows 7)

Mar 20, 2008, 12:42 AM	#13
Easy Rhino Linux Advocate Join Date: Nov 2006 Posts: 10,218 (4.30/day) Thanks: 1,206 Thanked 2,774 Times in 1,792 Posts System Specs	dx10 may not have lived up to the hype, but what does these days? dx10 is a clear improvement over dx9 in terms of IQ and textures. It does suck the FPS right out of my machine but that will change as it gets further developed.