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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. Re:Gamecube? by Lawbeefaroni · · Score: 0, Troll

    You have the prices for the games reversed, dumbass.

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  2. Re:[OT]: Cheap DVI Video Card to drive HD Cinema D by phantumstranger · · Score: 0, Troll
    I'm going to kind go around your question here, sorry in advance. You asked for a video card for Linux suggestion and here's mine:

    STAY AWAY FROM nVIDIA!!!

    Next to no support (as in Docs / FAQs / HOWTOs / Pixie Dust) on their site and because the drivers are proprietary the best Linux has is generic drivers that never allow the card to reach it's full potential out of the box.

    Now, if going through the list to find the correct kernel driver and matching GLX driver doesn't bother you have at it, but an ATI card would probably be a better / easier bet.

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  3. Re:Uhhhhh by Rolo+Tomasi · · Score: 0, Troll
    Doubly Pro Logic, Doubly Digital

    It's called Dublin, stupid.

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  4. Fuck AMD by greymond · · Score: 1, Troll

    This might be a rant, but so be it....

    I'm tired of hearing all this hype and fud about AMD cpu's being great for games - thats BS

    My system is a P4 1.6ghz (pre-northwood) with 768mb PC133 SDRAM, and a gforce 2 mx400 64mb

    My Friend has the AMD 1800+ with 768mb PC 133 SDRAM, and a gfroce 2 mx400 64mb

    In short we have the exact same systems except for the cpu/motherboard (although both MBs are Soyo's) and yes we planned it that way because we network alot and its nice to have the same equipment if problems come up.

    Anyway no matter what game we play eg: CS, Diablo 2, NWN, Sims Online, Quake 3, Dungeon Siege, etc.... my system gets significantly better performance. Significantly = Same frame rates even tho i'm playing at 1280x1024 on a 19" monitor and he is playing at 1024x768 on a 17" monitor.

    Yes his system was cheeper (slightly) but being the impatient "gamer" that I am who also uses his machine to work on - I don't trade performance for price.

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