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    Are Laptop gamers richer or more spoiled these days? I remember...

    Discussion in 'Gaming (Software and Graphics Cards)' started by Bob, May 10, 2013.

  1. Bob

    Bob Notebook Consultant

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    I remember back in the days when Geforce 7xxx and 8xxx was the new stuff.

    People here mostly played games on their new 8600GT DDR2 or DDR3 of they were lucky. Hell some ppl even overclocked their 8400 GS to the extreme melting point to be able to run Crysis with 15-20 FPS on medium settings. The Intel x3100 owners where crazy about tweaking their brand new intel GPU to the limit with custom made exe and tweak files so they could run CSS on over 30 FPS all low settings.

    I remember one blue hairy NBR member getting a hold of the 8800GTSm with a Intel X7800 and ppl where dying to see the benchmarks and compare it with their 8600GT's or 7800GT's.

    TODAY all i see is 680M SLI and 7970 Crossfire owners taking over the whole forum basically. What happened? Did laptops drop so much in price that today everybody can afford a high-end new machine?

    Also things seem so quiet here as well, but maybe am just imagining things
     
    Bob, May 10, 2013
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  2. saturnotaku

    saturnotaku Notebook Nobel Laureate

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  3. Bob

    Bob Notebook Consultant

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    ohh well i guess i was just imagining things... thanks for the bunny and the pancake they were delicious
     
    Bob, May 10, 2013
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  4. Cloudfire

    Cloudfire (Really odd person)

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    Actually, the gaming notebooks are bloody expensive. You can build a desktop beast that can run circles around them for the same price.
     
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    gdansk Notebook Deity

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    Progress. I hate when that happens.
     
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    sangemaru Notebook Deity

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    Dunno what to say. Making my little beast took 4 months net wages (i upgraded each piece over a period of about 8 months).
    But you're right about it feeling silent on the forum. I usually check in every day and look at the new started thread list once every hour. Many times there don't appear to be more than 50 new threads a day.
     
    sangemaru, May 10, 2013
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    2.0 Former NBR Macro-Mod®

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    YAY! MSILOVER got a chance to rant. Wasn't that fun though? A whole thread devoted to a rant about, well, people's preferences.

    LOL. Please don't start these kinds of threads. It's like graffiti on a marble wall.




    Thread closed because useless thread is oddly enough... useless.
     
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