Apparently nVidia hit a sweet spot with their 8 series cards. I honestly don't believe it's going to be easy for nVidia to duplicate the performance increase seen with the jump from 7 series to the 8 series.

Sometimes things need to be viewed from a different standpoint. The the gtx280 as a stand alone card itself is probably considered an "achievement" which is why it received a gold award. It is a single card which gives somewhat comparable performance to an SLI setupof 8 series cards, and the 9800gx2 which is basically the same thing, except in one slot. Price isn't taken into effect when the awards are given, apparently. It only reflects how much it costs to develop the card and bring it to the consumer. However, it is still a small step forward for nvidia, having a single card give the performance of two cards. That alone doesn't mean it should be released to the public, though.

Pure water will not conduct electricity. Water with who knows what's in it, will.

I wouldn't put straight water into a liquid cooling setup. It allows for the growth of bacteria, fungus, and will corrode your waterblocks. You wouldn't want to have to clean that up =]. However, ch5 is right though, this isn't the greatest board to come to for suggestions on liquid cooling.

I installed 64 bit with 4GB of RAM in and it didn't BSOD.GuitarFreak2

I did say that it may depend on what motherboard is being used. Here's the fix just to show that it does happen.

Well maxishine(an overly rich aussie who bought every high end hardware object known to mankind, only to find out he sucks at crysis) had 4 9800GX2 in SLi and he got 60 FPS all on Very High...Isbrealiompie

You can't put 4 9800's in a single system.

Problems I've seen in my experience with vista x64 are minimal. First one is the bug where you either get a BSOD during or after OS install if you have over 3gb of ram installed. If you make it through the install without BSOD, you WILL BSOD or freeze after windows starts up within a few minutes. There was a hotfix for it before SP1 was released, but you still have to take out a stick of ram if you're going to format. Unless you slipstream SP1 with Vista. The problem seems to be motherboard dependent though.

Quicktime and Vista - Black bar instead of quicktime player controls. The controls, timeline and volume still work, you just cant see it. Run in compatiblity mode for Windows XP and the issue goes away; but at the cost of disabling aero mode.

UAC - Doesn't cause "problems", just halts programs from accessing your computer until you give permission.

Administrator - Some programs either have to be run as administrator or compatibility mode for a different OS in order to function properly.

Mystery HDD activity - You may hear your hdd activity or see the activity light flashing when you're doing nothing to cause hdd activity.

Gaming - All games run just as they did on XP.

I'm not defending Microsoft here but it's not their job to ensure that everyones software or drivers work on their OS. It's a good thing if it does but... it doesn't. They've yet to release an x64 driver for their OWN fingerprint reader, though. Mine is just sitting on my desk, useless.

That is nuts, 3 9800 GTX or 4 9800 GX2 to play crysis max.

How will the new Nvidia Cards compare to this?

EDIT: How come 4 9800 GX2 did barely better then 3 9800 GTX, isnt a GX2 supposed to better? EVOLV3

It's not 4 9800 gx2's. It's 2 of them. Two 9800 gx2's = quad sli.