lol, you gotta love fanboys.
I've decided on a $200 Opteron 146 for myself. I don't have much use for the dual core functionality and if I buy a week 40 CABYE, I have a pretty good chance of getting 3ghz. That, coupled with a $130 DFI motherboard leaves me with about $620 for a video card. The 512MB GTX has been released today and is slaughtering every other single card, but it's way overpriced at the moment. It's either this card, two 7800GTs or an X1800XT for me, depending on how the prices look around the christmas period.
FEAR on the old system: about 20fps at medium detail.
FEAR on the new system: about 40fps at the absolute maximum detail.
It's a pity that both are unplayable. I hate FEAR's poor optimization.
