roberth Wrote:Also, what's to stop one of us buying a beastly GPU to remove bottlenecking XD

1. If you have a beast GPU, you want to run at the highest possible graphics settings, in which case you still get GPU bottleneck.
2. Go ahead and spend US$1000 (or whatever, haven't checked prices lately) on buying 2x GTX 295s for SLI to remove GPU bottlenecking on said highest graphics settings.
3. At that level, you seriously won't care any more, because 150fps and 200fps looks EXACTLY the same to your eyes, so not worth it whichever way.

roberth Wrote:GTA4 recommended a Tri-Core or higher, so games are moving beyond what a dual core can offer

Admittedly GTA 4's port was almost as buggy as a bethesda game, and properly optimised could have ran on a dual core, but clearly Rockstar though that the audience it was aiming to would have the computer to run it. The fact that it sold so well seems to confirm this.

Just read it, AMD Phenom X3 2.1 GHz. E8400 is actually a faster and also much more expensive CPU. It's 3Ghz (3x2cores pretty much the same as 2.1x3cores on raw numbers), and Core2 scales much better than Phenom1 per clock (ie. 3Ghz core2 much faster than equivalent 3Ghz phenom). And also E8400 overclocks like a beast. EDIT: Just by a Phenom II 720.

(This post was last modified: 18/09/2009 09:43 PM by Assassinator.)