CYD Vicious: September 2007 Archives
So you have an ancient gaming rig, that's struggling to run flash games
from yahoo and you are thinking about upgrading to a nice
Core2Duo/Athlon X2 2.4Ghz or something CPU with some fast Corsair/OCZ
DDR2 Memory on that nForce 650i/a motherboard and drop in a bombing
8800 series PCI-Express video card....
If you did that you could get a screaming rig for pennies...And it would definitely do justice to the likes of BioShock and maybe even Call of Duty 4. But that rig won't last more than a few months before it becomes an out-dated gaming rig. If you are the "late adopter" buyer that gets the best bang for the buck at the end of the life-cycle of a killer product then, don't let me hold you back. But if you are waiting for the next best thing and once everything is out and you want to pick the winner, now is a bit too soon (or late rather). Let me tell you why I think it's too soon.
If you did that you could get a screaming rig for pennies...And it would definitely do justice to the likes of BioShock and maybe even Call of Duty 4. But that rig won't last more than a few months before it becomes an out-dated gaming rig. If you are the "late adopter" buyer that gets the best bang for the buck at the end of the life-cycle of a killer product then, don't let me hold you back. But if you are waiting for the next best thing and once everything is out and you want to pick the winner, now is a bit too soon (or late rather). Let me tell you why I think it's too soon.
Continue reading Why wait longer to build a new system?.
Checking the requirements of the latest and greatest FPS to grace the PC, BioShock recommends systems in the 2.4Ghz CPU range with 1GB of system RAM and a health 256MB video card. Based on that, if you are thinking about retiring your single core AGP based gaming rig, perhaps thing again. XFX has dropped the 512MB 7950GT processing power onto an AGP card.
Continue reading Can you stay in the game with AGP?.
It's literally a walk in the park. With no skill needed, simply picking aup to 3 different colors, and maybe providing an email attachment or link to a few images that appeal to the design of the site and it's a no brainer to put together. But no...everything rests on the shoulders of the developer to come up with the scope for a project that someone else wants completed. ;)
