It's more a very brief freeze than an FPS drop. I get the same effect at the exact same point with a HD 5870.

As regards fanatics and their upgrades, I bought a new PC this year that definitely qualifies as 'fanatic'. The thing is the manufacturers know what they're doing. Unless you go for the absolute best equipment, they price things very cleverly. Once you've bought an expensive graphics card, it feels like a waste to put it in a crap computer. Plus, a 64-bit O/S with tonnes of RAM is the future. The hardware makers just add in the inconvenience of an upgrade in 2 years to their prices.

dduff

tell us me more about this pc.

i7/920 (modest OC to 3.2GHz initially; beats i7/960 in 5 of 6 benchmarks)
HD5870 (undervolted)
Win 7 64-bit Home Premium
12GB Corsair RAM
Analog/Digital TV Tuner
EAX 3.0 Sound Card
VW266H 1920x1200 TFT Monitor


Fair enough, lacking the RAM drive and latest sound card I'm embarrassed in front of the other fanatics, but still it's the biggest outlay on a PC I've made by miles.

dduff

which progi(game) makes use of 12gb?

The games of the future -- SoW, for instance.

Putting SoW in a Ramdrive will be smooth as hell I think.

A ramdrive would make the game load incredibly fast (compared to a regular hard drive), but won't improve the FPS.

While no drive is faster than a ramdrive, the incredible expense and volitility (they need power to preserve data) makes that investment seem better placed elsewhere. You can put that money into a bleeding edge video card and have a bit of change left over. Unless you already have everything else maxed out, in which case, my hat is off to you.

Hardware questions doesn´t matter at this time. There will be more than a dozen CPU and GPU generations, until the SoW release.

Yes, he's very lucky. I don't have children either. 'Been selling other peoples children though...soon got enough for the triple-head-to-go!
:-)

Selling children is so old fashioned. What you really want is to buy kids. You'd be amazed how much 30 of the little devils can manufacture in even the smallest basement and their union reps tend to be terrible negotiators. A lollipop once a month is a great victory as far as they're concerned.