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[fqllve]

I imagine those are the type of people who will mock you for buying a video card from the wrong manufacturer.

[Duke 2.0]

Graphical processing unit? It's just a fucking video card. It sounds like a spaceship part when you say it like that

I think I prefer this system now, thanks

[nenjin]

Doesn't the GPU actually refer to the physical core located on the card, at any rate?

Your friends sound like the hipsters of PC gaming. :|

[Sordid]

Yeah, it does.

And yeah, they do.

[Gunner-Chan]

They sound like wanna be computer savvy people rather than people that actually know what they're doing or talking about.

And yeah, the GPU is the core on the CARD. You don't say GPU to describe the whole card and setup since there's cards out there with multiple GPUs on the same card now.

So it's video card. And as far as I know it's been called a video card since before AGP was even the standard.

[nenjin]

"No wai d00d! My device manager says it's called a network adapter, so it's not a network card!"

Ok, I'm done

Oh and on topic:

i5 @ 750
4 gigs of ram
GTX 550Ti

I ran it up to medium on the same setup, except with an 8800 GTS. Ran fine (other than the usual Bethesda crashiness.)

[The Merchant Of Menace]

3.2 GHz PowerPC Tri-Core Xenon
512 MB of RAM.
500 MHz ATI Xenos

[Duke 2.0]

Huh, you got a better core than mine, although a fourth of the memory. Although it's DDR2 memory and I can't really deal with that without replacing the whole motherboard, wheras you could theoretically get more memory.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

Those are the system specs for an Xbox 360, thus the

[Duke 2.0]

I have a choice of either admitting my mistake or acting like a PC dick.

...

I really should have looked up those devices.

[Micro102]

I thought that 512 looked familiar.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

I see no particular reason for anyone to know the specs of a 360 at a glance really.

Although if you had, for some reason, been looking at the specs of the 360 you would have picked it out instantly, because the graphics card it uses is specially designed specifically for it.

[Leatra]

I almost made the same mistake before getting ninja'd.

And hey, my friend still uses 256 MB RAM.

It's like the third "You may wish to review your post" warning. Slow down guys.

[nenjin]

It blows my fucking mind someone thought 512 was enough for the 360, even back then.

[The Merchant Of Menace]

I think the PS3 only has 256, it's the reason Fallout 3 damn near killed the consoles before they patched half of the polygons out.