14 DAY TRIAL // The destined moment has arrived as NVIDIA launched its very first DirectX 11-capable graphics adapters and the entire Internet is booming with reviews and articles about the GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480. As expected, the reviews of the cards, and of the GTX 480 in particular, were mixed, but this doesn't change the fact that all of NVIDIA's partners and the various suppliers of gaming PCs are already hard at work integrating the products. Among them is CyberPower, which just revealed it is offering the cards as an option on three of its gaming systems.
The three gaming rigs that will soon have the advanced tessellation capabilities of NVIDIA's Fermi architecture are the Black Pearl, the Black Mamba Fang and the Gamer Xtreme 3D series. These three names come with the latest cutting-edge processing, memory and expansion capabilities. In fact, not long ago, CyberPower revealed that some of its systems were available with Intel's Core i7 980X Gulftown six-core central processing unit, namely the very same Black Mamba, Black Pearl and Gamer Xtreme 3D 3000. Enthusiasts will likely be filled with glee at the thought of a Gulftown-Fermi combination.
In addition to DirectX 11, CUDA, PhysX and 3D Vision Surround support, the NVIDIA GeForce GTX 470 and GTX 480 can be set up in three-way SLI configurations. Even in just a normal SLI setup, according to NVIDIA, performance actually increases by up to 90%, the highest performance improvement seen so far in a multi-GPU setup. To allow enthusiasts to see just what a three-way Fermi SLI can do, CyberPower is offering up to three identical GTX cards on each of its systems.
Unfortunately, since the cards themselves aren't really available yet, CyberPower PCs with Fermi will only start selling on April 7. Full information on all offerings may be found on the company's official website.