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Graphics Memory Sizes Compared: How Much Is Enough?
EconolineCrush writes "Trying to decide between whether or not to get a 64MB graphics card, or spring for that 128MB version? Hit up this article, which explores the performance of ATI and NVIDIA-based cards with 64 and 128MB of memory, before swiping your credit card. Not so long ago 32MB was the top end for graphics memory on consumer video cards, but now even budget cards are available with 128MB. 128MB might seem excessive now, but a year from now 64MB cards might just be obsolete."
a year from now 64MB cards might just be obsolete
Bah. Next thing you'll be trying to tell me my Voodoo 3 2000 PCI is obsolete!
Wow, can you say "conditioned by years of exposure to marketing"? More more more, people! Nevermind what it does or why!
Maybe with enough RAM, processor speed and plasma displays I could create a $50,000 virtual reality room where winamp visuals would rival a $3.00 hit of LSD.
Wouldn't that be cool. You could make your freakin trip end when you needed it to. Game Over Man. Legal too.
Nice work Beavis :), you just upped the US's trade deficit as hundreds of overclockers destroy their motherboards attempting to solder in their RAM modules.
No doubt you'll be receiving an extra bonus from the Taiwanese motherboard manufacturers this month. Of course I suppose that assumes they're able to recognize solder drips and scorch marks as good reasons to assume the board was not received DOA...
(Yes, I realize there are overclockers all over the world -- I apologize in advance for my horribly US-centric post... geez...)
You don't. The article is not meant for you. Move along.
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I'm not upgrading to 128 megs until it's required by Snood. So there!
Don't invest in tomorrow's technology today at a premium, when you can get it tomorrow at a discount. That's why smart buyers invest in modular components. When your hardware gets outdated, pluck and chuck.
No! No! No!
Please DO invest today in the top-end graphics cards! Spend two to three hundred $ buying the best cards on the market! (Or more!)
You see, unlike the parent poster, I think this is a positively brilliant plan for each and every one of you in the high-end gaming crowd!
Look at the benefits: State of the art technology, frame rates so fast that subliminal advertising is practical, bitBLTs that could move your entire DNA encoding in one transfer, and colour depth that makes the games so close to real life you never have to leave your chaise-lounge and encounter the real world!
And as a nice bonus for those of us in the category of the less driven to best-of-the-best-damn-the-cost, there is this:
As all of the high end gamers drive the market up, some really decent hardware becomes really cost-effective and affordable for the rest of us!
So yes, Please Please Please DO buy the BEST and Most Expensive! Drive the market as hard as it can be driven! The mild and meek will quietly thank you and buy really nice (but obviously outdated) products for a bargain basement price!
Ooops.... forgot to tag the whole post <SARCASM>
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