ARGH MY GAMING PC IS SCREWED! Help please!

[Brnin8]

Buy a console and never look back? It's what I did.

A new console is more expensive than a new video card.

A new console is not more expensive than paying $4,000 for a top of the line PC and then having to upgrade it every six months.

Buy a console and never look back? It's what I did.

yeah cause those NEEEEEEEEEEEVER break *cough rrod*

Even with the Red Ring and Yellow Light, Consoles still survive better than PCs. Besides, the Red Ring is mostly in first generation Xboxes, and odds are you can't get one of those.

His Graphics card died, not his whole computer. To get a graphics card better than the one he had in his box would be cheaper than buying a console. If you have ever payed $4000 for a PC, you got ripped off horribly, it should only cost around $1000.
The survivability of a well-built PC is longer than that of a console by quite a bit, as long as you either are careful while overclocking or just don't do it. Considering the age of that Graphics card I would guess that this machine is around 5 years old, thats not bad, especially when you consider the failure rates of modern consoles, as examples the Xbox 360 has a 25% failure rate, PS3 has 9%, Wii has a much smaller percentage that I can't remember (but it uses tech that has been around since the GameCube so its not surprising there).

 

[Energylegzz]

Hmmmm.....I suggest you buy this card http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=14-150-500

 

[PatrickXD]

Buy a console and never look back? It's what I did.

A new console is more expensive than a new video card.

That depends, getting a new videocard implies future upgrades in the years to come. A PS3 is a couple of hundred pounds, the price of a top of the line video card, like the GTX 480. So a console isn't necessarily the more expensive option.

 

[MrHero17]

]A new console is not more expensive than paying $4,000 for a top of the line PC and then having to upgrade it every six months.

Was there just like a really popular news story that I missed where everyone found out that computers need to be upgraded every 6 months? Because I keep hearing that same stupid line out here on the web and I can't figure out where it comes from.

That depends, getting a new videocard implies future upgrades in the years to come. A PS3 is a couple of hundred pounds, the price of a top of the line video card, like the GTX 480. So a console isn't necessarily the more expensive option.

But a PS3 is also equivalent to a top of the line computer, from 4 years ago.

 

[flaming_squirrel]

Just about every PC has VGA avaiable to it. Only times i have seen where a graphics cards are must are with the new i7 processors where what you had described happens, and I dont belive that our guy here has an i7.

Woah, wait, what?

Not only is claiming every mobo/pc has a VGA output complete rubbish but you also seem to be implying that every pre-i7 CPU has integrated graphics (which is also lolwut).

 

[Worgen]

Buy a console and never look back? It's what I did.

A new console is more expensive than a new video card.

A new console is not more expensive than paying $4,000 for a top of the line PC and then having to upgrade it every six months.

Buy a console and never look back? It's what I did.

yeah cause those NEEEEEEEEEEEVER break *cough rrod*

Even with the Red Ring and Yellow Light, Consoles still survive better than PCs. Besides, the Red Ring is mostly in first generation Xboxes, and odds are you can't get one of those.

someone doesnt know pcs, only an idiot or someone with way too much money goes for a top of the line machine and you would still have to gold plate something for it to cost 4k, really going mid range and upgrading at some point down the road is the way to go and you can do that for about 600 bucks assuming you dont need a monitor. Really that should be enough to be able to play games at mostly maxed settings for a good long time (altho anti aliasing will need to be kept down, that shit really kills frame rates) consoles have pretty much the same chance of breaking as a pc, you will just see more crashes for pc since devs have a wide range of hardware to program for but a console just has one but everything that can break on a pc can break on a console and with a console. And at least if something breaks on your pc you can fix it.

 

[Kanakotka]

I can run SC2 maxed with a card I found for like 80 dollars. If all your posts are going to be this abrasive and elitist, maybe you should just stop with that first one.

Starcraft 2 runs on absolutely everything, including 6600GT. It's not really a notable example in this case

A new console is not more expensive than paying $4,000 for a top of the line PC and then having to upgrade it every six months.

On what planet do you live on? Because on earth, a new computer, right now, top of the line (not extremely overpriced just released ultra-mega-hyper components you'll never need) costs roughly around ~800?, and will easily last you for 3 years. In 3 years, you'll likely pay ~400? to upgrade it. This, of course, disregarding monitor and speakers, which you don't get with any non-handheld console either.

True, this is costlier than a console, but you can do numerous things, better, faster and more efficiently than on any console, and the control's better too.

Even with the Red Ring and Yellow Light, Consoles still survive better than PCs. Besides, the Red Ring is mostly in first generation Xboxes, and odds are you can't get one of those.

Nnno they don't. Xboxes, including new ones (save for the slim version), have still roughly 47% RROD rate. While PS3's have roughly 21% yellow light failure, and 25% laser crapout failure.
I'm currently sitting on a computer which is 6 years old, has been upgraded once. It has never, not once, failed me. Neither have any of the others i've been on.

If you wish to know, both of my HDDs are 4 years old, my graphics card is 3 years old, my CPU is 4 years old, my ram is 6 years old (aside from one new, cost me 26?), my monitor is 7 years old, my keyboard is 2½ years old, my mouse is nearing it's fifth birthday, the mobo is 6, and my PSU is 6 years old. They all work just fine.

So, likely, in your case, it's a user error, in other words, your actions broke your puter. Good job with that, hero, at least you didn't turn into the 'mac experience' crowd.

EDIT; Woops, accidental thread necro. I thought this was more recent.