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manasecret · 08-16-2007, 04:42 PM

Yeah, there are so many PC games from the last two years that I've wanted to play but have missed out on because I didn't want to ruin the experience with my obsolete computer. So upgrading my computer is much more worth it to me. Plus the tide of PC games coming out in the next couple years (TF2 ANYONE????).

The truth is, if I just bought a new AGP card for $140, then my 4-year-old computer would meet all of the BioShock minimum specs except one. That one is the amount of memory, which good thing right now memory is so cheap.

But oh wait, only the DDR memory is cheap, I'm using Rambus DRAM. Rambus DRAM went the way of the Yangtze River dolphin, so a single stick of 512MB Rambus DRAM now costs $199, which would be almost $400 to only bring my RAM up to 1GB RAM. Compare that to 2GB of DDR2 RAM for about $100, or 4GB for about $250, it just ain't worth it to upgrade. Damn I got screwed by buying a Rambus board.

08-16-2007, 04:42 PM	#23
manasecret aka George Washington manasecret is offline Location: New Orleans, LA/Houston, TX Now Playing: CSS Posts: 2,670	Re: BioShock Demo is up on Marketplace Yeah, there are so many PC games from the last two years that I've wanted to play but have missed out on because I didn't want to ruin the experience with my obsolete computer. So upgrading my computer is much more worth it to me. Plus the tide of PC games coming out in the next couple years (TF2 ANYONE????). The truth is, if I just bought a new AGP card for $140, then my 4-year-old computer would meet all of the BioShock minimum specs except one. That one is the amount of memory, which good thing right now memory is so cheap. But oh wait, only the DDR memory is cheap, I'm using Rambus DRAM. Rambus DRAM went the way of the Yangtze River dolphin, so a single stick of 512MB Rambus DRAM now costs $199, which would be almost $400 to only bring my RAM up to 1GB RAM. Compare that to 2GB of DDR2 RAM for about $100, or 4GB for about $250, it just ain't worth it to upgrade. Damn I got screwed by buying a Rambus board. __________________ d^_^b