[SGVLUG] Where's the sweet spot these days for moderately fast PCs?

[Dan Buthusiem]

Have you narrowed it down to the CPU being the bottleneck? What's the GPU?
I ended up solving a bug with my system recently. nVidia's drivers have
forced me to disable my motherboard graphics, fully relying on my dedicated
card. Leaving my integrated graphics enabled caused my computer to lag
strangely.

As far as minecraft goes, I use a GeForce GTX 550 Ti and Phenom quad 9650.
It flies. Core i processors just look so expensive, but I'm cheap. I like
using Tom's Hardware "best gaming [cpu, gpu] for the money" when planning
out builds. I hope this helped somehow.

Chris... iPad better than a C2d? My roommate's selling an HP laptop that is
worlds more useful to me than any Apple embedded device. Besides, how can
you call an iPad strong when it can't even run Linux? :P
On Jul 17, 2012 9:42 PM, "Christopher Smith" <cbsmith at gmail.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jul 17, 2012 at 9:16 PM, Dan Kegel <dank at kegel.com> wrote:
> > My Core 2 Duo systems are starting to feel slow (son
> > wants more FPS in minecraft, and I don't want to share
> > my i7 :-) so I'm looking for the sweet spot again.
>
> Kind of crazy that a Core2 Duo system can't match an iPad (and an old
> one at that).
>
> --
> Chris
>
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