The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy

SlappingOysters writes "Gameplayer has gone live with their best PC hardware configurations for Q3 2008. They've broken it into three tiers depending on the investor's budget. And while the prices are regional, it is comparative across the globe. 'In order to play these slices of gaming goodness, you're going to need a decent rig, and we sent our PC hardware guru in search of maximum frames in maximum detail, but at a minimum cost. We have three tiers for the three levels of PC gamers out there and all the detail you could possibly want on where, why and what to buy. So choose your poison and get amongst it.'"

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Re:luv 2 brag

[jabithew]

You could say the same about Linux, especially if you have an ati card, or have the audacity to try a 64bit distro.

*patiently awaits troll mods for criticising linux*

Re:The investor's budget?

[gobbo]

Mac OSX is useless for multitasking, the global menu bar alone means that you can realistically only work on one app at a time.

What a strange comment! Switching apps is command-tab, and background tasks are usually well managed. The mac users I support usually have many apps open at once; the windows users tend to close applications to switch.

Plus its a pain to resize windows and I am yet to see a "tile windows Horizontally/Vertically" function like you get in windows (this is a great help when taking info from one program into another or when reading response messages in real-time as you make changes). lack of a task bar means I cant tell what programs I have open and if any of them require my attention (under Windows the task bar item flashes), under Mac OSX I need to alt tab or do that F11 thing to figure out what's open which takes my full attention away from what I am doing.

This just points out that you haven't learnt the basics of Mac OS. One keystroke to reveal all windows, or all windows in current app, or the desktop; the dock takes care of tracking running apps and notifications. If you haven't done the basics, you lack credibility. While I like Windows' resizing from any side, I constantly regret the lack of intelligent zooming or snap-to-content.

Mac OS X displays everything in icons with no text,

That's a troll, because it's false.

Most of the rest of your comments are inaccurate or inexperienced, as well, including the following:

If you have trouble doing that on windows I suggest you unplug your computer and return it to the store, IT is not for you. on a screen that size managing windows will be easy, its when you are working on a 19" is where it gets difficult (except when using multiple desktops, see the Linux point above). Every time I use OS X I get the impression it was never designed for anyone to do more than one thing at a time.

If you've ever tried to use a multi-windowed app like Premiere in Windows, and span multiple monitors, then you'll know that it is just hair-pullingly agonizing compared to similar apps on a Mac. It just doesn't work well on so many levels.

With many ways to switch and manage apps and windows, the paradigm of interleaved windows, and easy management of multiple monitors of various sizes, multitasking is as easy as linux, or better, and far better than windows. While there are many things that bug me about the Mac OS, including the Finder and the Dock, general multitasking is not one of them.