max wrote:
A PC built in 07 won't play today's games on max settings. No DX11 for one
sc2 doesn't have dx11 and games with optional dx11 don't 'need' it to be played, either.
that is the only time that one feels 'forced' to update technology - at significant points. e.g. single-core to multi-core processing, DDR->DDR2->DDR3, and i suppose soon standard magnetic hard-drives to solid-state. the increase in directX's are also like this, but to a lesser degree-- as time goes on, and games seem to be getting worse and worse, the hardware-leaps seem to matter less and less. thus when dx10 came out with lots of bright-faced games and talks of physics and hdr and all this great stuff, people upgraded. dx11 seems to bring... less. or at least, less exciting, want-able things. or, perhaps even at least again, games that integrate these technologies into desireable products.
most of gamers seem to still be playing games that are 2-3 years old and pre-date their hardware. they're happy and fine with it. naturally, this being a gaming forum and james being a gamer, i wonder why one needs 285GTX's in SLI-- but he answered that. the same reason i built this 8800GTX SLI machine at a time when all i would be playing was world of warcraft and call of duty 4. to
have SLI, better described in my first post as 'pointless tech e-peen', i.e. not value for money, i.e. a waste.
