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RE: Computer Geek Talk - 4/16/2008 3:56:00 PM
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blackstangs281
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doin what with a who now?
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RE: Computer Geek Talk - 4/16/2008 4:02:06 PM
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HummerGuy
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I figure since Muddy and I are both into the PC building thing, well, used to be, and some other people on here are into it, why not.
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RE: Computer Geek Talk - 4/16/2008 6:04:43 PM
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rhill20
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What are wanting to do with it? High Def Photo work or play games? If it's only games then you really need at least 2 GB of RAM and a nice CPU (3.0 GHz). The video card depends entirely on what kind of game you are running. Crysis or F.E.A.R.? If you want to run Crysis at full graphics it's basically impossible right now because apparently the proper equipment for it doesn't exist yet.
Don't know half of what I just said. Son just told me all of that so that I could be included. 
< Message edited by rhill20 -- 4/16/2008 7:08:30 PM >
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RE: Computer Geek Talk - 4/16/2008 6:40:20 PM
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3hummers
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Guess I won't be posting in this thread.
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RE: Computer Geek Talk - 4/16/2008 9:10:58 PM
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HummBob
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FUNNY, as soon as I saw the thread title, I knew it was MIKES!!!
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RE: Computer Geek Talk - 4/16/2008 10:47:37 PM
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3hummers
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I'll have to get my IT guy to join now. This will be his type of thread.
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RE: Computer Geek Talk - 4/17/2008 12:28:06 AM
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HummBob
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You have an "it" guy???
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RE: Computer Geek Talk - 4/17/2008 5:24:39 AM
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HummerGuy
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Yeah Bob, you know it
So Rich, ya see buddy, when you have a good GPU on your graphics card (Graphics Processing Unit), it basically takes most to all of the graphics processing away from the main processor, ie the Intel 3.0 Ghz, and processing the graphics using it's own processor and memory. A top quality graphics card has it's own processor (GPU) that is only made for graphics, whether it be gaming or HD video. The standard for the newest generation of games is DirectX 10 certification and a minimum of 512 MB of GDDR Ram, or memory on the graphics card just dedicated to storing the massive amount of texture mappings (pretty pictures) that are overlayed onto the 3D models in the games.
Also, the new PCI-E expansion slots allow for faster communications between the main processor on your system, your computer's memory and the graphics card, although in this day and age, it is ideal for the games to use only the memory and processor on the graphics card to keep the data transfer between your main processor and your computer memory as little as possible.
ALSO the newer generation of sound cards now typically increase your gaming performance 10 to 15% because they take the sound effects and store them in the sound cards memory as well, again, alleviating the bottleneck between the main processor and the sound card, where now the sound card takes care of most of the sound data, and the video card takes care of most of the graphics data, leaving the main processor free to control your keyboard, mouse, data transfer to and from the hard drive, and internet connection for online gaming.
Therefore, as long as you have a decent motherboard and processor, you can buy a top-end graphics card and get the kind of graphics that a $4000 machine can get with most games.
Having a faster processor and motherboard helps, but games are more dependant on the power of your video card rather then the power of your main processor.
And this is probably all I got out of my 3 years of electronics engineering 
See, wasn't that easy?
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RE: Computer Geek Talk - 4/17/2008 6:56:49 AM
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3hummers
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Yep. Actually have two and a service that supplements them.
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