Garcian Smith said:
The only reason why you'd need to replace an intelligently-built $800 PC a half-year later is if you're one of those OCD 'sperger PC-gamer types who absolutely cannot suffer the indignity of turning down a setting or two on one single resource-intensive game from "super ultra max" to merely "high." |
I myself do not replace my hardware every 1/2 years. the computer I posted was an upgrade from a AMD Athlon 64 2.0 GHz (one core) Radeon x1600 and 2GB of RAM and only 200GB of space.
What I was Implying by the message was before Crysis came out (which is pretty much the standard for comparing a computers power) is lets say you were just under the settings for crysis... and could play Bioshock yet in some parts it was a little choppy... (my old pc was actually able to play it under those specs) however crysis came out 1/2 year later. In this case I would have to upgrade it when a new game came out.
All I am saying is that having a middle of the road computer for gaming is not always the best case scenario for a PC gamer. I'm most likely going to be keeping my computer the way it is for a good 2-3 years. And I suspect it will be able to play all games that are released in those years without problem. (My Vid card is 10.1 and able to play DX11 games, just not at the highest visuals D: )
And my computer was under 900$. Will i replace it in a 1/2 year no. However if a game that looks awesome comes out in a 1/2 - 1 year and I need to replace something in my system, I'm going to be a little peeved that I didn't spend an extra 30$ to for a better "insert random computer part here"
