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Gamers, Upgrade your Systems
jbischof writes "Looking to upgrade your aging PC? Ace's Hardware has a new upgrade guide tailored specifically to gamers. The data shows exactly which upgrades - processor, motherboard, gfx card, or combination of the three - will give the best performance boost on all the latest and most popular games (according to their recent poll)."
But with my mac all I have to do is throw it away and buy a new one! No kit for me! ;)
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Cool now I know which order to get the components of my CowboyNeal(tm) doll updated!
I only upgrade my computer to increase benchmark scores.
The solution that has worked best for me...is to avoid public discussion. -- CmdrTaco
I can't help but question why they entireley jipped Linux from this gaming feature.
Theres more to gaming than just Windows-only games like Couterstrike or Quake III.
Many Linux people enjoy the same kind of fun on their platforms. Railroad Tycoon II and Quake II work just fine, thanks.
Linux can do eveything these days, it's not 1991 anymore. Its full fledged and can play games and use Office documents. What are you waiting for to change.
Reply or e-mail; don't vaguely moderate. Ex-O'Reilly/MIT employee, now a full-time Google employee.
..is that the guys who are willing to drop a metric buttload of coin for upgrading their gaming computer, are probably the same ones who were bitching about the $20 download of x86 Solaris.
Ah, I thought that read Ace hardware. That's where I get all my upgrades.
Could I interest anyone in some toast?
...you see this screenshot:
3 ...and know not only what track you're on, but that the car is in a position (in the braking area leading up to the chicane, on the wrong side of the track, with a couple of degrees of steering lock in the wrong direction) to crash in the next heartbeat.
http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=5000036
DG
Want to learn about race cars? Read my Book
New motherboard: CAN$119.
Athlon 2100+: CAN$206.
512MB RAM: CAN$115.
Realizing you have no cash left to replace your 16MB NVidia TNT2: Priceless.
Video Card Upgrade:
We upgrade the Geforce 2 Ti 200 to more trendy video cards, such as the Geforce 4 MX 440, Geforce 4 Ti 4200/4600 and Radeon 9700 Pro (Tyan Tachyon G9700). We also check with a Geforce 3 Ti 200 and Radeon 8500, as both videoards featured an excellent price/performance ratio and have been very popular.
Aww, come on. You mean to tell me you don't buy parts based on how "trendy" they are?
"When it rains, it pours." --Morton's Salt
tetris is what i play,
and with 1.2 GHz AMD Athlon, 512 MBRam and ATI A-I-W Ultra Pro AGP 32 MB RAM , it kicks some butt.
I play tetris in Vim, in xemacs, so there
for the last time people, I am "frodo from middle eaRTH", not "middle eaST".
What components should I get to maximize Photoshop and such?
Just click that widget in the upper left corner, dude. You don't need any tools or "components" for that.
Any sites that offer such advice?
Ok, you're insisting:
HOWTO: Maximize Button
Beware: In C++, your friends can see your privates!
WHy did this come out the DAY AFTER i blow 150 bucks on a video card? I mean, im happy with it and all, but the comparison would have been nice. ;)
All Troll + "offtopic" mods are meta moderated as "Unfair", because you abused the system.
DVD-R - Lite On 16x DVD, 48x CD-ROM 34.50
(snip)
Course these prices are a couple days old.
I had no idea DVD-R prices were that volatile.
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DRM is like antifreeze, to the MPAA/RIAA it's sweet, to the consumers it's poison.
All you have to do is release the cheat bots as Linux only, and you will see everyone shift to linux. :)
Yeah sure, you always have 97% rail accuracy...
Switch monitors and try again.
Schwab
Editor, A1-AAA AmeriCaptions