Now I've a tonne of things have arrived but some have to go and some I might keep. Now there are 2 Agendas there I hopefully could address ASAP. Hopefully I can trade for some parts for a Bedside Endeavor. Well, this is all the excess stuff I got:
PART I: GETTING RID?
Parts that I have on hand. Plus an OCZ Vertex 2 that's not in the picture.
TOP: P8P67 Pro, P8P67 Deluxe which I might contemplate of switching out.
Parts I'm trying to get rid:
P8P67 Pro Motherboard
P8P67 Deluxe / P8P67M-Pro
Radeon 6850
With regards to the 6850, if you can see the images, you can see that it is quite filthy as I'm in a middle of cleaning it, but when it arrived this morning, it was a lot worse, as seen in this photograph when the seller released it. To the seller who sold it to me, I don't know how the heck this card was alive for who knows how long, but this was disgusting and I couldn't stand the amount of dust that was in it.
When it first arrived from the USA: Look how fucking filthy it is!!
And after spending a couple hours, check it out.
After cleaning, what a difference, really what a difference!
Parts I'm keeping in hand for the upcoming build:
OCZ Vertex 2 SSD 128GB
XFX Radeon 6950 PART II: Potential AMD Bedside Build
The reason why I'm keeping these parts as part of my agenda is that I want to build an AMD system intended to be used as a bedside computer. The current configuration is hooked up like so in the photograph:
Believe it or not, it's quite a bedside rig. And it's powered up by a single Laptop, that's none other than my Clevo W110ER / Aftershock X11 with a Core i7 3630QM, 8GB of RAM and a GT 650M Graphics. Now just in case you aren't caught up yet, I will be starting my Semester at LaSalle College of the Arts and chances are that the Laptop will be used as part of my school stuff so I won't probably use this further as a Bedside computer.
Now what I do need is a more permanent system to be used as a Bedside Rig, and needs to fit under my bed with a case that's no more than 8 Inches Tall with the case on its side. And meant to play games.
At this point, I really would love to have a rig that's powered by AMD Specifically. And I have 2 of the parts here; the Radeon 6950 (1 GB Version ) and the SSD. Now I have used Sandy Bridges and Ivy Bridges, and actually Intel CPUs as a whole. AMD CPUs and Motherboards, I... never really got a chance to play with it. So now what I need are:
CPU: Specifically Phenom II X4 / X6 Motherboard: Socket AM3 Motherboards that support Phenom IIs RAM: I might salvage 4 or 8 Gigs from my Main Machine. See how it goes Case: Nothing Wider or taller than 8 Inches when case is on its side. PSU: Enough Juice to support a Radeon 6950, the CPU and a couple of drives. Storage: Another Mechanical Drive.
So yeah, for now I need funds. If you guys have any thing you could contribute Money / Parts to my build, would appreciate if you just let me know.
1. Corsair HX-1000W Power Supply: Reliable and paid a small price.
My Zotac GTX 780 and the Corsair HX1000 1KW PSU
One of the biggest components in my computer. The size of the PSU only gets bested by the Newer AX1500i 1.5KW PSU also from Corsair. I got this 2nd hand, for just 110 SGD (About US 87 Bucks) from somebody on VR-Zone. I've been using this since August 2012. It came from another owner who used it for a further 3 years. It had a 5 year Warranty, and we didn't have to use it. It has outlived its warranty and I just checked the Voltages, it's still doing very well, alive and happy and not once has it failed me. This was like worth 320 bucks but I got it for 110 and it's trucking along nicely. It's bigger than an average Power Supply Unit which made me remove a bracket inside my Fractal Design Define R3 in order to accommodate its length. I didn't have to make any mods when I first used it in my ThermalTake SpaceCraft VF-I. Honestly speaking, for the configuration of a heavy overclocked i7 2600K with a Single GTX 780, this PSU I'm using, Overkill MUCH! I know the Corsair HX1000W has enough juice for 3 GTX 780s but my Motherboard only has room for two.
2. ZOTAC / NVidia GeForce GTX 780 AMP! Edition GPU Cheaper than a 780 Ti but performs like one This is the current graphics card in my system. And out of the components of my computer, apart from peripherals and the 2 4GB Black Corsair Vengeance RAM Modules which came from my old build, the GPU is the only thing that I got new. Performed much better and cooler than the Reference GTX 680 that I used to own. I'm gonna go all out on that GPU till I could buy a 2nd GTX 780. What's good about this GPU is the immense factory overclock that's already on it. With those clocks, and after testing, the GPU can already compete with a Reference GTX 780 Ti and downright defeats the Titan. Such as the 780 Ti isn't really worth the upgrade for 300 dollars more or even the Titan at 770-780 dollars more (That difference is already more than my 780!). The VRAM however may be low, 3GB of GDDR5, as I run a triple screen setup.
3. CLEVO W110ER / AFTERSHOCK X11 - Smallest Gaming Laptop in the World in 2012.
Clevo W110ER: A Small but very portable gaming laptop.
This is the Laptop that I'm currently using to replace the ASUS X42J that I used 3 years ago till it broke. Apart from my first Custom build (the I5 2500K Rig), I didn't have any portable system left when that happened. That time I was recovering from my Post Audition Trauma from Yong Siew Toh Conservatory of Music, then a lot of crap happened. Fate Intervened, I took part in a Lucky Draw and Aftershock was giving away a Laptop; the Aftershock X11. So I won it, then spent a bit of money on upgrades. I got an Core i7 3630QM over the i5 3210, I added an OS and swapped a 500GB Hard Drive for a 250GB Samsung 840 which was the first SSD that I had.
It's not the most powerful laptop, but the on-board nVidia GT 650M graphics and the upgrades I put in gave it practically the highest performance per square inch at the time of receiving it. It does have heating issues despite using IC Diamond Thermal Compound, but so far it operates like a champ. Ever since Elric Phares from Tech Of Tomorrow unboxed the AVA Direct's branding of that laptop, that laptop was in my mind till I finally won it. Since then, that Laptop has been a Godsend. Light and small, and it's currently in use as a Bedside Rig and a LAN party machine. It will be like this for the next couple months till I start school. From there it will be used actively as my school rig. Now if there was a replacement, I would go for the Aorus X3 that is more than twice the power with its GTX 870M Graphics but having the same portability.
Flagship Indeed, ready for today's needs
4. Samsung Galaxy Note 10.1 (2014 Edition) Samsung's Flagship tablet this year
This is truly my very first tablet that I got as a gift. Although I have used tablets in the past like the Apple IPad, they were never mine for me to own. We did have 2 Retina Apple IPads and Mum was supposed to give me one. However my brother bugged to keep it so I was the only one without a tablet. So when everybody else in the family except me got a tablet for far too long, come Christmas 2014, just before Midnight Mass, I received this as a gift. I've played quite a bunch of games and you've seen me doing some videos with it that I put up on YouTube as MusicHaven2012. And with the tablet, because I don't normally use my Laptop to game outside, when it comes to meetings, I favor the tablet to take down notes because for one, it's so light to carry around, and a tonne more portable. This is also just the right size to be used to read documents. It also had an insane battery life, with a capacity that's ironically larger than my laptop even. On idle, the tablet can last for many days at a time.
Now it's been almost 2 years since Diablo III came out and the highly anticipated Reaper Of Souls Expansion has been officially launched. LAUNCH DAY EXPERIENCE
Starting Act V. Just three Minutes after Launch hour.
That's how seamless the transition was.
Now unlike Diablo 3 Launch Day 2 years ago, there was a lot less hiccups in server-loads as soon as it went live. Also, the best part is, I was in-game when the announcement of the RoS Content finally went live. There was no downtime which is very nice though it'll be safer to logout and then log back in again IMO. Although re-logging back in was no way perfect with occasional error 3005s and 3006s, it was WAY (I mean way WAY) smoother and a less painful process as it took me about 4 minutes instead of like 2 freaking hours in Diablo III Launch to successfully get myself back in, transition to RoS and commence Act V pretty much right away. I actually expected a lot worse, but I guessed Blizzard has anticipated this and installed enough servers to accommodate with Launch Day. So Good one from your part Blizzard! So I join my regular group to conquer Act V.
PLAYERS: DarkNemesis - Myself (G2), CruXed (G2), Rocket (G2 and Synarchy - Singapore's Local Competitive Clan), Visco (Synarchy)
A Screenshot in 5760 x 1080 while receiving a Banner Award.
Using my Barbarian as usual.
FIRST LOOK - CAUTION SPOILERS!!!!
Act V takes place at the Fall of Westmarch after Tyrael seals all the Prime Evils within the Black Soulstone.
It was then taken by the corrupted Lord Malthael. Malthael was a former Archangel who disappeared after the destruction of the Worldstone during events of Diablo II: Lord of Destruction. As one of the Nephalem, your task is to trace the whereabouts of Malthael and his allies, destroy them, and reclaim the Black Soulstone from his grasp.
Diablo III Reaper of Souls adds some new content while trading that for the departure of the Auction House. This is a great point as it promotes farming the way it meant the game should be. And it boils down to luck. The most obvious is Act V. The game also unlocks the Level Cap to 70. Reaching that level will unlock the 4th Skill Point which you can use and only then will your characters start regaining Paragon Levels. And upon reaching a certain part of Act V unlocks a new NPC; the Mystic which is FREAKING useful. For a cost of Crafting Material, you can change one of that stat you don't want. Upon beating the Act V, the Adventure mode is unlocked where you can just pretty much go anywhere without changing acts to take on random bounties and rifts for random loot. These can be done at your own leisure and is a great way for earning Legendary Items and Experience. In fact in the post-game, Rifts are your primary means of levelling.
A Portrait of my Very First Crusader: GuardianZ
And of course the big one is the introduction of the Crusaders. This new hero class really resembles the Paladin from Diablo II in terms of appearance and his role in the game. He's a hybrid of a melee fighter, tank and a Holy Spellcaster who can don heavy armor and specialize in Sword and Board combat, or rather, Greatsword and Board Combat with a certain passive ability. At least now we have use for the 2-handers now!
A Cutscene Prologue of the Crusader.
Taken via my Aftershock X11
Other additions intended for Reaper of Souls have already been implemented in the Pre-RoS Patch. So if you've been playing throughout the last couple of weeks and this week, you'll know all this. But just a summary:
- New Paragon System - Limit is practically removed and the levels are spanned throughout all characters account wide. Every Paragon Level-up gives a point to spend on certain attributes available in your Paragon Layout. Any Character you have who has reached 70 (or 60 without RoS) can level Paragon Levels for all Characters.
- Item Quantity Drops reduced but proportionately boosted in quality. Yellow Rares need not be identified. Set and Legendaries you pick are account bound but most carry abilities that can potentially boost your builds. Legacy Items (Legendaries that you picked prior to this patch) are not account bound, but can't benefit from the new Mystic NPC.
- Cursed Chest and Shrine Events - Primary Objective mostly is to kill as much as you can within the time frame. Most of them however have a timed bonus event which rewards a Radiant Chest upon successful Bonus Objective met like killing 5 waves or a specific number of monsters.
- Difficulty Overhauls. Torment Difficulty (with Torment VI being the hardest difficulty currently in the game)
- Pools of Reflection - These Pools will boost the rate that you gain experience by 25% till you reach a certain amount. These promote more defensive play.
All these changes make the game having a large replay value. So you've always have something to do all the time.
MY IMPRESSIONS
The fact that I literally whacked through the game throughout the night last night and for 12 hours the day before with little sleep is a big testament on how much work that has been planned out by Blizzard to get it done the right way.
The difficulty of the monsters as you level from 60 to 70 gets harder dramatically with most of my level 60 gear pretty much become obsolete as you creep the levels in. But it's been loads of fun.
As for Crusaders, the class uses a combination of holy magic and Melee Combat. He carries a sword and shield. With a certain passive, he can wield two-handed weapons on his main hand and shield on the other. It makes him quite tanky. But a few complaints is that he is painfully slow in attack and damage isn't really promising. Although 2 handed-weapons are high damage, their slow attack speed severely hits.
However, that said, a new patch is upcoming, which practically increases damage of most abilities all across the board for all classes, most heavy is on the Crusader with the exception of Heaven's Fury Fires of Heaven Rune.
GAME REQUIREMENTS
The game requirements in general aren't high; as what you might expect when the game launched 2 years ago. For low details and resolutions, the game can run happy on just the HD 3000 graphics from Sandy Bridge line, but should have at least a Core i5 CPU to run at playable frame rates. Dual cores and below unless with Hyper Threading, won't be enough. HD 4000 Series and up will run it no problem. The higher up HD 4XXX series graphics can even crank it to Medium High Details at 1366 x 768. So as of now; most Integrated Intel Graphics Solutions from the Sandy Bridge line till now can at least run it without a problem in Low Settings.
Maxing out the game will require a bit more at 1920 x 1080. But as far as Dedicated Graphics Go, then the CPU requirement is less of an issue, even a Pentium Dual Core with a GTX 580 can pump 120+ Fps excess Maxed out. But as a desktop guideline, if you have a decent CPU, your minimum GPU requirement is at least a Radeon 6450.
The Iris Pro 5200 will simply breeze this through maxed at that resolution. However it is still playable on a DDR3 Radeon 6670 or even the older GeForce 8800 GT. So you can expect at least a GT 540 and above no worries. At 2560 x 1600, even the old GTX 550 Ti with its 192-bit bus and limited 1GB RAM, is still playable at max but recommend you just turn the settings down just a little bit. Anything higher than a Radeon 6770 and a 7770 is pretty much overkill unless running 3 Monitors surround via Windowed Fullscreen mode. For me I run my games in a 3 Monitor Setup; and even that resolution of 5760 x 1080 is merely calling for more in my GTX 780. And here's a video of someone actually running this at a whopping 7680 x 1440 in Eyefinity, that's a full 11-Megapixels compared to my 6.22, that's like nearly 78% more pixels to fill!
BOTTOMLINE:
Diablo III Reaper of Souls offers a Hugely expanded amount of playtime. But be prepared of some mechanics that may put you off slightly. Game requirements are nice and easy, even an entry level gaming system or a high end gaming system that's over 6 years old can still run it.
When the first Hawaii GPU R9 290X came out, it was good but a Hot Hawaii. And I said it before that with a good cooler, taking heat out of the equation totally will make cards like that run stable.
AMD has responded with this solution for the Dual GPU.
Meet the Video Card that claims to do just that: The Radeon R9 295X2.
I wasn't expecting AMD to come up with a Dual GPU Solution this quickly. And AMD crafted a Dual GPU being cooled by both Air and Water powered by Asetek's line of AIOs.
This idea of hybrid cooling is not unique. Not long ago, ASUS introduced the Tahiti Based ARES II that consists of 2 7970 GHz Ed. GPUs in CES 2013. It was however a large card in terms of width despite being a 2 slot card so it won't fit in narrower chassis. It was limited to a set number of cards as you might expect from most flagship ROG goods. And EXTREMELY power hungry; with 3 8-pins as opposing to 2 for the 295X2.
As you can probably notice, the card fits in line within most narrower chassis and cases and has a slightly larger center fan.
Tom's Hardware and Guru 3D have tested this card. Heat is entirely out of the equation so throttling problems should be practically non-existent. As you would expect, this card will not be for the meek of wallet and outlets in Singapore are not selling it yet (as far as I know). Users will be happy that this dual GPU Card will work especially well for a small form factor build (Below), just need to make some room for the rad. An mATX build will be the sweet spot for a less cramped build.
Now just earlier this month, nVidia has released a new GPU Architecture in the form of Maxwell that currently resides in the GTX 750 Ti and the GTX 750. Now these new graphics cards bring a lot of new Changes to the table, offering decent performance while dramatically cutting power needed. The new cards arrive with a small TDP of 60 Watts, with then GTX 750 Ti performing close to a GTX 660 without having the need of an external 6-Pin Connector. Without the need of the 6-Pins allows PCs with a small Power Supply all the way down to 300Watts or less to power them. As you can see by the image, the OEM card is pretty small, enough for a small form build.
Only pity is that it doesn't have an SLI connector which would have turned this into quite a system that needs only 400W+ of power from your PSU and performs close to a GTX 770.
The OEM Reference GTX 750Ti is pretty damn small. But truth be told: the card performs well beyond its weight.
With Maxwell releasing in the Desktop GPUs also comes the release of the GTX 800M Series for the Mobile GPUs. Now it has been confirmed that the GTX 850M and the GTX 860M will use the Architecture based on the GM107 while the 870M and the 880M flagship will retain the Kepler GK 104. We will focus abit more on the GTX 860M since it's the more powerful of the Maxwells.
GTX 860M
This is the more powerful of the Maxwell Mobile Duets. From its Specs, the GTX 860M is essentially a GTX 750 Ti in a nutshell. It's meant to be replace the GTX 760M. Interesting enough that the 860M has an ever-so-slightly better base clocks and lower Memory clocks but you know that the Desktop SKUs can always overclock to have any performance benefits. But aside from that, everything between the 2 GPUs are the same, and performs very similarly toward each other.
More information of the GTX 860M can be found here:
There is however, the Kepler GK104 Version of the GTX 860M, that resembles very similarly to the Desktop GTX 660 OEM and GTX 760 but with lower clocks and runs on a 128-bit bus. That bus width however could be a limiting factor in larger resolutions which is the reason the Maxwell Version carries a large L2 Cache Memory of 2MB. This allows the card to run without much performance hit as compared to a card wth a 192-bit bus.
It's quite surprising from some benchmarks that with a TDP of 50-60 Watts compared to the GTX 760M with it being about the same or maybe lower, it performs slightly better than the GTX 770M which has significantly more TDP at 75W and a higher bus width and obviously well above the GTX 760M; the GPU it intends to replace.
The Clevo W230ST has received this update and married the GTX 860M to its hood while replacing the GTX 765M. The already light 13.3" Laptop has gone significantly better with more performance per square inches it has in its hood. With Battefield 4 able to run close to maximum settings and even the latest Titanfall at maximum settings, you can essentially plug in a large HD Monitor and enjoy the benefits from the Maxwell Architecture. You can vouch by the benchmarks because notebookcheck records the benchmark scores from a Schenker XMG P304 which is ANOTHER rename of the very same laptop.
And I received word from my local custom notebook shop Aftershock PC that their XG13 which is the rename of the W230SS has released the update for sale.
As with most of Aftershock's Line of Clevo Notebooks, Most components can be chosen to the user's needs. Almost everything save the GPU (in some notebooks except the X15 and X17 and Titan) can be switched.
So this may be a great time to snag those laptops!
Well I thought about it this morning and I feel just like writing this today after experiences with using a standard OC GTX 780 across NVidia Surround.
Alright, to those who hasn't really caught up with the subject of PC Hardware and Gizmos, just a refresher to what the GTX 780 has. And today's subject I want to write is Video Memory.
The card has 3GB of GDDR5 Memory on a 384-bit bus. Now those who game on a single screen like 1920 x 1080 and 2560 x 1440 may feel like 3GB of Video Ram is enough for a resolution. And yup, I do agree. Crank the resolutions to nVidia Surround and Eyefinity or go a 33% more to 4K Resolutions, 3GB I feel is definitely not enough. So nVidia: I would love and REALLY want you guys to release 6GB versions of the cards.
I've seen 6GB Cards but these are only from the Titans and the newly released Titan Blacks. 6GB is ideal on such high resolutions where you need it more for textures. But these are too expensive owing to the fact they concentrate more on CUDA Developers which require Double Precision Power which we DON'T need in a gaming scenario. AMD has opted for a good 4GB of VRAM on the R9 290 and R9 290X. Even though at smaller resolutions, these cards aren't as powerful as the GTX 780 Ti in terms of performance, the moment you go Surround or 4K, the differences become very close together. It may just be 1 Gig difference but that can mean a lot. It'll be so nice to have that amount of memory.
The Titans are not the first cards I see with 6GB of memory, Sapphire has actually managed to cramp 6GB of VRAM in their Toxic Editions of the Last Generation 7970 GHz Edition GPUs. That extra 3GB of frame buffer tested by Elric Phares back in his Motherboards.org days really helps a lot even though the card is now like 2 years old. It can still compete well as an OC R9 280X and perhaps a little more so with that additional Memory. And it's ironic that we actually see 4GB of VRAM on the Mobile GTX 780M on a GK 104 at 1920 x 1080, and we don't get to see more than 3GB of VRAM in a desktop non-double precision GK 110 that sees increasingly being used at 5760 x 1080 and Hardware enthusiasts are gonna need more than that. 5760 x 1080 is more common than 4K and it's still pretty damn demanding on VRAM despite being just three-quarters of a 4K here.
I really do hope nVidia comes up with a 6GB version of the card. Or 4GB and above at the very least...
General Gameplay
Okay! I get to try out a bit of Elder Scrolls Online (ESO for short). So I just decided to screw around a little bit. Test Rigs: Desktop
Core i7 2600K OC 4.5GHz
Corsair H70
Corsair HX1000
GTX 780 GHz (Zotac GTX 780 AMP! Edition Card)
16GB RAM
Testing in 1920 x 1080 and 5760 x 1080.
Laptop - Clevo W110ER Aftershock X11 - for Image Comparison
Core i7 3630QM
GT 650M
8GB RAM
Testing in 1366 x 768 and 1920 x 1080
Now hardware requirements aren't particularly demanding, seeing that game engine in Skyrim looks very similar to ESO's. So theoretically, most mid-range hardware can run this hardware on pretty decent settings. My laptop is starting to show signs of being obsolete with the Clevo W230ST fulfilling the new role. Still the last generation smallest gaming laptop holds its own well and can handle the game within its native settings at 1366 x 768 at Full maximum quite fluently. Frame rates will vary depending on the location, whether indoors or out, big or small battles. But more primarily location as it seems to be. Big areas with lot of combat will drop frames to around 20. But it's not spiking too much so it's still somewhat fluent. To me these MMOs are perfectly acceptable at 25-28 fps. It would be best to turn off AA but oddly doesn't really improve performance all that much.
As of the update 5th-April-2014: Tom's Hardware have released their performance review of ESO. It also concurred that something as low end as an AMD R7 240 can handle at Medium at 1280 x 720 and up to the GTX 650 at 1920 x 1080. And then Notebookcheck has published their benchmark reviews on notebook GPUs required to play ESO. Links follow:
Here's the screen quality as you tweak the settings:
1366 x 768 - Low Preset, AA is off by Default
1366 x 768 - Medium Preset, Big difference, big difference. A GT 650M can handle this no problems.
1366 x 768 on High: Now Anti Aliasing turns on by default.
1366 x 768: Maximum Settings, it's still playable on a GT 650M,
with stutters every now and again.
As I've already tested with 5760 x 1080, the game runs no problem in Surround on a single GTX 780. Running in excess of 60 fps with Surround completely maxed out means that running on a single 1920 x 1080 should be quite overkill. And the GTX 780 Ti that Tom's Hardware used in their reviews performs pretty much where it should be; seeing my Zotac GTX 780 is already heavily overclocked to perform around this performance. Frame rates will start to cap at around the 100 mark. You can even get away with the HD 4600 Graphics at Medium Settings at 1366 x 768.
CPU PERFORMANCE
It seems in general that Intel leads the Battle as shown in Tom's Hardware, with even the low end Dual-Core Quad Threaded Core i3-3220 slightly edging out the former FX 8XXX Flagship 8350 that. The performance hit becomes more obvious to the APUs. For that one Notebookcheck used a GTX 680 to completely remove the GPU limitation, and becomes quite a CPU Bottleneck.
PROBLEMS
There are 2 problems with 5760 x 1080 which is this:
Yeah, the dialogue screen is bloated. It wasn't like this when I tested on a single screen: that case was the Laptop. And if you have surround setup, it's near impossible to get 1920 x 1080 to work properly and get it on a single screen. What reducing to 1920 x 1080 does is reducing the pixel density across the screens. Skyrim had these problems when I tried playing at 5760 x 1080 when it comes to bloated UI and I'm surprised that this problem still exists in ESO but albeit when switching between 5760 x 1080 and 1920 x 1080. So I hope Bethesda gets that patched up soon. So to compare I had to screenshot a window mode at 1920 x 1080. For now, there is no easy way to swap between 1920 x 1080 and 5760 x 1080 except turning off / on nVidia Surround completely when changing resolutions.
Speaking of 1920 x 1080, here's some comparing 16:9 1920 x 1080 to 48:9 surround 5760 x 1080.
1920 x 1080 - 16:9
5760 x 1080 - 48:9 Surround
1920 x 1080 - 16:9
5760 x 1080 - 48:9 Surround
Another optimization problem that Tom's Hardware found is that this game hasn't been optimized for Dual GPU cards quite yet. I would have done that but I don't have any Dual GPUs in my store. From their 5760 x 1080 Benchmark at full max, the Radeon 7990 and the GTX 690 seems to struggle quite a lot and its frame pacing shows. General
One thing I seem to discover that loading times shrunk dramatically and the game responses a bit better when this game is installed on a SSD, which is also evident on Diablo III.
Aside from the display flaws, the game looks absolutely fantastic, especially once you get to the great outdoors. Even with Mid-ranged hardware on a single screen, the visuals are respectable. How you play this game is very similar to Skyrim. Now here's some shots all in nVidia Surround.
