Question about graphic card & about directx

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Who cares if you are using professional software that takes advantage of the i7's hyperthreading! That has nothing to do with gaming or Cliffs of Dover. All you're doing is trying to get people to throw away hundreds of dollars on something they don't need. When people ask, "What's a good system for Cliffs of Dover?" they're not asking," what's a good system for Cliffs of Dover and running professional video editing software?". Understand?

They don't want to throw away thousands of dollars on a system that's going to be spanked by an $800 one a year from now. They don't care if the i7 will allow them to render their CGI nerd fantasies 40 seconds faster. Nobody cares about that!

Dude, are you blind? I told them to buy a cheaper cpu then others suggested. Seriously you need to read... They are saying to buy sandybridgre 32nm cpus, I said to buy the older, cheaper but currently comaparable Nehalem range which is gen 1 i7. I also never suggested to by a gulftown cpu. Now next time read the post before you respond, or atleast try to know what the differance is between cpus. Kthx

Originally Posted by Heliocon

Dude, are you blind? I told them to buy a cheaper cpu then others suggested. Seriously you need to read...

Hmmm... first reply you made.

Originally Posted by Heliocon

You want to aim at a 4 core CPU, preferably a i7 which are the best atm...

Originally Posted by Heliocon

Get an i7...

I eagerly await your huge copy and paste reply from Wikipedia/Tom's Hardware/wherever.

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by speculum jockey

Hmmm... first reply you made.





I eagerly await your huge copy and paste reply from Wikipedia/Tom's Hardware/wherever.

Why? Whats your argument? I said buy a gen 1 i-7, they said buy a gen 2 i-7 or gen 2 i-5 which are both more expensive than the gen 1 i-7 I believe. If you are too lazy to read/think, its not worth the time to try and educate you. Its easy information to find and it is pretty clear what I stated and that you are either playing dumb or trolling.

So what hardware would you suggest? Do you think for $800 you can play COD on good settings? I would say definitly not.

[jf1981]

Hi,

Question turned another way, would the game look nicer (recent amazing visual effects) when changing from (for example) Nvidia 260 to 5xx serie which - as far as I understand - does support a further feature rich set of visual effects on top of older cards ?

Thanks