Diablo 3

[boost]

re: bode's gpu

1) gpu, vid card, same same.

2) I'm not sure if this is still the case, but iirc, back in the day there was a difference between gaming cards and workhorse cards. I'm not sure why this would be, or if it is still the case, but your high end video card may be high end for running modeling software, but not for gaming.


re: diablo3

I'm on board with KoRn. Being a big blizzard fan in the past, spending countless hours playing WII:Tides of Darkness, Starcraft, Broodwars, Diablo, and Diablo II, I almost feel obligated to feel excited about Diablo III. Yet, I don't. The fictional world is fairly interesting, but the story was never THAT great, and I just don't care to click click click and then click some more. TBH, I'd feel the same about the GTA franchise if it weren't an open world format game.

That being said, I eagerly await the next Half-Life installment, and will happily build a computer just for it.

[NightGizmo]

2) I'm not sure if this is still the case, but iirc, back in the day there was a difference between gaming cards and workhorse cards. I'm not sure why this would be, or if it is still the case, but your high end video card may be high end for running modeling software, but not for gaming.

I believe this is still true. I looked into it a year or two ago, and the gaming cards are more geared towards speed, and the professional cards are more geared towards accuracy. But I believe that's really only applicable to real-time rendering -- I didn't find anything that said rendering a final image from Maya, as an example, was significantly faster on a professional card over a similarly designed gaming card.

[BoondockSaint]

Installed and ready to go....9 hours