Are gamers falling behind in gaming hardware?

[Mr. ADHD]

First time lifer, long time pwner.

Actually, if you can drop 1500 on a system...you have a life...or more correctly a job.

I know pleople that CAN'T drop that money and they have NO LIFE.

[PBAsydney]

I only upgrade when i need to, in 2 years time the 7800 will be as outdated as the 5200 is today.

[Snake101]

I generally like to upgrade every two generations...I don't see a point in upgrading every generation enless you really really have too :)

[AFEDslayer]

you guys we all know if we had the money to spend we would be wiling to get a uber comp, 5000$+ but its just not logical- now if i had 5k i would just build one with the same specs as an alienware and get it for 2500(which by the way is still alot).. we realy shudnt b argueng about this.

[Eddy01741]

I'm calling you out on this one. You're FPS will almost certainly drop below 20 when you have a heavy load on the card. Sure, walking alone in a remote area of the map must get some nice frames, but any time you've got action, you're card is gonne choke like a virgin on her wedding night.

A 9200 barely qualifies (no offense, but...) as a video card and has more use as a "Graphics adapter".

But that's just MHO.

Well, don't ask me, i'm just lucky with this comp, i average about 42 fps in a game. Anyways the X800XL has not failed me yet, the 9200 stunk, i had to play at lowest settings at 800x600 with no AA, that was terrible, so i built a new rig. I've never stuttered, or lagged since. I don't care if you think i'm lying, because when i return from China, i'll be absolutely destroying everybody on BF2 while running at max settings.