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I've played over 50 hours of borderlands since launch on my HD4870, it's never crashed on me despite having glitches in other areas. (Not videocard related)

These requirements really aren't that high.

Yes, the minimum requirements are kinda high. 5 years ago. Seriously, i BEAT those minimum requirements back in 2004.

The "reccomended" requirements are also incredibly easy to destroy with a roughly $500 computer. I don't see how this is any issue at all. (cheap mobo $70, cheap c2d ($100) 8800GT ($120) 2 gigs ram (60~), = $450. (Omitting case, dvd drive and monitor that you should probably already own)

I understand the reasoning of sticking to Motoi Sakuraba for the "best of" CD. But the *BEST* tales soundtrack easily goes to Tales of Legendia which is sadly left entirely out of this CD.

Go Shiina, i still love your work!

to number 10, Matt.

You're quite off.

The Xbox360 is rather comparable to an X800 in videocard, this is using 720p as a standard. The numbers aren't exact, of course, but the 360 hasn't done anything that a top of the line card [i]last[/i] generation could accomplish better. (Better meaning a higher resolution).

Oblivion is a wonderful proof of this.

The PS3 is essentially using a 7800 series according to both Sony and Nvidia, which is what it would need to accomplish 1080p (which i doubt it can do at high framerates). A 7800 is more than enough power would really ever be necessary for a 720p or standard television.

As you did say though, both have considerably less videocard RAM. This isn't as important as it is for PC, as PC's have much more things they have to balance in the normal ram that videogames don't.

That chart seems rather accurate, as my videocard is running the exact same speed as the 6800ultra they tested. Weird that they did the test using a Pentium D, why not an AMD?

Still, i rarely trust things out of TomsHardware.

If you're stuck with an AGP motherboard, this is the cream of the crop available for it. I know of some 939pin boards that still only had AGP, so to the people who use them - upgrading to a PCI-E motherbaord would just be too much of a hassle.

Nvidia wasn't lying when they said that there would never be a 7800GT on AGP, this thing is noticeably weaker than the PCI-E top card offerings, but it's still a good card for those with AGP slots.

The X1900XT is *far* superior to the xbox360 graphics card. It's probably a good 3 or 4 times as fast.

The extra mhrz combined with the *massive* increase in ram speed are what make this possible the X1900 series of graphics cards are made to run a game with absolutely everything on max, including 16xAA/32AF at over 1600x1200.

The xbox360 graphics card isn't made to run anything over 720p (1080x720 i believe) at 4xAA

Of course, the main difference is that you're paying for a graphics card for more than it takes to pay for the entire xbox360 system.

The X800 or 6800series is more comparable to what the xbox can actually put out, except the xbox has lower resolution. (Mainly due to the ram speed).

WASD is about the easy access too all of the nearby buttons, and the fact that your arms are farther apart.

How can you possibly play a recent FPS with the arrow pads if you only have a 3 button mouse? You'd be missing out on extremely important abilities, like reloading, grenades, jumping, ducking, running, "use", quick weapon switching.....etc. etc.

One of his arguments is that you use the pinky key instead of the thumb as a main button.

with WASD, you use your thumb for jumping, as if you were to remap jump to button 5 on a mouse, it'd be using your uhh... pinky.

I don't like HoD, but i've since had my copy of Aria of Sorrow stolen, and i'll be picking up the double pack as it costs the same as a used copy of Aria.

I'm curious if there are *any* changes though.... I'm pretty sure there has to be a few, somewhere...

I believe i'm at over 60 gamecube games right now.
(Oh, only 58)

SNES is second, 40ish.

I've had far more success with my gamecube at parties than any other system.

It's mainly because Mario Kart: DD, Monkey Ball,and Mario Party titles are far more friendly (and fun) than most other multiplayer games.

I also own wavebirds.

For the "gamer" friends, Smash Brothers, FF:CC, Zelda: Four Swords, Metal Arms, F-Zero GX and Timesplitters games more than suffice.
They tend to be a bit too much to handle for casual folks, however.
(thats not even mentioning all of those2 player games i own)