Summer Gaming Guide

By Brian Won | Published: July 20, 2008 - 11:45PM CT Upgrade madness brought on by video game lust—it's something most gamers know well. It gets very nasty with computers, since component makers push out updated and revised products on a regular basis, knowing that if nothing in the current crop of games takes full advantage of it already, a game that does will be along shortly. The thing is, if all gamers were willing to accept a lower resolution, lower image quality, or both, for that game that came out yesterday, many dollars would probably be saved—or at least spent on other things, such as gas, or maybe bacon. But that's just not good enough for some. Hardcore gamers demand more. Gaming needs wants SLI, Crossfire, quad-core CPUs, obscene amounts of memory, multichannel audio and speaker setups—they're nice things to... [read full story]