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Originally Posted by Null
i dont get what you mean, what is an example of why building a pc sucks? i cant think of anything that sucks about building a pc. you can only have the latest and greatest anything for so long. what is that supposed to mean?
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I always find it mildly depressing when I build a PC because as I build it I read up on all the cool stuff coming out in a year or two that I won't have.
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Originally Posted by Null
and it wont be obsolete in a week man, i know your exagerating but its not even close if you know anyting about computers. parts come out with newer things all the time, but that doesnt mean thoes newer things are going to do you a single bit of good.
say you have the top of the line gfx card now, and in 2 months a newer one comes out, in all likelyhood that newer one would show you no better performance then the one you currently have, either because its there but you cant notice it because your current already runs the games perfect, or 2 because there are no games out to take full advantage of the newer card. its the same way with all parts.
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I never said his system will be rendered useless, I just said it'll be obsolete. I guess obsolete carries a strong stigma that it is also useless. I just meant something better will be out. Something better is always around the corner though. It's not something that should hinder you from building a machine though, I did tell him to go for it and not think about the future too much.
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Originally Posted by null
i personally like having the same computer and only buying an upgrade now and then as opposed to setting the whole console aside and buying an entirely new game console every 4 - 5 years.
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DX10 will add a lot of performance boosts. DDR2 maybe not so much, at least not right away. I think everything he's picked out will be fine save for the fact that he won't have DX10 on his cards. It will still run the DX9.0L or whatever windows has as its alternative.
You won't be able to run Halo 2 without vista though. Because that game totally needs DX10 to run.