Hey guys, what do you think the gaming reqirements for next year will be? What hardware do you think you'd need to have in order to run next year's games at 1024x768 with all the bells and whistles turned on without a stutter? I think you'd need to have: -120 to 200GB HDD -AMD Athlon XP 64X2 Dual Core -nVidia 7800GTX/ATI X800 XT
Dual cores may come in to use but i think it would be rather hard to implement a game for dual cores and there's just not much call for multithreading games in the industry (YET), more than likely we will need 3-4gb of RAM and for gfx well NVIDIA should be on the 100000 series by then but 512MB gfx cards with be the norm and if bul-ray kicks in then we might get games 10gb+
Damn, gaming next year is really going to put a hole in my pocket. I can barely even save up for the 6600GT (Still hoping for some sort of christmas sale). Why is gaming on a PC so rediculously expensive????
Thing is thou hardware just keeps on costing more like £700 for a CPU (AMD) is wayyyyy too much even if it is the best thing is sliced bread, even Intel's cost less than AMD which seem to climb in price (not saying your not getting what you paid for but come on were not millionaires . Gfx cards are very bad at this moment like 400 bucks a pop for a top of the line gfx that's going to be outdated in 2 months (if it's nvidia), so your talking 2k+ for a ultra fast PC that will be out of date in 6 months.
What p4_tt says makes complete sense, why spend all that money on pc gaming when the equipment you buy is going to be outdated in a few months. I think that there should be a standard that lasts for x amount of years, kind of like how consoles operate. It sounds stupid, but some of us who aren't millionaires kinda prefer gaming on a PC. C'mon nVidia, ATI, cut us some slack! PS. Does anybody know if ATI fixed their fog rendering glitch?
