daven1986 said:
i thought that too, i figured 2gb was the norm.
on new PCs
having worked with home users for the last 4 years you realy realise just how out of touch places like this are, 99% of users don't want the latest and greatest, they want one that works, they don't want a self built they want it all in, and they don't know what the latest cards are and what difference they make.
kids are bought games on the promice of graphics like in the mags, they get it home and it doesn't work/play like that, they call me out and I spend hours trying to explain that those photos where taken on PCs with graphics cards that cost more than their PC did.
the real worlds full of 6600s (mostly GTs) and 2000-3500s (AMD) as they are what people can afford.
I've had clients nearly barf when they hear that to play Doom 3 or whatever on their sons PC they are gonna have to hand over £100 for a new card, (or more as their PC has not got AGP) and even then its not going to play as well as that.
the IT world moves on without "real" everyday people, we are the ones who use these high end equipment (anything over a 3500 is high end in the real world I'd say), we are the guiney pigs that INTEL etc test their latest tools on before they become cheap enough for real people to buy.
I'd say that we account for less than 5% of all PC owners, people like us who know whats inside their PC (not ones who wanted to spend £3000-4000 and just went to sony etc) people who can swap out their graphics card and know whats going on etc.
people who care about that extra 0.1% performance that you get from having slightly tighter timings, or water cooling etc.
these results only suprise me in that most people seem to have more than 250gig hard drives!
