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Default This Alienware Graph Make Sense to Anyone?

ok, so, I was going through alienware's website seeing how ridiculously overpriced I could make a computer (because I needed to remind myself that i could have wasted even more of my money on a computer ), and on the graphics card page I could not help but notice this graph:



so, umm, what?

what is that graph even comparing?!

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They just want to draw in people who don't know much about computers :P
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probably quadsli vs crossfire with 5870s?
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probably quadsli vs crossfire with 5870s?
He means the scale they're being compared on; it doesn't make any sense.
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It's for n00bs, that have more money then brains, people get charts and pretty colors.

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yea, i meant the scale.

and just now i found this:



whats up with ubuntu being $5 more than windows?

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Well, the scale of the graph is distorted to display a larger gap in performance. The graph starts at 94% and ends at 114%. Most people will be like "OMG twice the performance?!?" and buy the 295's, when in actuality, theres hardly that much difference.
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"With crossfired 5870s, you'll get almost 1.02fps, but with gtx 295's in SLI, you'll get almost 1.12fps!"
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Tru dat! I am totally confuses as to how those numbers on the graph show any correlation to the graphics cards! How does that graph illustrate a 12% difference?

Mega gay!

I would totally buy an Alienware laptop if I was rich though! I love aliens! Anyways, yeah, that's all.
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yea, i meant the scale.

and just now i found this:



whats up with ubuntu being $5 more than windows?

The **** is up with Ubuntu costing anything AT ALL? It's ****ing freeware.
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