Comment Re:What always confused me (Score 2, Informative) 570
Actually I find the opposite to be true. Take for example an Xbox, which is basically a PC from about seven years ago. (Sub gigahertz P3, 64megs RAM, GeForce3 video)
But it plays all the popular games of today's PC with little to no lag. Where as you need a very high end PC to play the same game!
This is mostly due to the fact that the architecture with the video is more direct, than it is on a PC. There's no AGP bus, or any bottle neck to access video ram. It's more direct which is probably why an Xbox can perform as well as a current PC rig.
But then an Xbox is only running at 800x600. LOL
But it plays all the popular games of today's PC with little to no lag. Where as you need a very high end PC to play the same game!
This is mostly due to the fact that the architecture with the video is more direct, than it is on a PC. There's no AGP bus, or any bottle neck to access video ram. It's more direct which is probably why an Xbox can perform as well as a current PC rig.
But then an Xbox is only running at 800x600. LOL
