you gotta be pretty foolish to buy one of those new nvidia cards right now....there's no need for that power and you pay a premium to have that power now. just wait a year for a cheaper better version of it....
[QUOTE="DanielDust"]Try with Red Alert 3. From what I remember RA 1 got me into RTSs when I was about the same age but that one's way too old and Red Alert 3 is more appealing for kids and people that don't take their games extremely "seriously".DanielDust
RA3 is garbage; if youre going to get your son started on RTSs, get him started on the classics. I recommend Starcraft, Age of Empires, and the entire Command and Conquer series (C&C: THe First Decade is an excellent deal)
What exactly is garbage about it? other than the "not so serious" theme and story? RA3 is garbage..it's true
I do like guru3d description that the gtx 480 is the brute force for performance. High heat, high power usage, and slightly overpriced. Not really alarming to me to see that as its a redo of the 8800 gt (anyone remember the release of those and the high heat, high power, and high price?). What kinda gets me on the gtx 480 is that it has so much more power then it can use do to heat. They actually turned off cores because of "thermal contraints" in a bios patch I heard. Personally though, I'm not a guy who even worries on high end cards. They are just way to high. Personally, I'm waiting for 6-10 months when we get word on the mid level card and how it will stack up to the 5770 and 5830 of ati. For now, the 480 is just too much heat for my taste. Reading reviews and seeing that the ambient heat its emiitng into cases would be around 50-60C is just wooo. I wonder if nvidia should have taged up with corsair and released a mini watercool h50 gpu heatsink equivalent for this card. All good though. Nothing really out for dx11 and looking like it will be a good while until its worth going to dx11. Time will tell.
bunny569
You're actually reffering to the 8800GTX/GTS not the 8800GT, the 8800GT was the best one, it had cooler gpu, Fast, and best price/performance ratio. This is what everyone expected from Nvidia to put out like they did with the 8800GT. But this ended up being a 8800GTX, so that said I will be getting a HD 5970 for my upgrade, sorry i am not rooting for you this time nvidia the 8800 GT came out like a year after the 8800 GTX. you had wrong expectations if you thought the GTX 480 would be like an 8800 GT. that card won't come for another year. that is the card i will buy.
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