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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?"

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  1. Re:Once upon a time by fractoid · · Score: 0, Offtopic

    A blue Lamborghini is an offence against nature. Lamborghinis are, like Ferraris, either red, black, or occasionally white or yellow. Any other colour is an abomination.

    I saw a dark green Ferrari in a carpark once and only just resisted my temptation to ram it. :P

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