| twesterm said:
I built my last PC in 2006 and guess what I could use for new PC? My DVD drive. Motherboard- worthless CPU- worthless Ram- worthless HDD- way too small Power supply- not enough Graphics card- couldn't dream of running anything The sad thing is when I built that PC in 2006 it was a really good PC. In three or four years when I update again I totally expect the same situation. Hell, my friend that bought a $3000 Alienware PC 2-3 years ago has to run games on the lowest settings today. Slightly off topic, but people keep telling me how much cheaper PC gaming is to get into but I just don't believe them. I could spend $250 in a year or two to upgrade my video card and I could spend another $100 at any time to get more ram. So in a year I could spend $350 to keep my PC current and probably have to do the same again in another year or two after that. So if I wanted to constantly game on my PC that's the $1000 initial build plus another lets be generous and say $400 over the next five years. That's not even counting software, monitors, and other accessories. |
Errr... how about your case? Buy a decent case and you can reuse that constantly. And you don't really need a PSU that much above 500W unless you run in SLI. I've always purchased a 500W minimum PSU.
The rest, yes, you'll need to upgrade.
As for the alienware PC, wtf? What's he done to it?!
