Whats The Point?

[orcutt989]

I dont know about the whole "2 years outdated". You could have bought a 128mb video card 2 years ago, and its still miraculously awesome today.

[tesco]

Originally posted by bigdawgfoxx@24 June 2004 - 19:24
This is retarted. The reason we need better hardware is cuz games reqiure better stuff because they look better and have more features and stuff. They shouldnt give hardware away. Plan your buying of hardware carefully so you get a good deal that will last a while.

agreed, gotta be smart with youyr thinking.

long time ago, probably like a year and a half or so lol, if you were to buy a geforce fx5200, all games out till now run on it fine, you could even have upgraded it.

But if you were stupid and went for ati, the 9200, then the newsest games dont run on it at all, cause it doesn't have directx 9 support.

Again now, if you buy a new vidoe card, want it to last, x800 is a bad choice the nvidia 6800 card has pixel shader 3, which the x800 doesn't...

see what i mean?

[fred devliegher]

The reason we need better hardware is cuz games reqiure better stuff because they look better and have more features and stuff.

Has it ever occured to you they're not fully using the hardware ? It's a *lot* easier to just up the specs rather then optimise the code, but with a little thought and effort you can get "outdated" hardware to do some pretty impressive stuff.

Example ? The Game Boy Color. Running of what was essentially a fifteen-year-old Z80, it still had full-motion video, hi-res graphics and even rudimentary 3D. Why ? Because the developers had to squeeze out every last drop of horsepower.

[Spicker]

all of u are right if u guyz bought a fx5200 2 years ago it sitll would hav been good...

my friend is playing far cry and hitman 3 flawlessly on low resolution.... with his fx5200 and i hav a fx5600 i dont see any big difference...

anywayz my point is ummm go buy a 9800XT and dont upgrade for atleast 2 years