| Squilliam said: So you tell me?
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Again, I'm not doubting that the 5850 is a more powerful card, but at $300+ it's also leaning heavily toward the expensive side of the market. I can't argue with those benchmarks, obviously, but you've also cherry-picked two of the most GPU-intensive games on the market (plus a beta running at 8x AA, which taxes any sub-$300 card). For most anything else, the 4890 will run it at max settings, and should be able to for the foreseeable future. That's perfectly fine if the OP wants to pay an extra $100 to push graphics to the max on every game, but I'm working on the assumption that most people here would rather save a substantial amount of cash than occasionally turn down a couple of "Very High" settings to merely, "High."
"'Casual games' are something the 'Game Industry' invented to explain away the Wii success instead of actually listening or looking at what Nintendo did. There is no 'casual strategy' from Nintendo. 'Accessible strategy', yes, but ‘casual gamers’ is just the 'Game Industry''s polite way of saying what they feel: 'retarded gamers'."
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