Poll: PC gamers; is it ever really worth the money to buy top of the line, bleeding edge desktop hardware?
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Never every year, every 2-3 years to keep up to date.
I would never go for THE BEST but maybe the next best thing that does pretty much the same thing. I was on a budget last June to replace the 7 year old piece of junk "family" computer so for roughly £800 I managed to get, 4gb DDR 2, 9600GT, Q6600, 24" wide screen monitor and other bits and pieces. I find it quite infuriating that my friend got a pre-build computer almost identical to mine except with half the RAM and a 7100 for about £550 not even a year later and allowing for the price differences in the graphics card and RAM that's close to about £175 "lost" in a mater of months.
I would never go for THE BEST but maybe the next best thing that does pretty much the same thing. I was on a budget last June to replace the 7 year old piece of junk "family" computer so for roughly £800 I managed to get, 4gb DDR 2, 9600GT, Q6600, 24" wide screen monitor and other bits and pieces. I find it quite infuriating that my friend got a pre-build computer almost identical to mine except with half the RAM and a 7100 for about £550 not even a year later and allowing for the price differences in the graphics card and RAM that's close to about £175 "lost" in a mater of months.
No. Your better off buying a new stock system with a few minor tweaks every three or 5 years then some uber system that you expect to last 10 years. Which it won't. Everchanging advances in technology will always win over state of the art.
Unless it's this of course.http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/gadgetpr0n/66737/Maingear-Ephex-SLI-Gaming-PC-Review.html
Unless it's this of course.http://g4tv.com/attackoftheshow/gadgetpr0n/66737/Maingear-Ephex-SLI-Gaming-PC-Review.html
My rule is to buy the top hardware, then when there's a game which I can't play on mid-full settings (however long that takes to come out), then upgrade. Usually this coincide with the release of new engines (like the new Crytech engine, Unreal 3 Engine, etc...)
But buying top-hardware every year is pointless, if it's only to get good graphics. If it's just to have an amazingly powerful gaming rig, then go ahead. It's your money.
But buying top-hardware every year is pointless, if it's only to get good graphics. If it's just to have an amazingly powerful gaming rig, then go ahead. It's your money.
You don't have to have top-notch shit, my current pc would be under 800 if you'd piece it together yourself, and it will run everything on all highest.
And I run vista!
q6600 2.4ghz quad
club3d hd4870 OCX
4gb ram
344 gb hard disk =/
And I run vista!
q6600 2.4ghz quad
club3d hd4870 OCX
4gb ram
344 gb hard disk =/
No. I have a medium-high range system, and it's as high as I would go. I run everything on max for 1400$ AUS, I don't see why I would go to 2000$ AUS to get higher fps than what is already above needed level.
Pentium 4 3.4 GHz, 1.5 gigs of ram, ATI radeon 200 Mb graphics card, desktop, 1 disk drive, and windows xp.
Now that's bad, but it still run source games pretty well.
Edit: ...and a 30 Gb hard drive, and a 2 Gb flash drive.
Now that's bad, but it still run source games pretty well.
Edit: ...and a 30 Gb hard drive, and a 2 Gb flash drive.
A year and a half ago I got myself a PC with
4GB ram
2.4 Ghz intel 2 quadcore processor
geforce 8800gtx
it cost me a lot, but i had just finished gymnasium and had gotten myself a job, so it was 1 full months pay for the PC + a 22" monitor.
I guess it's prolly better to buy something a little less top-end (it was really good 1½ ago when i bought it), cause you can easily get something a only little worse for a lot less.
4GB ram
2.4 Ghz intel 2 quadcore processor
geforce 8800gtx
it cost me a lot, but i had just finished gymnasium and had gotten myself a job, so it was 1 full months pay for the PC + a 22" monitor.
I guess it's prolly better to buy something a little less top-end (it was really good 1½ ago when i bought it), cause you can easily get something a only little worse for a lot less.
Well, you tell me, is this system "bleeding edge"? Because it's the one I'm building this summer:
-COOLER MASTER HAF 932 case
-GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 DDR3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard
-EVGA 01G-P3-1285-AR GeForce GTX 285 SC Edition video card
-CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W power supply
-Patriot Extreme Performance 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
-AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor
Combined total: $1,235.93 (815.20 British Pounds)
It's no slouch of a system, but beside the fact that it has AMD's best offering, I don't consider it bleeding-edge.
-COOLER MASTER HAF 932 case
-GIGABYTE GA-MA790FXT-UD5P AM3 DDR3 AMD 790FX ATX AMD Motherboard
-EVGA 01G-P3-1285-AR GeForce GTX 285 SC Edition video card
-CORSAIR CMPSU-850TX 850W power supply
-Patriot Extreme Performance 8GB (4 x 2GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600
-AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition Deneb 3.2GHz Socket AM3 125W Quad-Core Processor
Combined total: $1,235.93 (815.20 British Pounds)
It's no slouch of a system, but beside the fact that it has AMD's best offering, I don't consider it bleeding-edge.
Of course not.
My PC is over a year old (CPU even older), with E2160, GeForce 9800 GT and only 2GB RAM (1066 MHz, but still).
I'm happy with it. Age of Conan worked nicely, L4D runs on very high settings + vertical sync + 2xAA + quadruple filters without many problems.
My PC is over a year old (CPU even older), with E2160, GeForce 9800 GT and only 2GB RAM (1066 MHz, but still).
I'm happy with it. Age of Conan worked nicely, L4D runs on very high settings + vertical sync + 2xAA + quadruple filters without many problems.