Soldato
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its called progress, and with out it we'd all be writing this on stone tablets
What is it with all this new hardware hype!?
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It's hardly like hardware hype is something new. It's also nothing new that people who like to buy top-end stuff have to justify it to others and also insist that people must be....I dunno....dreaming....or just telling porkies when they say games run just fine on their mid-range system 
I know where you're coming from. I really cant be bothered throwing money at an upgrade every 1-2 years. One of the main reasons is that I cant just do a component upgrade anymore with my system, and thought of shelling out £600+ on a computer to play COD4 isnt high on my agenda. Also hardware seems 'stuck in a rut' imo there is no way I could have played a game in 2003 on a computer bought in 1999-2000. But yet I can play COD4 on a comparably old machine.
Hehe! The majority of the posts in this thread show an over obsessiveness in assuming you only need a fast pc for fast frame rates. Try video decoding on a q6600 with at least 4 gigs of ram or photoshopping with extremely large graphic files that can require anything up to the use of thirty plugins to make an effective transformation. Try ray tracing and rendering without a hefty machine and you'll soon get my point. In short, fast is never fast enough 
You are not going to last long around here if you keep exaggerating framerates like that, and the "hardware hype" as you call it is nothing new either. It is the way companies stay afloat in a competitive environment.
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Well, if you do want to play games in such low resolutions I guess poor gear will work for you
Nail on the head, that's the name of the game.Well, if you do want to play games in such low resolutions I guess poor gear will work for you
There's no such thing as a free lunch and if you want quality you're going to have to cough up.
You're asking why people get hyped about PC's on a PC enthusiast forum? Would you ask why people got hyped about cars on a car forum? Technology moves on, and has to do in order to drive the market.
You could upgrade that rig to a Core2 woth 2GB of ram for about £150.
Wouldn't you need an new board as Core2 requires DDRII ram does it not?
I agree with the OP regarding hype especially NVIDIA whose naming technology might confuse some not to smart people.
I have a 7600GT, if I went purely on numbers I could expect the 8000 series to be better than my 7600GT but quite a few are lower spec.
Minor point but I think NVIDIA could actually boost sales if it had an online comparison of its own so that Joe Bloggs could say well I have a 7600GT which plays X game at X FPS let's look see what the next step is for me.
It's not always apparent and even review sites don't compare series 8 cards with series 7 cards the reviews are usually ATI V NVIDIA.
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Because the HD3850s being on par with the 2900s instead of miles ahead makes sense.
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@ OP
A lot of us now have larger screens, because of this, running at lower resolutions like 1280x1024 etc seem very low quality, not to mention our screens often stretch them in the case of widescreens.
After a while, new games often stress our machines running at higher resolutions, and if it begins to stutter hugely, or get very jerky, a lot of people upgrade rather than put up with it, because they can often afford it, and want to get the image quality they'd like.
I'm planning to upgrade early next year, because I like to switch hardware whilst it still has a little value, or is worthwhile upgrade to the other machines in the home, and even if I can't get top end performance, I like to put together reasonably priced machines that are still classed as high end for a few years, if nothing else, it means I can usually pick up a game and play it, regardless of what's said on the box, even if I have to tweak the settings to get it running brilliantly.
When you consider a lot of people here spend hours of R&R time between work etc on thier PC, or perhaps working on thier PC, you can begin to understand why cheap upgrades like £45 for 2GB of RAM, which make higher settings much more playable, or efficient if they're working with stuff like video begin to become appealing, and dependant on a person's individual free income, what they see as 'cheap' varies a lot. Some of us upgrade every 2-3 years, others every 1-2, and others every 6 months. It's not always just hardware fever, but just a drive to be able to enjoy whatever you're doing as best as you can, especially when it may be a primary hobby amidst working a job you don't really like much.
Work to Play, not Play to Work is one of my mottos
A lot of us now have larger screens, because of this, running at lower resolutions like 1280x1024 etc seem very low quality, not to mention our screens often stretch them in the case of widescreens.
After a while, new games often stress our machines running at higher resolutions, and if it begins to stutter hugely, or get very jerky, a lot of people upgrade rather than put up with it, because they can often afford it, and want to get the image quality they'd like.
I'm planning to upgrade early next year, because I like to switch hardware whilst it still has a little value, or is worthwhile upgrade to the other machines in the home, and even if I can't get top end performance, I like to put together reasonably priced machines that are still classed as high end for a few years, if nothing else, it means I can usually pick up a game and play it, regardless of what's said on the box, even if I have to tweak the settings to get it running brilliantly.
When you consider a lot of people here spend hours of R&R time between work etc on thier PC, or perhaps working on thier PC, you can begin to understand why cheap upgrades like £45 for 2GB of RAM, which make higher settings much more playable, or efficient if they're working with stuff like video begin to become appealing, and dependant on a person's individual free income, what they see as 'cheap' varies a lot. Some of us upgrade every 2-3 years, others every 1-2, and others every 6 months. It's not always just hardware fever, but just a drive to be able to enjoy whatever you're doing as best as you can, especially when it may be a primary hobby amidst working a job you don't really like much.
Work to Play, not Play to Work is one of my mottos
Anyone who says Crysis runs fine on high on a 7900gs isn't going to get cut much slack, haha.It's hardly like hardware hype is something new. It's also nothing new that people who like to buy top-end stuff have to justify it to others and also insist that people must be....I dunno....dreaming....or just telling porkies when they say games run just fine on their mid-range system
(Notice also since someone mentioned Fraps he's done a runner
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Once you play a few quality games on a decent spec machine you wont go back
heh, too true, happaned to me on my sli 7800 rig back in the days... look at what ive got now, the family holiday every year went right out the window
as for the OP, i dont think you see the point, its not all about being able to play all the cool games, its also about competition, friendly competition, overclocking, the good old e-peen...
a hobby... why do people spend 5 grand on a dirt bike only to race it on a sunday lunch down the local hand made dirt track? cos its their hobby! why do people spend 500 quid on a single fishing rod? cos its their hobby! see where im going with this?
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makes me laugh these threads, its like asking a car fanatic why they bought that uber fast sports car, they dont need it they just want it
i wish that pcs like your will handle the games like that but i think you bubbling bit i dont believe it to 1 gig for crysis ddr1
25 ~ 40 fps super low settings maybe ?