Your Computer Sucks, Get a New Graphics Card
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Your PC? It sucks, it doesn’t have enough cores. Sure, you could get a new multi-core processor like a Phenom or Core 2 Quad, adding like 2 or 3 cores to your rig. Or! You could get a new graphics card instead and get over one hundred extra cores. And more cores = more better, right?
Actually, even though Nvidia’s argument seems slightly retarded and self-serving, it has a bit of merit—as you go up in CPU price ranges, the price to performance ratio drops pretty steadily. And if you’re running Windows Vista, you actually need a solid graphics card to run it without any hitches, even if you’re not gaming. So instead of plowing an extra $100 into a slightly faster processor that’ll net you minimal performance gains, you’d get more out of it investing in a better graphics card.
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Nice blog there.
And the way you pen it down, is amazing.
Thanks for sharing this info.
Yep that’s right and the main problem why Windows Vista has a bad image, 2 years computers video card doesn’t work well becuase it requires to much video processing power. Also its require more CPU and memory
Or have the programmers write code that can run on cheaper video cards, which could be done, but I’m sure the major players in this would rather have consumers pay $500 card to play the latest 3d violent psycho killer game.
Thanks for the infos.
Or you could get more by canning Vista and switching to Linux.