On Friday, November 08, 2013 12:00:20 Omar Rassi wrote:
> Most of us in the IT field know that even though gigabit ethernet has a
> bandwidth 1000 Mb/s or that SATA3 has bandwidth of 600 Mb/s, you will never
> reach those numbers in real world operation. Does the same hold true about
> gaming and FPS? I found the following article at on Wired:
> 
> http://www.wired.com/reviews/2013/11/high-low-gaming-pcs/?cid=14209594
> 
> I know that beyond 60 FPS its very difficult for the human eye to
> distinguish better quality and that greater than 30 FPS is where games are
> considered playable. Wired brought up a good point that most monitors can
> only display 60 FPS max (high end monitors beyond 60Hz are excluded from
> that generality). So I ask what are the benefits of a multi-thousand dollar
> gaming rig besides bragging rights?

the benefit to me is that I can immediately pick out who doesn't understand 
the bottlenecks in today's software

> 
> The topic here is centered around benefits to the owner of said computer,
> not community projects like Folding@home or Seti@home. Do not discuss
> Bitcoin mining is also a given considering the power of a $5000 rig and how
> much it has already been discussed in the past, lets get creative here.

but muh buttcoins...

> 
> Thanks,
> 
> Omar
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