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fazz on 06 August 2008
kingofwale said:
totalwar23 said:
When I say future-proof, I mean able to play the games that will be release in the future, not in comparison to other computers as I stated in the post. Don't people read?

again, my non-gaming laptop has that many ram and I can't even play games on it, how do you even manage to play video game today???

an extremely dumb question to ask about ram, when the most important part is the video-card. If you are going to cheap out on ram itself... don't play PC games.. Get a console, it's cheaper in the long run.

Laptops suck for games. Even the best of the best laptop would pale against an medium-low range desktop gaming PC.

Anyway, DDR2 is epically cheap right now. Stuff it with RAM before it gets more expensive, soon I will fill the 8GB that my mobo can support ^_^



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totalwar23 on 06 August 2008
kingofwale said:
totalwar23 said:
When I say future-proof, I mean able to play the games that will be release in the future, not in comparison to other computers as I stated in the post. Don't people read?

again, my non-gaming laptop has that many ram and I can't even play games on it, how do you even manage to play video game today???

an extremely dumb question to ask about ram, when the most important part is the video-card. If you are going to cheap out on ram itself... don't play PC games.. Get a console, it's cheaper in the long run.

And again, I said this isn't about comparing my computer to other computers but how long it'll be able to play newer release games. And again, this is what I mean by "future proof" as stated in my first and subsequent post. And again, since you're obviously not a PC gamer, how would you know what's enough and what's not?

I'm fully aware about the other components of my PC, such as a video card but I can upgrade my video card, but not my RAM. Don't you read? And where do you get off telling people what platforms to play their games on? You think I play games on my PC and not consoles because of money constraints?

@Cougarman, unfortunately, I can't. Well, it'll be somewhat difficult for this PC.

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@ssj12-DDR2

I'm just looking for an time estimate here, not how my computer isn't future-proof. I use one word in quotations and people automatically get stuck on it.

 



slimeattack on 06 August 2008

Well this should be enough for a year or two.



Mr.Y on 06 August 2008

Everybody knows only PS3s are future proof.



Cougarman on 06 August 2008

totalwar23, its very hard to know when 2gb will become inefficient for gaming, depends on individual game specs, like me right now i can run crysis on my pc but i cant run assassins creed because i have single core cpu.



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kingofwale on 06 August 2008
totalwar23 said:
kingofwale said:
totalwar23 said:
When I say future-proof, I mean able to play the games that will be release in the future, not in comparison to other computers as I stated in the post. Don't people read?

again, my non-gaming laptop has that many ram and I can't even play games on it, how do you even manage to play video game today???

an extremely dumb question to ask about ram, when the most important part is the video-card. If you are going to cheap out on ram itself... don't play PC games.. Get a console, it's cheaper in the long run.

And again, I said this isn't about comparing my computer to other computers but how long it'll be able to play newer release games. And again, this is what I mean by "future proof" as stated in my first and subsequent post. And again, since you're obviously not a PC gamer, how would you know what's enough and what's not?

I'm fully aware about the other components of my PC, such as a video card but I can upgrade my video card, but not my RAM. Don't you read? And where do you get off telling people what platforms to play their games on? You think I play games on my PC and not consoles because of money constraints?

@Cougarman, unfortunately, I can't. Well, it'll be somewhat difficult for this PC.

Edit-

@ssj12-DDR2

I'm just looking for an time estimate here, not how my computer isn't future-proof. I use one word in quotations and people automatically get stuck on it.

 

You can upgrade your videocard but you can't upgrade your ram? Wow, that's a shocker to me. Please explain to me since I'm suuuch a newbie.

 

Again, if i can't even play video game on my XPS gaming laptop, what makes you think you can with 2GB of ram? And like I said, if you can't afford to buy more ram, then you certainly can't afford to buy better video card.. time to just go for console.

P.S. if you have to ask this question, I'm certainly a much bigger PC gamer than you.



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Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

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Episode 2:
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Cougarman on 06 August 2008
kingofwale said:

You can upgrade your videocard but you can't upgrade your ram? Wow, that's a shocker to me. Please explain to me since I'm suuuch a newbie.

 

Again, if i can't even play video game on my XPS gaming laptop, what makes you think you can with 2GB of ram? And like I said, if you can't afford to buy more ram, don't certainly can't afford to buy better video card.. time to just go for console.

 

 

he clearly said his motherboards limit is 2gb ram, and again even the best laptops cant play games as good as 1 year old desktop pc, because the most important thing for games is the graphics card and laptops have crap ones, so if he has decent graphics card and 2gb ram his pc will play pc games better than your laptop.



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totalwar23 on 06 August 2008
kingofwale said:
totalwar23 said:
kingofwale said:
totalwar23 said:
When I say future-proof, I mean able to play the games that will be release in the future, not in comparison to other computers as I stated in the post. Don't people read?

again, my non-gaming laptop has that many ram and I can't even play games on it, how do you even manage to play video game today???

an extremely dumb question to ask about ram, when the most important part is the video-card. If you are going to cheap out on ram itself... don't play PC games.. Get a console, it's cheaper in the long run.

And again, I said this isn't about comparing my computer to other computers but how long it'll be able to play newer release games. And again, this is what I mean by "future proof" as stated in my first and subsequent post. And again, since you're obviously not a PC gamer, how would you know what's enough and what's not?

I'm fully aware about the other components of my PC, such as a video card but I can upgrade my video card, but not my RAM. Don't you read? And where do you get off telling people what platforms to play their games on? You think I play games on my PC and not consoles because of money constraints?

@Cougarman, unfortunately, I can't. Well, it'll be somewhat difficult for this PC.

Edit-

@ssj12-DDR2

I'm just looking for an time estimate here, not how my computer isn't future-proof. I use one word in quotations and people automatically get stuck on it.

 

1. You can upgrade your videocard but you can't upgrade your ram? Wow, that's a shocker to me. Please explain to me since I'm suuuch a newbie.

 

2. Again, if i can't even play video game on my XPS gaming laptop, what makes you think you can with 2GB of ram? And like I said, if you can't afford to buy more ram, then you certainly can't afford to buy better video card.. time to just go for console.

 

1. In the first post of the thread:

totalwar23 said:

My mobo can only support 2GB max so I was wondering how long till my PC is unable to play newly released games? A year? 2? I can't get a new computer as I bought this one last.

2. I don't know what you have in your XPS or why you can't game with it. I just know I can play modern games with mine and the reason why I started this thread was to asked how long till that will last. The rest of your post is already answered. What an irritating person you are.



kingofwale on 06 August 2008
totalwar23 said:
kingofwale said:
totalwar23 said:
kingofwale said:
totalwar23 said:
When I say future-proof, I mean able to play the games that will be release in the future, not in comparison to other computers as I stated in the post. Don't people read?

again, my non-gaming laptop has that many ram and I can't even play games on it, how do you even manage to play video game today???

an extremely dumb question to ask about ram, when the most important part is the video-card. If you are going to cheap out on ram itself... don't play PC games.. Get a console, it's cheaper in the long run.

And again, I said this isn't about comparing my computer to other computers but how long it'll be able to play newer release games. And again, this is what I mean by "future proof" as stated in my first and subsequent post. And again, since you're obviously not a PC gamer, how would you know what's enough and what's not?

I'm fully aware about the other components of my PC, such as a video card but I can upgrade my video card, but not my RAM. Don't you read? And where do you get off telling people what platforms to play their games on? You think I play games on my PC and not consoles because of money constraints?

@Cougarman, unfortunately, I can't. Well, it'll be somewhat difficult for this PC.

Edit-

@ssj12-DDR2

I'm just looking for an time estimate here, not how my computer isn't future-proof. I use one word in quotations and people automatically get stuck on it.

 

1. You can upgrade your videocard but you can't upgrade your ram? Wow, that's a shocker to me. Please explain to me since I'm suuuch a newbie.

 

2. Again, if i can't even play video game on my XPS gaming laptop, what makes you think you can with 2GB of ram? And like I said, if you can't afford to buy more ram, then you certainly can't afford to buy better video card.. time to just go for console.

 

1. In the first post of the thread:

totalwar23 said:

My mobo can only support 2GB max so I was wondering how long till my PC is unable to play newly released games? A year? 2? I can't get a new computer as I bought this one last.

2. I don't know what you have in your XPS or why you can't game with it. I just know I can play modern games with mine and the reason why I started this thread was to asked how long till that will last. The rest of your post is already answered. What an irritating person you are.

again, I don't know what motherboard you have... but if it only support 2GB, it's probably not good enough. get a new mobo if you want any kind of "future-proof"



Soriku (Feb 10/08): In 5 years the PS3/360 will be dead.

KH3 bet: "If KH3 comes to Wii exclusive, I will take a 1 month of sig/avatar by otheres open a thread apologize and praise you guys' brilliance." http://vgchartz.com/forum/thread.php?start=50&id=18379
Original cast: Badonkadonkhr, sc94597 allaboutthegames885, kingofwale, Soriku, ctk495, skeezer, RDBRaptor, Mirson,

Episode 1: OOPSY!
selnor: Too Human I even expect 3-4 mill entire life and 500,000 first day. GoW2 ( expect 7 - 9 million entire life and over 2 mill first day), Fable 2 (expect 5-6 million entire life and 1.5 mill fist day) BK3 (expect 4 - 5 mill sales entire life and 1 mill first day).. Tales/IU/TLR should get to 2 or 3 million! post id: 868878
Episode 2:
Letsdance: FFXIII (PS3+360) first week in NA = 286K
According to pre-order rate in week 13 (post id: 2902544)
totalwar23 on 06 August 2008
kingofwale said:
totalwar23 said:
kingofwale said:
totalwar23 said:
kingofwale said:
totalwar23 said:
When I say future-proof, I mean able to play the games that will be release in the future, not in comparison to other computers as I stated in the post. Don't people read?

again, my non-gaming laptop has that many ram and I can't even play games on it, how do you even manage to play video game today???

an extremely dumb question to ask about ram, when the most important part is the video-card. If you are going to cheap out on ram itself... don't play PC games.. Get a console, it's cheaper in the long run.

And again, I said this isn't about comparing my computer to other computers but how long it'll be able to play newer release games. And again, this is what I mean by "future proof" as stated in my first and subsequent post. And again, since you're obviously not a PC gamer, how would you know what's enough and what's not?

I'm fully aware about the other components of my PC, such as a video card but I can upgrade my video card, but not my RAM. Don't you read? And where do you get off telling people what platforms to play their games on? You think I play games on my PC and not consoles because of money constraints?

@Cougarman, unfortunately, I can't. Well, it'll be somewhat difficult for this PC.

Edit-

@ssj12-DDR2

I'm just looking for an time estimate here, not how my computer isn't future-proof. I use one word in quotations and people automatically get stuck on it.

 

1. You can upgrade your videocard but you can't upgrade your ram? Wow, that's a shocker to me. Please explain to me since I'm suuuch a newbie.

 

2. Again, if i can't even play video game on my XPS gaming laptop, what makes you think you can with 2GB of ram? And like I said, if you can't afford to buy more ram, then you certainly can't afford to buy better video card.. time to just go for console.

 

1. In the first post of the thread:

totalwar23 said:

My mobo can only support 2GB max so I was wondering how long till my PC is unable to play newly released games? A year? 2? I can't get a new computer as I bought this one last.

2. I don't know what you have in your XPS or why you can't game with it. I just know I can play modern games with mine and the reason why I started this thread was to asked how long till that will last. The rest of your post is already answered. What an irritating person you are.

again, I don't know what motherboard you have... but if it only support 2GB, it's probably not good enough. get a new mobo if you want any kind of "future-proof"

I've already answered that question when Cougarman asked me. With this PC, it'll be difficult to do so. Why did you think I ask this question about RAM in the first place? And already, I explained what I meant by saying "future proof" so why do you keep getting hang up on that word?