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| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
8800 GTS 320Mb cards are under $400AU. thats not too expensive. and they rock. |
still almost $350. Considering the fact that I can pick up 2Gb of top-knotch RAM for half that, it's not too high on my list of priorities. |
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| pkcRAISTLIN |
| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
still almost $350. Considering the fact that I can pick up 2Gb of top-knotch RAM for half that, it's not too high on my list of priorities. |
well, its always a trade off. but if we're talking shooters, and you already have ram, then a vid card is the best thing to get :) |
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| inconspicuous |
| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
well, its always a trade off. but if we're talking shooters, and you already have ram, then a vid card is the best thing to get :) |
you can never have enough ram
...unless you already have 4 gigs. i only have 2, though.
and $50 more will still buy you a console that'll be up-to-date for a good number of years (360). |
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i hope youre running vista if you want that 4 gig?
sure, you could buy a 360. or you could just improve the best gaming platform that ever was ;) |
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| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
i hope youre running vista if you want that 4 gig?
sure, you could buy a 360. or you could just improve the best gaming platform that ever was ;) |
no...but I could. :p
and I mentioned the 360, 'cuz you never have to upgrade it, 'til the next generation comes out, which won't be for 5 years or so. There's no way that any video card is still going to be sufficient in 5 years. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
no...but I could. :p |
yeah, but 4 gig is useless in XP. it can only utilise 2 apparently.
| quote: | Originally posted by inconspicuous
and I mentioned the 360, 'cuz you never have to upgrade it, 'til the next generation comes out, which won't be for 5 years or so. There's no way that any video card is still going to be sufficient in 5 years. |
well, maybe not the video card but anything else does. my last PC did 5 years of hard labour. the only thing i changed was the vid card, and only once. |
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| quote: | Originally posted by pkcRAISTLIN
yeah, but 4 gig is useless in XP. it can only utilise 2 apparently.
well, maybe not the video card but anything else does. my last PC did 5 years of hard labour. the only thing i changed was the vid card, and only once. |
well, there's no hard cap on ram in xp. the only problem is that the OS usually can't handle running all the apps that 4Gb of RAM can support. It can go over 2...not too much info on it, though, 'cuz most people don't even bother trying, so it's hard to get a real consensus. as to just how far it can go past that. |
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you'll be lucky to get vista to use 3.8G.
2 gigs seems to be the hotspot right now.
a good videocard is the key component in a game rig.
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