If I can play all my favourite games on a sexy, slim laptop at settings that don't make my eyes bleed, why on earth would I need a gaming PC? ROTFLMFAO!!!
i still cant believe the dude bought a 2700K then a ~$100 H100 to overclock it to 4.5GHz :| someone forgot to tell him about the 2600K... omg he bought 16GB RAM for a gaming PC using a Sandy Bridge CPU?!?!?! this guy should be fired.
this game is so freakin buggy, i don't know how this guy can speak so highly of it. i need a job as a developer so i can push out crap and still get paid.
A 9800GTX+ comparison is closer to what most of you currently have. 80%+ of all desktop GPU sales come from low to midrange cards. Not the beasts that are first released like the GTX 470/480 and 5850/5870.
@DarthHideous_1 Everyone would agree about the i7 and its 8 threads not being fully utilized in games, but you comment on saying Quads (incl Nehalem) dont use 4 cores is really not true. More and more games are going this route. Just look at Far Cry 2 Recommended Requirements: Intel 2.4 Quad / X3 AMD. one game sure, but a MAJOR release game, which will be followed by a lot more. just depends on how much of a hardcore gamer you are. a 2.4GHz quad would get you at least a 50%+ advantage over even a 3GHz dual core if it was optimized. so going dual or quad i would say, would depend on how often you upgrade, and what games you play. dont forget the Unreal Engine is multicore. its now like their arent any uses for quads in gaming.... and dont forget 2/3 of the next gen consoles are also multicore, so its no stranger to developers. @jetman how is it biased again? you complain about TCO crap? if you actually read comments from console owners, what do they say sucks about gaming on PC?... that you have to upgrade every 3-6 months. my guess is Gamespot knows that too and thats why it was included. and what 2 y\o processor are you talking about? the AMD 9600? the underclocked QX chip? it was put in there underclocked to see how the NEWER AMD chip compares to it, and by the looks of it, didnt do too well. if you want Gamespot to clock it back to 3GHz and watch it stomp that Phenom II then ask them to do so. but i dont think you'd like the result. the Phenom II 940 only compares to the Q9300/Q8200, so its no beast by any means. AMD is gonna lose again this year on the performance front, but thats obvious. so far, AMD says they have no plans to go higher than 3GHz this year, so be happy with what you get, or go with an Intel Nehelam chip. and the comment about how "Most people who would even think to get the lastest from AMD or Intel usualy get almost all new hardware to fully take advantage of the NEW "highend" parts."... is not true at all my friend. Did you know ATi and nVIDIA only make the Enthusiast cards cuz we ask for them? both of them make about 80%+ of their money selling the low to midrange cards. the same goes for cpu's. same with motherboards. you think intel sells more QX (QX6800) chips or more Q's (Q6600) for example?
lol... i've never owned a 360 or a PS3. so fanboy? i think not. and of course a high end PC would smash what these next gen consoles could ever do in their 8-10 year lifespan... and as for the PC vs 360 comparison... of course it would only be to promote pc gaming. we know next gen consoles are selling like crazy, and since this is a gaming site, i imagined it wouldnt hurt to give some props to the PC... unbalanced or not.
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