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HappySqurriel on 24 July 2010
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ssj12 said:
HappySqurriel said:
shio said:

Your views really are outdated when you think that you need a $1500 PC to play games. Nowadays you can get a GOOD Gaming PC for only $400.

95% of PCs being sold are now under $1000, with most of them also under $750.

Today, $1000 will net you an EXCELLENT GAMING PC!!

My 2003 PC was almost able to play Starcraft 2, 2010's Biggest Game.

You should get yourself updated.


Please show me this magical PC build for $400 that I won't need to replace with a new $400 system in 12 to 18 months. Be sure to include a motherboard, memory, cpu, graphics card, audio card (although I will accept onboard audio), hard-drive, case, power-supply and licenced version of Windows. Show me benchmarks that will lead me to believe that this system will handle a game like Starwars: The Old Republic above minimum settings and above 800x600 when a guild decides to have a 100 man raid in the zone you're playing in.

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ComboBundleDetails.aspx?ItemList=Combo.448444

then

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161342

 

id kind of recommend breaking the 400 limit a touch and uping the GPU a bit, otherwise this is a really decent system that will get you somewhere for a little while. only thing I cant give you here is the OS. But honestly an OS should live on one a system a few years with upgrades to the system over the years. Normal OS should live 4 - 5 years on a system before upgrading unless there is a massive benefit to upgrading OSs before at least a SP2 for the future OS (Windows 8).

Yes, but when you add the operating system that system you built is (probably) going to break $500; and I highly doubt that system will handle most new PC games in 18 months.

Realistically, in order for a system you buy today to last 5 years it will need to be able to achieve results similar to next generation consoles. While I doubt that they will push the limits to the same extent as the previous generation consoles did, and I think that similar hardware is on the market, the 4 year old motherboard and processor with a very low end GPU will not satisfy that.

 

I’m not trying to bash PC gaming, I’m just pointing out that it is still much more expensive than console gaming because you either spend the money to have a system that will last 5 years or you regularly spend money to upgrade your system. While this isn’t in reference to anyone on here, this is the point in a generation where most PC gamers become morons because they see PCs which are more capable than the consoles for $500, and they forget that that same system was far more expensive when those consoles were released; and they forget to consider that the next generation of consoles is 12 to 18 months from starting. I saw the same mentality at the end of the SNES generation, again at the end of the Playstation generation, and it was happening at the end of the PS2's generation.