"no need other than to make DX10 cards cheap as chips for your average gamer."
Sounds like a good plan for me, given that I only swapped my P4/2GB/N6600 for a dual-core system last Christmas - and that only due to bad caps on the P4's board. Anything that drives down the price of circa-2007 technology can only be good for me, since I'm living a perpetual 3-4 years behind the technology curve... when C2D came out, I'd only just gotten a P4. When i7 came out, I'd only just gotten C2D. I'm sure that when I get an i9, some equally amazing step forward will already have long since trumped it...
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"no need other than to make DX10 cards cheap as chips for your average gamer."
Sounds like a good plan for me, given that I only swapped my P4/2GB/N6600 for a dual-core system last Christmas - and that only due to bad caps on the P4's board. Anything that drives down the price of circa-2007 technology can only be good for me, since I'm living a perpetual 3-4 years behind the technology curve... when C2D came out, I'd only just gotten a P4. When i7 came out, I'd only just gotten C2D. I'm sure that when I get an i9, some equally amazing step forward will already have long since trumped it...