On Fri, 2003-01-24 at 07:27, Vikki Roemer wrote: > > Then again, so are the latest computer component specs, if I can't > > actually buy those components... > > Live and hope, die and despair? Yeah, point. Some day I might be able to buy them! > Personally, I keep up with processor > specs largely because I just find it incredible that AMD/Intel have > come out with processors that are >=2 GHz. Sounds pretty toasty, doesn't it? I remember when one or the other rolled out the first 1 GHz processor. It was quite a milestone, IMHO. > Have they come out with > 3's yet? They're getting there quickly, I'm sure... > But those types of specs I like to keep up on. RAM and HDDs > aren't all that interesting-- they don't change as much or as > dramatically as CPUs. Yeah, they just get bigger and faster. What a gyp. :P > Video cards-- hmm, I probably couldn't tell a > Geforce from a TNT2, quite frankly (although I have TNT2s in both my > parent's computer and mine-- they came with them :); but that's > because I don't really care overly much. I don't play any games that > require an expensive video card. *shrug* Not planning on playing Doom 3, I take it? > Sound cards are about the > same. Well, there are some that do 3D sound simulation, but the kind of game that uses that also needs a Radeon 9700, minimum. > Basically, processors, motherboards, and the price of LCD > monitors are what I really keep an eye on. What about resolution on LCD monitors? Last I checked, 1280x1024 was top of the line... > But, mostly, I just > mentioned that as the first example that came to mind. I mean, if I > were to walk into Sunday's youth group meeting and announce that I had > gotten an AMD Athlon XP 2700, what do you think their reaction would > be? That was my point. "*YAWN*" Close? Alex. -- PGP Public Key: http://aoi.dyndns.org/~alex/pgp-public-key -----BEGIN GEEK CODE BLOCK----- Version: 3.1 GCS d- s:++ a18 C++(++++)>$ UL+++(++++) P--- L+++>++++ E---- W+(+++) N- o-- K+ w--- !O M(+) V-- PS+++ PE-- Y+ PGP+(+++) t* 5-- X-- R tv b- DI D+++ G e h! !r y ------END GEEK CODE BLOCK------
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