PP Mguire
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I pay less than the cost of midange GPUs to have high end GPUs each year. As I said before, it's all in how you play it.
He's probably looking at a GTX 970, his graphics will far out do any console but in no way does he NEED that, he can get a GTX960 and still have far better than console graphics. It's looking more what he wants and not what he needs.and the 960 is under $200 when you find the sales.
Only sort of. Hardware and even to a point software has been far more capable than what we are seeing. What drives demand is sales. For instance, until the 600 series Nvidia was releasing their top dog card first for more performance and to combat AMD/ATI in their competition. AMD lagged behind in competition and Nvidia saw a chance to rake in some cash due to cards having significant performance for the content at hand. This is still true today. APIs like DX11 haven't even been scratched in the amount of capability that's there simply because developers have gotten to sheer laziness because 12 year olds will buy up the same **** year in and year out. Games like Fallout 4 and Call of Duty are examples of this in the purest form. That's not even including technologies that AMD, Nvidia and other 3rd parties have to offer to add immersion to games. Tech like Hairworks, PhysX, advanced HavoK, WaterWorks, Grassworks, basically any Nvidia Gameworks tech to name a few are practically unutilized due to the outcry of fanboys and gamers because it hampers performance. That dampens how taxing games can be and unutilized tech decreases the demand for powerful hardware to be released.Well you do know the gaming industry drives the technology end of the personal computer industry. The games make demands that the vid card makers create new cards for.
But updating every time a new game comes out is crazy. He might be giving too much credence to what other gamers are saying. It's also possible he's gotten caught up in the starry eyed OOOOO AAAAHHHHH factor. That's referred to as the "Got to have it" syndrome. It comes when you have deeper pockets than you have common sense or you have a 2 legged bank.