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Gamers, Upgrade your Systems

Posted by michael on from the saving-money-for-beer dept.

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)."

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  1. Games? by Corrupt+System · · Score: 5, Funny

    I only upgrade my computer to increase benchmark scores.

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  2. The funny thing about this, by dlb · · Score: 5, Funny

    ..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.

  3. You know you're an F1 fan when... by DG · · Score: 5, Funny

    ...you see this screenshot:

    http://www.aceshardware.com/read.jsp?id=50000363 ...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.

    DG

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  4. Speaking of upgrades... by Glytch · · Score: 5, Funny

    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.