It seem almost bizarre that three different types of people can see their computer hardware with such different viewpoints about whether they are in need of a Pc upgrade or in fact whether the Pc they are using has years of life left in it .

On the one hand you have the if it ain’t broke don’t fix it brigade who will quite happily carry on using their Pc for years and years until it finally give ups the ghost and there is no choice but to call in the local Pc repair guy.

Then you have the more interested computer user who most probably likes to keep up to date every couple of years, probably plays a few of last years games but does not really care for the latest and greatest.

And then of course you have the power users and boy do the computer components companies love these guys. The just gotta have the very latest computer upgrade or the biggest and best graphics card (and sometimes two) otherwise they just will not be able to squeeze that extra two frames per second from their game or have the anti-aliasing turned up the max.

Do they count the pennies? Well it seems not and many of them will spend more on their computer than on their car.

So how do the graphics card manufacturers feed the need? Yup you guessed it, they bring out an even more powerful graphics cards to help part these eager techno geeks (affectionate term) from their hard earned cash, and what do the games manufacturers do?

Well you guessed right, they make games that demand even more power and so the economic wheels of the computer hardware manufacturers move ever forward.

Now if you are one of those power hungry computer users you will undoubtedly by now be drooling at the mouth about NVIDIA’s latest offering. The GeForce 9800 GTX.

It would appear that the GeForce 9800 GTX whilst being a new generation of gaming card it is making use of the older already existing processing unit.

Of course some people will just not care and some will not even want to know, as long as it is quicker and faster that’s all that matters.

Surprisingly the uninitiated will equally be unaware of how much difference there can be between two different card manufacturers for what purports to be the same card.

The Graphics chips giants tend to make a reference design available to the card manufacturers and it is up them to tweak the reference design to get the best performance.

Don’t take my word for it, pop over to tom’s hardware and check out some of the reviews. These guys really get into the thick of things when it comes to testing and really do distinguish the gold from the brass.

So my conclusion after reading the review on the GeForce 9800 GTX……I think I’ll wait a little longer yet because quite often when existing architecture is used there is a new breakthrough just around the corner that is just quite not ready enough for release.

But they have to release something in the interim otherwise they just might miss out on some market share (profit to you and I).

Article courtesy of Computer Repair UK, for all your computer support needs.

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