Gamers Drive High-End PC Market

TibbonZero writes "CNN reports that "Gamers drive souped-up PC market". They talk about the cost of high end computers, as well as their place in the PC Market. For some reason I thought it was playing solitaire that drove us to buy a Geforce 4 ti 4600..."

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Duh

[I_am_God_Here]

CNN reports that "Gamers drive souped-up PC market". Good job CNN.

Capt'n Obvious strikes again.

Re:GTA 3

[moonbender]

Shhhh! My parents think you need a high-end PC for studying computer science (hah!) and duly support me buying one, you're costing me real money here! ;)

Umm...

[drunkmonk]

Well, yeah. I will officially give up computing when I need a two gigahertz P4 and a $500 video card to do a Word mail-merge...

Taco has this filed under the right department

[Compulawyer]

... Right next to "oxygen is necessary to sustain human life" and "enough beer makes ugly people attractive."

In other news

[unformed]

CNN reports that street racers drive the market for souped-up stock cars and aftermarket performance boosters.

NEWS FLASH!

[Golias]

This just in, most of those who insist on graphics with high refresh rates and resolutions are running the most popular type of software that utilizes such technology.

In a related story, most people who buy ink-jet printers use them to create hard copies of their electronic documents.

Re:Tell us something we didn't know..

[BrookHarty]

Well, It is nice to be watching 10 porn videos, while ripping mp3s of the 70's porn style music, and chatting in #hotseattle on irc. Now Intel has released its 2.8ghz cpu, I can be even more productive!

gotta make sure I post this anonymously...

Newfangled gizmotronic gobbledygook

[IIRCAFAIKIANAL]

The specs on Kevin Atkison's latest computer could just as easily be for some newfangled street cruiser: Blue neon light tubes, Corsair XMS 3200 DDR memory and a GeForce 3 video card, all wrapped in a shiny aluminum Lian Li case with a clear plastic side window for easy viewing.

I guess my grandma is writing for CNN now...

Re:GTA 3

[crawling_chaos]

but I need to see contents in one window while im woking in another.

<HOMER>
Mmmmmm stir-fry...
</HOMER>

KDE 3 and Evolution drive the high-end PC Market!

[BigBlockMopar]

Shhhh! My parents think you need a high-end PC for studying computer science (hah!) and duly support me buying one, you're costing me real money here! ;)

Hey, I needed a Pentium IV at 2.0GHz just to be able to get KDE 3's file browser to display my MP3 directory in under a minute.

And if there were truth in advertising, it wouldn't be called Ximian Evolution. Instead, it would be called Ximian Continental Drift.

www.glowingplate.com/dissent

Re:Well.. Not Quite.

[PunchMonkey]

It's not just Id games. Check out The saga of CmdrTaco's quest to play Neverwinter Nights [slashdot.org] - he built the machine basically as a NWN kiosk, and had a lot of trouble doing it.

(I want to replace the case fans with those translucent 2-tone red/blue case fans that I saw at LinuxWorld

I was going to pick up NWN, but once I saw on the box that the "Optimal System Requirements" included a 2 tone case fan, I thought I'd hold off. I want maximum performance out of the games I buy.