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<\/a>Night vision, aiming for pedestrians has never been so easy<\/p><\/div>\n
The important bits of a car have remained the same for decades. A decent, fuel-efficient engine (or if not fuel-efficient, immensely powerful); a safe cabin; perhaps an aircon; enough space for your needs; and four wheels (this last one is debateable). These are the basics that you\u2019ll find in most new-entry to mid-range level cards, and that\u2019s how it should be.<\/p>\n
So what are you going to focus on when buying a new car? The cute little features that you\u2019ll probably only use once and talk about when you\u2019re boring your mates in between Dota games – confirming that you are indeed a dreary bore? Or are you going to do the logical thing and focus on the things that matter?<\/p>\n
The same thing applies to computer hardware.<\/p>\n
Let\u2019s talk about graphics cards, and the buzz word \u201coverclocking\u201d. Without getting all hipster, overclocking has become incredibly easy and mainstream now – anyone can do it, and everyone knows about it.<\/p>\n
However, for the most part, gamers just leave their graphics cards on stock settings and continue on until they start lagging, at which point they might dabble with the overclocking settings before upgrading their card. Be honest with yourself, are you going to overclock the card? If not, don\u2019t worry too much about the marketing surrounding overclocking, or the great new cooler that will kept the graphics card cool while overclocking.<\/p>\n
Take for example CUDA technology found on Nvidia graphics cards. CUDA is \u201ca parallel computing platform and programming model invented by NVIDIA. It enables dramatic increases in computing performance by harnessing the power of the graphics processing unit.\u201d A nifty feature to be sure, however it remains largely irrelevant to most gamers out there.<\/p>\n