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<blockquote data-quote="Alexis" data-source="post: 550964" data-attributes="member: 16911"><p>Hi Zoolock. I appreciate your reply. I understand your reply, and before I turned to Macs a few months ago I used to build myself and friends gaming rigs every year or so. </p><p></p><p>I think the difference in opinion exists because there are always those who will spend big bucks on mad gaming rigs and stick in expensive new gaming cards. I've always seen it as a false economy - why spend £300 on a beefy graphics card when it will be £100 in 12 months? I've always seen the sense in staying one step behind, playing on high but not maximum, and saving the cash.</p><p></p><p>Which is why I'm happy with the 2600 iMac. It plays modern games well at medium - high settings. I'm not interested in maximum settings or having 100FPS.</p><p></p><p>Yes, the iMac is not a hardcore gaming rig. But neither is it a poor machine games wise.</p><p></p><p>Whilst hardcore gamers spend £300 on a mad GPU, £100 mobo, £150 CPU and maybe £60 on memory every couple of years, I can stick my iMac on ebay for £600 in two years and buy the 2009 iMac for £900, thus costing me £300 every 2 years.</p><p></p><p>I'm happy being in lane 2, playing games happily as opposed to obsessively, and saving the cash, rather than getting the unnecessary eye candy in games and paying through the nose.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>At a decent resolution, with enough graphics memory for textures, AA is a luxury rather than a necessity. Modern games are not 'jaggy' and AA is not 'huge'.</p><p>This is a sidepoint though. AA steals some framerate, but it's not as if modern GPUs can't have it turned on!</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Alexis, post: 550964, member: 16911"] Hi Zoolock. I appreciate your reply. I understand your reply, and before I turned to Macs a few months ago I used to build myself and friends gaming rigs every year or so. I think the difference in opinion exists because there are always those who will spend big bucks on mad gaming rigs and stick in expensive new gaming cards. I've always seen it as a false economy - why spend £300 on a beefy graphics card when it will be £100 in 12 months? I've always seen the sense in staying one step behind, playing on high but not maximum, and saving the cash. Which is why I'm happy with the 2600 iMac. It plays modern games well at medium - high settings. I'm not interested in maximum settings or having 100FPS. Yes, the iMac is not a hardcore gaming rig. But neither is it a poor machine games wise. Whilst hardcore gamers spend £300 on a mad GPU, £100 mobo, £150 CPU and maybe £60 on memory every couple of years, I can stick my iMac on ebay for £600 in two years and buy the 2009 iMac for £900, thus costing me £300 every 2 years. I'm happy being in lane 2, playing games happily as opposed to obsessively, and saving the cash, rather than getting the unnecessary eye candy in games and paying through the nose. At a decent resolution, with enough graphics memory for textures, AA is a luxury rather than a necessity. Modern games are not 'jaggy' and AA is not 'huge'. This is a sidepoint though. AA steals some framerate, but it's not as if modern GPUs can't have it turned on! [/QUOTE]
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