" Even so the X58A-UD9 offers USB 3.0 and SATA 6G Support. Your alternatives, namely the EVGA X58 4X SLI Classified (Now $300 after $100 MIR) and the EVGA SR-2 ($599) do not."
Wow. Who, if anyone, does fact checking here anymore?
The SR-2 has two sata 6Gb ports, and 2 USB 3.0 ports in...
Seriously, that is one embarrassing rant.
It has nothing to do with pixel count.
There's a reason non-standard FOV/AR are not allowed in most competitive game matches, and if the game maker decides such setups are undesirable and chooses to limit it, so be it.
Don't like it, don't buy...
Though I take slight issue with the framereates comments. Framerates *are* the point to gamers, in general, and particularly when using a product like PhysX takes bad framesrates (GRAW) to abysmal levels. And until there is evidence that this is, as Ageia and others claim, because of rendering...
I did not mean by analogy that Beta was an inferior technology, nor that the PhysX idea of using hardware to accelerate physics is lacking, just that PhysX is DOA in the same way the Beta was, the latter becuase of many factors including those you mentioned.
I still used an old pro beta deck...
Took a long look at this with graw with a buddy at a PC mag lab.
After the initial 'cool idea' wore off, I thought about the viability of this product (and company) in the long run. My conclusion: DOA, for all intents. This will go the same way as sound cards, only in the blink of an eye in...