Recent content by Marburg U

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    [Techspot] Q6600 a decade later - does it still game?

    I bet the personal computer industry will be dead by that date, if they don't find some technology to motivate the push for more power.
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    [Techspot] Q6600 a decade later - does it still game?

    I remember playing the Demo of BF2142 in 2006, with a GeFo 6600 and an AthlonXP 2400+, from 2002. It took 25 minutes to build the shaders cache. Nowadays a 5 years old CPU is still worth a bunch of money on the secondary market.
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    Witcher 3

    Or, you could say, that you are more interested in a game where the story is told throughout cut scenes more than anything else.
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    I think I’m done with open world games

    I remember playing Dragon Age Origins, I did it at 99% and took me 250 hours or something. And that was not open world. Witcher 3: i gave up after 15/20 hours, that's one of the most boring games i've ever played. I don't think it's a matter of a game being "open world". It's a matter of the...
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    [Techspot] Q6600 a decade later - does it still game?

    9.5 years ago i did 4 right things when i built my rig: skipped the Q6600 for a E6750 picked 2GB of DDR2 over 4GB bought a mature Vista64 instead of XP Spent money for a 8800GT Through the course of these last almost 10 years i upgraded my system with mostly second handed components. Now i...