rmb the last time i wrote about the email East Coast Park lanshop sent to mi?. Now they are on the papers.

Pictures from Strait Times Computer Times ,Tuesday July24 2007.





"icafe is the first gaming centre in South -east Asia to use Intel's ultra -fast core2 Quad chups on its PCs -all 120 of them"

that was the summary of the article by the writor. perhaps its true so lets read on.

Quote
"for gamers, that means faster loading times for graphics-heavy games, such as World of Warcraft and Grandado Espada - up to 53 per cent faster , to be exact."
1st thing to be clear. MMORPG games like World of warcraft and grandado esapda arent really graphics heavy games. anyone with a low-mid end com , even laptops can run them at acceptable framerate and settings . Grahpic heavy games are -Crysis, Fear, S.T.A.L.K.E.R mainly first person shooting games which are out this year. Crysis might even put xbox360 to a test. Basically the writer is just using big names to attract reader attention.

Follow by which
"in World of warcraft will move in fluid, not jerky, movements, and the graphics will look more realistic."
The common impression of normal popoluation who know nuts about IT stuff, is that QuadCore- faster , better even for games.WHICH is so not true. a fast processor does aide multi-tasking and video editing and designing and stuff .BUT in the gaming world , its only 1-2% increase in performance for graphic intense game. MOST of the games rely more on a gd graphic card and high quality memory sticks rather then the processor except RTS games like supreme commander which drain most of your processor resource but still more % is towards the grahpic card/memory sticks.

""many popular titles , such as Quake 4 and Call of Duty 2, are releasing patches that requires multi-processor technology to play them"
Firstly this games are more than a year old. IF they are saying they need quad core to run them, wat happen one year ago when theres only single/dual cores :). Most of the time common population have a mindset that they had to have a high end com to play those high detailed games which is not true. ordering coms pre-build com from Dell and blahblah are just too stupid. U could have saved $500+ if you build it urself. Moreover those companies dont give much access to high end computer parts.

IN summary , this article is misleading though theres little bit of truth in it . Either the writer is paid to promote the lanshop or his just a amateur in the area of IT gaming.

*srry if the pictures are unclear i was using my handphone to take it.