@scottalanmiller 4 out of 5 Bill Kindle's.

@scottalanmiller Wii U is fantastic if you like Nintendo's games.

Moral of the Story: God is an LED.

I'm not a console person, but thank heavens you got a PS4 over a Xbox One.

@scottalanmiller So, gaming rig, huh? Alright. What's your budget, do you want to stick to certain manufacturers, what kind of resolution do you want to push, and do you want the rig to hold to a color scheme or theme? I can whip you up a list of parts in a pretty quick time frame if you drop me those bits of info. Also, I would suggest the aforementioned VirtualBox, or just spending more money if you want to support even just 1 VM.

@scottalanmiller The thing about the Surface Pro 3 though, is that it has enough Hardware muscle to effectively run a VM. Works very well, actually.

VM's. But you can effectively make it look like the VM built OS is the actual OS it's running on.

Also, you can make the Surface Pro 3 run (Although not officially condoned) Mac OS, Android, and iOS.

500th Post, wooooooo!

@alexntg Aye, the one I'm buying will, hence the 120 FPS.

@JaredBusch Well, as referring to the Film industry as media I mean.

Let me know when teenagers start singing Leo Delibes or even know who that is, and I'll be impressed with media

So I've been toying with the idea of 2-Way SLI with GTX 780 TI's for quite a while now, but have been looking around alot, and it seems that doing a 3-Way SLI wih GTX 780's may drive marginally better performace for only $100 more. Anyone have any ideas or suggestions on what should be used in this situation? 120 FPS on ultra at 2560 x 1440 is a must, so tell me what I should buy

@scottalanmiller That got scary fast. Double the physical size??? I have to say looking at pictures doesn't do it justice, the Shield is HUGE for a mobile device, comparable to the Gamecube just a little shorter, and weighs as much as the Surface Pro 2. Double the physical size would just make it a Steam Box, and not a mobile Console, lol.

@scottalanmiller said:

@Mike-Ralston said:

@scottalanmiller Well unless they plan to work miracles as far as battery and size... That very well may cut the sales a very large margin, just due to the things that local processing entails.

Not as much of a miracle as you think. Low power procs today are pretty amazing. Just look at the Shield.

The Shield can run the Source engine is smaller instances. The RAM is the only big limitation for that, it can't put textures in for large areas.

@scottalanmiller Hmm. Well, I'll buy one probably regardless of the design philosophy, if they can promise I'll be playing Left 4 Dead with no hiccups. If it got support for the entire Steam library, even if it had to run on lowest settings at 720P, the prospect itself is enough to make me smile

@scottalanmiller Well unless they plan to work miracles as far as battery and size... That very well may cut the sales a very large margin, just due to the things that local processing entails.

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@Mike-Ralston said:

Also, same logic that the Nvidia Shield has. It's just a streaming device.

You were touting the massive power of the Shield in another thread for keeping pace with average PC gaming power.

The Shield is ARM but has access to the massive Android gaming catalogue and has powerful GPU support.

Well as the "average" PC statistically is a sad little thing with 4 or less GB of RAM, no Discrete GPU, and a processor not really capable of high speed processing for more than word documents... The Shield is a pretty beefy handheld. But the size of it almost defeats the point. It's an awesome toy, but even from a gaming perspective, it isn't very usable to the average person who wants a mobile console. For a Steam Handheld Console, streaming would be necessary to have a full gaming experience, but being able to run a ton of processing on it's own would just increase the cost, limit the usability scenarios, and just overall change the product from a Mobile Game System, to another Nvidia Shield: A cool gadget with no real purpose. But, having experience with the Shield, and having used Nvidia's Grid service to stream games from across the country (the current server I use is in Florida, and I get around 10 MS or less of lag on a good Wi-Fi connection), a similar service could be implemented by Valve, and the gaming experience on the go would be Console Grade. An amazing prospect that I will keep up with, but there are so many huge pitfalls that Valve may fall into... But, they tend not to disappoint, so let's see where this goes.

Also, same logic that the Nvidia Shield has. It's just a streaming device.

9999999999999999999999/10 would buy.