[citation][nom]amk-aka-phantom[/nom]1) Good boards start at $120. $200 is a solid board. If you're looking at anything that costs more than $200, that's either ROG or Gigabyte G1 boards, which are overpriced toys for extreme, very rich gamers.2) You're not a gamer. At least not in my sense. I meant PC gamers - they need DirectX 11 (which is why we upgraded to Windows 7), latest graphic effects, etc. Xbox 360 doesn't count here, because it doesn't require Windows to game, so you shouldn't care whether you're running WinXP or Win8. Advice: throw that junk out and start playing real games on decent hardware.3) Back to topic: it's a bit sad that Microsoft wants Win8 to run on tablets, smartphones and other pseudo-computers - that means the new OS won't focus on PCs sharply and we won't see a lot of innovation, such as abandoning 32-bit. And don't even start about people "who still use an x86-based system" - those do NOT need an upgrade to Win8. Who uses x86? Offices? Seniors? They'll do just fine with XP or 7.Good thing they're getting rid of legacy code, though. And I won't be so quick to call BS on 360 support rumors - by that time MS might release a new console (720?) and makes sure Win8 supports 360 games, but NOT 720. And whoever mentioned system requirements being higher because of 360 support - why? Minimum requirements will assume you're not going to do that, they include just the specs you need to run the OS itself. Otherwise, following your logic, system requirements for Win7 equal those for Crysis, because Win7 supports Crysis. And besides... Xbox 360 uses outdated hardware: 512 MB RAM, 3.2 GHz triple-core CPU and a lame graphics card... just how high can these "requirements" get? Probably one of the reasons why Sandy Bridge shreds Phenom pretty much in every task. Old socket = old limitations, old problems. Don't see a point of getting a new CPU all the time, anyway - just get the most powerful thing available and use it for 2-3 years, then sell the whole PC and get a brand-new one. I know people who're still kicking with Core 2 Quad, because it was the best a few years back and still works great in modern games. If, however, you upgrade every time a new CPU comes out, you're losing way more money for a small increase in performance. Example: if you've got a Core i7-950, it's useless to upgrade to Sandy Bridge, you'll have to spend at least $400 for the new CPU and mobo, and you won't see a huge increase in performance. If, however, you're upgrading from Celeron to SB, it's totally worth it.[/citation]
i care far more about game play than i will ever care about graphics, hell i played more of terraria in the past few weeks that any other game put togeather. only reaon i have a 360 a ps3 and a wii is because they play games that will never come to a pc, outside of emulation, and im not waiting on emulation.
i have a little brother, who refuses to play any game that isn't 3d because "its old s***, f*** that game" and i cant consider him a gamer because of that.
and back onto the dx9 10 and 11, i would rather play games using opengl, but sadly thats not going to happen, even though its about equal to dx11, and until 11, it was better than dx anything, if i had opengl gaming, i could use linux as a viable option. now again, what did dx10 do that dx9 couldn't fake? sure it wasnt a native support in 9, but nothing dx 10 could do dx 9 couldent with some creative programing. its only with dx11 that something was introduced that isnt in 9, tessellation. but that is only limited to ambiance right now, when a full game world is enhanced from ground up with it, THAN we can talk about dx11 being king, but as of now, we dont even have close to the power to do that, hell most games when you turn on tessellation take about a 30-40% performance hit, and until crysis 11 patch, any game with it i had a hard time telling which screenshots were tessellation and which ones weren't.
ill miss out on battlefield 3, at least till it hits the wiiu, but thats kind of a trade off, because i can see so much interesting s*** they can do with the tablet, and dice is the kind of company to really take advantage of that.
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