PC Upgrades....?

[y0da900]

Kruger, you seem awfully confident that the hardware will also only run with a DX10 machine. I've only heard about the software incompatibilities, but was under the assumption that the hardware would be like it had always been: unless a certain driver requires a certain version of DX to run, you could run it with whatever you wanted, you just lost the newer features unsupported by that version. Have I missed something big with these new cards, or are you making an assumption about the hardware being incompatible with older versions of DX? If the hardware itself is compatible, I would personally go the dual boot route in lieu of a second machine that didn't need to be there (I've got 3 working in my house now for 2 of us, but most people don't).

[kruger]

Your right, change is inevitable, right up to the point where it completely obsoletes every game in the 200 disc binder I've been compiling over the last 10 years.

I'm with you on this brother.




Yoda, I will be honest, I have not kept up with the industry as much lately as I used to. The last machine that I built was an SLI rig, just over a year ago. And during the research on the Video cards, I came a across a coupla threads on the Nvidia forums about this very subject. If I remember correctly, at the time, the DX10 is not compatable at all with the DX9. That includes the drivers and the Hardware. It almost made me not build a machine at the time, cuz if I wanted to stay in sight of the leading edge, then I would have to build another machine in a relatively short period. That was a little over a year ago, so things may have changed since then, but I dont see any evidence of that. The original post that I made in this thread was only meant to point out that DX10 was in the near future and should be a factor in any machine build.

And to do a Dual boot, you would need another slot for the DX9 video card. And, more than likely, that would mean an AGP card, unless you have a dual PCIe MOBO.

Also, I havent checked into this subject at all lately, so everything that I have said may not be true. But it was when I was interested in building a machine.

[jenarelJAM]

Uh... guys... I have a DX10 machine, and it's playing old dx9 games fine...
DX10 requires new hardware, but the new hardware can run the old software... unless there's something I'm missing... But according to dxdiag on my computer, I'm running dx10... and I've been dabbling in FEAR and Oblivion...

[kruger]

If that is the case, then disregard all my previous posts. I was mis-informed.