Thread: Computer Graphics Cards

Toms is a great site


I wonder how many people the world over Google hardware and come up with video cards


and,,

I just spelled google with a small "g"
and firefox underlined it for correction,,
the correction was a CAPITAL g

and I think firefox will be the same

but its not so obviously Google is superior to firefox

just to upset you console types---
the comparison pics are very telling,,,
NVIDIA Talks PC Gaming Trends: Introduction - Techgage

But remember that this is the opinion of a PC site, using information and "trend analysis" supplied by a PC graphics chip manufacturer..... Hardly unbiased!

However, I do agree with the sentiment that new PC games can always be better than console games, simply because they can be written for the new hardware. A console may sell basically unchanged for perhaps 5+ years, where a top flight PC component is lucky to hold it's position for 6 months, and will be largely obsolete in 3 years. It is therefore inevitable that the latest greatest PC will be better than a console.

Unfortunately that also means that unless the PC is upgraded every year, it will struggle to run the latest games, whilst a console will run every game produced for it. Additionally, where the console will run any game thrown at it, then the next, then the next, the PC will probably require reconfiguring, is very likely to crash because of some minor incompatibility, and in doing so is quite capable of losing all your email and personal files. Have you ever seen a recommendation to reinstall the OS of a PlayStation from scratch every year?

The decision is therefore whether to buy a PC and accept that you have a choice of the games currently available but that any future games may give poor performance, or a console and know that until that console is superceded every game released will work acceptably on it.

My (young) kids have a Wii, because it has the best selection of kids games. They also have my PS1, which still runs all the PS1 games, and an XP PC, which runs some PC games (not really old ones, nor really new ones!).

I have a fairly top-flight PC which would run all the latest games at blazing speeds (if I played games!) but will not play the stack of 90's and early 2000's games I have in my cupboard.

If I had a PS3 it would, as far as I know, play every game ever written for the PlayStation platform. Maybe not quite as impressively as the latest greatest PC, but in 15 years I would have bought three pieces of hardware - PS1/2/3 - rather than a completely new PC (or significant component upgrades) every 12 months! And from memory the PS3 cost $700 or so either at or shortly after its launch, which is about the same as the graphics card in my PC - and that card requires replacing every year if I want to keep up with the new software!