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A $99 Graphics Card Might Be All You Need
Vigile writes "With the release of AMD's latest budget graphics card, the Radeon HD 4770, the GPU giant is bringing a lot of technology to the table. The card sports the world's first 40nm GPU (beating out CPUs to a new process technology for the first time), GDDR5 memory, and 640 stream processors, all for under $100. What is even more interesting is that as PC gaming has evolved it appears that a $99 graphics card is all you really need to play the latest PC titles — as long as you are comfortable with a resolution of 1920x1200 or below. Since so few PC gamers have screens larger than that, could the world of high-end PC graphics simply go away?"
You're obviously wrong. This story is about how a $99 graphics card might be all you need.
It's on the internet, so it must be true.
Best argument for shooting artists I've heard all week!
Yes, but turning japanese can save you child support payments. I really think so.
Oh... I see... you accidentally the whole thing.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
You accidentally the whole topic.
"...today's technology will become yesterday's technology in a very short period of time."
Yeah, in only one day.
Quake is fantastic with 200 to 500 frames per second on my ATI 3870. :)
Meh. I still like Oregon Trail, it's a great game and runs great on reasonably modern kitchen appliances. Though hooking up a UI can be difficult.
"Trolls they were, but filled with the evil will of their master: a fell race..." -- J.R.R. Tolkien on Olog-hai
"could the world of high-end PC graphics simply go away?" I wish it would! I'm tired of carrying around all this envy directed at people with the kind of coin required to buy top-of-the-line graphics cards. I got a wife and kids to support!
Haha tremble before my single childless income.
...so lonely
"640K is more memory than anyone will ever need."
Am I alone?
The price is always right if someone else is paying.
I still have grill marks on my arm from playing Oregon Trail on my George Foreman grill. I think one of the members of my party got bit by a snake, but I am not sure.
I am going to build a new PC and am in the market for a card. $100 on the graphics card would give me welcome flexibility on other components. Does anyone know if this can run Nethack at full res? What if you overclock it?
This post climbed Mt. Washington.
What he didn't say is, it's a total-loss water cooling system. His office is cooler from the "swamp cooling" effect of the water pooling around the base of the PC.
Reminds me of the guy in my wife's office who kept a window unit AC sitting (and running) on his shelf. His office had no windows.
Yo dawg, I heard you like the Ackermann function, so OH GOD OH GOD OH GOD
Meh. Go render yourself a girlfriend. It's what the rest of us do.
I tried that but we have nothing in common so she dumped me.
I used to have a top-of-the-line 3dfx graphics card. It was all I ever thought I'd need.
I remember when this WHOLE website was nothin' but ORCHARDS; as far as the eye could see.
640 stream processors ought to be enough for anybody.
He pumps the water into his dickhead boss's office, of course.
SJW: Someone who has run out of real oppression, and has to fake it.
How does that work? You're still producing the same amount of heat. Water cooling just moves it away from the electronics and into the room faster.
Easy, he refrigerates the water so it's colder. Don't see how this is so hard for you to understand...
/s
Write your representatives! Repeal the 2nd Law of Thermodynamics!
I accidentally your mum.
Because the Nvidia ones aren't as good, apparently. ;)
Security is mostly a superstition... Avoiding danger is no safer in the long run than outright exposure. - Helen Keller
We know that cards like that are a waste of money.
We don't care.
Money comes and goes, but owning some little punk with a sniper rifle in glorious realistic detail and hearing them cry about it in your headphones is worth every penny.
Some people spend stupid amounts of money on cars that they won't even take out into the rain. Some people collect stamps. We collect the bitter tears of gamers who are confined to a budget.
As long as there's LSD, artists can dream!
Hey, My desktop box is water cooled just 'cause it's quiet. Isn't that enough of a reason?
(How else am I going to hear Rick?)
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It's the chicks, man! Gamer groupies only go home with the Alpha Geeks who buy a new $1000 CPU and $500 video card every year. At least that explains my inability to impress the chicks at LAN parties. Of course, the complete lack of any females whatsoever at LAN parties may also have something to do with it... hmm.
I've abandoned my search for truth; now I'm just looking for some useful delusions.
Hopefully it wasn't a coredump, filling your /home with broken crap before leaving you crying
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Crysis is shit.
It's a shitty game.
It has shitty AI.
It's buggy as fuck.
And it's so demanding because it's so unoptimized.
Benchmarking your computer against Crysis is like seeing how much feces your new blender can handle.
I used to have a top-of-the-line 3dfx graphics card. It was all I ever thought I'd need.
I remember when this WHOLE website was nothin' but ORCHARDS; as far as the eye could see.
ORCHARDS? I remember when it was just a patch of dirt. We had to plant the trees first.
(cue up someone saying they remember the molten rock)
What is it with all these newbies? 286s at 20mhz? Get away from my Vic20 at 1mhz! My glorious tape drive holds all the knowledge I need! Touch my patch cable and I'LL HUNT YOU DOWN!
GET OFF MY LAWN TOO!
Om, nomnomnom...
oh, it's the CPU and video hard. I thought it was impressive usb stick. yeah. they told me chicks liked a big thick stick. so I'll be getting a 32GB one at Fry's.
"could the world of high-end PC graphics simply go away?" Nope, not as long as there are gamers with teeny, tiny penises. Nerd sports cars.
In Soviet Russia, your mum accidentally you.
I heard it wasn't the size alone, but also the width. Make sure it supports USB 2.0 for the better bandwidth.
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Actually it's all automated. The botnets harvest forum accounts and argue with each other.
No we don't ... ... Damn.
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Is this how Slashdot finally ends? To thunderous lols?
May the Maths Be with you!
>but I don't think anyone cared because no-one was
>waiting around for 2d text to be rendered.
*Someone* has never tried to read on a 1200 baud modem :)
hawk
And two days after three days before tomorrow, your hardware was will-have-been is shall-be became obsolete.
Rampant carbon sequestration destroyed the Dinosaurs' tropical paradise. I'm here to help repair the damage.
Clueless? Why?
I could see why you might want to watch a DVD, play music or whatever while playing games like WoW and such. They look boring as hell.