The death of PC gaming

Last April, I was building myself a laptop (Dell if you must know) and I had one important requirement which I was not going to give up for the sake of price. That being, the graphics card that I was going to put in that machine. I settled for ATI Radeon X1400 256 MB, which was a low end choice for the previous generation of graphics cards (those that did not support Directx 10) I could have gone for Geforce 7600 but it cost 200$ more and my laptop was already hitting the 1100 $ mark. Although I must say that getting X1400 was a good choice, but now I think that if I had spent those 200$ more, I would have ended up with a card that could at least run games at medium settings.

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