If you’re a addictive gamer and you’re looking to upgrade your gaming rig or wish to just keep up with the current technology, hold off buying a new computer or components until later this year. When exactly? Probably around October 22nd, the rumoured scheduled release date for Microsoft’s Windows 7 Operating System.

The two largest manufacturers of gaming chips for the PC, Nvidia and AMD, have announced that they are looking to release the latest in their line of gaming chip products this fall. The reason for it is to coincide with this date is so that not only will new PC’s benefit from upgraded graphics cards but also because that it’ll be around the same time as Apple’s Snow Leopard OS emerges. The important point about this is that both of these Operating Systems will have GPU Computer, the functionality to allow the system to use the graphics card for non-graphic card applications. So for example, anybody who uses Photoshop, rather than just relying on the CPU to render the images etc, it’ll use the graphics card too (faster speeds)

Notably these chips will all have to be 40 nanometre chips if they are to keep up with the latest DirectX 11 update for Windows 7 and therein may lie the problem. Whereas AMD have confidently been stating that they are ready and are all good to go to ship the new chips, Nvidia have been decidedly quiet on that front leading to rumours that they might not finish the chips in time for OS release.

Either way if you’re planning on splashing out on a new chip or a new computer, wait a few more months, either you can get yourself a next generation chip or at the very least, the price of current components and computers will drop.

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