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Making Sense of CPU and GPU Model Numbers?
b4dc0d3r writes "How do you make sense of the various model numbers or naming schemes for CPUs, graphics cards, and the related chipsets? All I want is something that will run Oblivion and output full 1080 video to a TV. Last time I built my own computer I just went to Pricewatch, made a few easy choices, and everything came to my door. Do I really have to research the differences among Core i5, Core 2 Duo, Pentium 4, Pentium D, Sempron, Athlon, Phenom ...? And that's just the processor. Is there a reference somewhere? In short, how do you buy a computer these days?"
2006 called and wants it's game back.
Why not splurge and spend an extra 45 bucks and get something that'll run Dragon Age: Origins?
You are welcome on my lawn.
Boycot ars technica, they are hipocrites.
The definition of “optimal price point”!! Do you know it?!?
Any sufficiently advanced intelligence is indistinguishable from stupidity.
Yes when people have so much money they can blow $2k-$3k without spending so much as a day to review their options (read: more money than sense) they just head straight to the apple store, point at the prettiest thing on the counter and hand them their credit card.