I was talking about running the highest of highest end games on high settings like crysis. With a 200 dollar card you just can't...thus the number 300.
Anyone who has kept track of the discrete graphics scene for the past 5 years has known for a long time that quad sli is less than admirable for what you pay for it. Its only for the etreme of the extreme and by no means is a 1200$ graphics setup REQUIRED to participate in pc gaming as the article would have you believe:
"A genre that used to dominate innovation in the field now requires a $1200 piece of graphics technology just to participate."
With a 300$ graphics card you can run almost any game today on high or medium high graphics, which is, needless to say, much better than the console equivalent graphics on the same games....
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I was talking about running the highest of highest end games on high settings like crysis. With a 200 dollar card you just can't...thus the number 300.
Anyone who has kept track of the discrete graphics scene for the past 5 years has known for a long time that quad sli is less than admirable for what you pay for it. Its only for the etreme of the extreme and by no means is a 1200$ graphics setup REQUIRED to participate in pc gaming as the article would have you believe: "A genre that used to dominate innovation in the field now requires a $1200 piece of graphics technology just to participate." With a 300$ graphics card you can run almost any game today on high or medium high graphics, which is, needless to say, much better than the console equivalent graphics on the same games....