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WilliamWatts on 23 July 2010
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HappySqurriel said:


I like how my views are "dated" even though they’re still valid. A cheap PC that can play new games will run you around $750 to $1,500 and the cheaper you buy the more often you will need to upgrade. You would need to buy between 50 and 100 games for your PC before the average cost savings per title ($10 to $20 depending on multiple factors) allowed you break even on the sale of the hardware; and about the only time people save money through PC gaming is if they pirate games, which is one of the reasons why so few PC exclusive experiences exist anymore.

If you want to own a physical copy of a game, which I really do if I'm paying full price for a game, you have the same purchasing process as a console game except you’re left with the time consuming process of installing the game.

 

Right now I’m looking into replacing my current PC with something that will play Starcraft 2 and Starwars: The Old Republic at decent levels without needing to upgrade in 12 months when another game comes out; and the price level I’m looking at is between $1,000 and $1,500. Unless there are some remarkable deals announced in the next several weeks, I will probably end up spending more on the graphics card and operating system than a home console; and I will still need a new motherboard, CPU, memory and hard-drive (and I should get a new power-supply and case, along with a new optical drive while I’m at it). I’m not even talking about anything remarkable or exotic, the cost of a Radeon HD5770 and the OEM version of Windows 7 will cost more than a Wii or XBox 360 arcade, and if you don’t get a good deal will cost you more than a PS3 or the good XBox 360.

Well actually all you'd need would be a prebuilt system with a decent quad core and an HD 5670 running a normal 1440/900 or so monitor.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16883147197

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161319

$610.

Unfortunately PC prices have gone up over the last 12 months it seems because a PC like this would have cost only $450 then...

Starcraft isn't taxing at all, it runs a DX9 pipeline. KOTOR: Online is an MMO and its probably not taxing either. There were many people running things like the HD 1900GT or whatever they call it and thats 4 generations old. You just have to set aside the desire to run everything on max settings.