Scoobes said:
twesterm said:
That's a load of crap. I'm sorry, but it is.
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.
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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?!
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I missed the case, whoops. I could have reused that (though I didn't because I don't like my old case and my current was $30-50 I believe). The power supply I had wasn't big enough for the graphics card I have now. My old one is 600 and my current is 850. I will never ever skimp on the power supply considering I've had two crap out on me (and one of those even start smoking).
As for the Alienware PC, no idea, I just know he complains that he typically has to run new games on their lowest settings to get good frame rate.
