05-03-2013, 03:14 AM
(05-01-2013, 02:13 AM)Drasca Wrote: I do see occasional microstutter, and I'd rather have an Nvidia card if it were purely for gaming, but since I want it to mine to pay for itself, it is mining quite nicely.
Yeah, I'm fortunate that for my own use I rarely need more than one card.
I was reading some chatter on the upcoming Haswell, and how it will threaten Nvidia and AMD. I doubt that, and I really have to see it for myself if on actual release it matches the hype.
Though I can see it if Intel is approaching it as 'good enough' for most use. For people who do no-frills spreadsheet and word processing, light browsing, non heavy 3d gaming, built in graphics have probably been good enough for some years now.
And it makes sense if this is targeted more towards the 'mobile' category.
I can see when I scraped enough of my pennies, my next big purchase will most likely be a mobile device. Not to replace my main rig but as a supplement \ satellite.
If Haswell will enable me to finally have a 'good enough' tablet pc with a stylus, I'm all set. We don't have StarTrek datapads just yet IMO, but damn it's getting closer each cycle.