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Article #719990Re: nVidia GeForce 450 mid range 3 years ago?!
From: Rin Stowleigh
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 16:24
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2013 16:24
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On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 09:57:13 -0600, Adam Russell <adamrussell52@yahoo.com.invalid> wrote: >On 6/30/2013 9:54 AM, Rin Stowleigh wrote: >> On Sun, 30 Jun 2013 06:47:05 -0600, Tanzen <waldby...@yahoo.com> >> wrote: >> >>> Whoever said that is extremely prone to exaggeration. >> >> Huh? I assume this is some sort of troll attempt but I'll feed it >> anyway. >> >> The 450 was AT BEST a midrange card when it was announced. I saw one >> review where it struggled to get 52fps in Far Cry 2, three years after >> the game was released. The 8800GTX I had in my system back then did >> better than that. >> >> That's the market Nvidia was targeting with the card. They already >> had faster cards out at the upper end before this was released. What >> makes you think it was ever meant to be a high-end card? >> > >Maybe he was going the other way Possibly but I assumed not, because in another thread he is asking for advice on games that won't tax his 450, and he worded his question such that he seems to believe his 450 is typical for PC gaming performance.
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