13 Oct
2012
13 Oct
'12
3:25 p.m.
On 13/10/12 5:21 PM, Pontus wrote:
On 10/13/2012 10:48 PM, Dave McGuire wrote:
A P4 with a newer video card (GF 8800 GT say) can handle a high level of
graphics in say Crysis 2 or Mass Effect 2 (to name two that i have
thoroughly tested).
Even in gaming, upgrade-itis is excessive.
--Toby
Well ok, I can see that scenario.
I still have a tough time wrapping my brain around the concept that
people sitting on their asses playing video games requires (and
consumes) orders of magnitude more processing power than I do while
running mathematically-intensive electronic circuit simulations and
designing industrial control systems. There's something just so very
wrong about that.
-Dave
Have you seen a modern 3D game? they push the hardware pretty hard.
Certainly harder than a Core 2 Duo can handle. At least if you want the
bells and whistles.
/P