Computer Specification: Thinking of Today, and Tomorrow

There is no graphics card that will let you play games in three years compared to the day when you bought it. Those cards "degrade" the fastest of all parts in a computer. Buying a high end graphics card is a waste of money anyway, on the upper ends you pay $100 more for 5% more power.

Anyway, there is no definite minimum because the names of the cards are very confusing. A source I trust is this list though. It's created and updated regularly by the best German games magazine. Even though it's in German you should understand the list since it's basically just a top 20 that mentions the name, the score and the price.

Those aren't laptop graphics cards though, but as someone already mentioned, a laptop is horrible for high quality gaming. It will either be terribly expensive, poorly made and have heat problems, or simply not strong enough. I'd go for a desktop PC if you want to play anything better than Flash games and MMO's.


Also,

graphics card and video card

Those are the same thing, you know.

I meant to say processor, my bad.

Bump.

Ordered the parts for my new computer earlier off of newegg :3

Its an AMD.

What are the specs?

This is why everyone should have a friend who likes tech stuff and reads about it.
And a friend with a pickup.
And one who is good at fixing crap.

Tim Hortans wrote:What are the specs?

That. What's the point of telling us that you ordered one without telling us the specs? Geez, people.