| JEMC said: @disolitude: I agree. However if you are getting a new PC it is hard not to go for the best you can get, not the one that suits you now. This way you are also putting to rest that little voice in your head that tells "your PC will be obsolete in one year". Personally I'm quite happy with my 750 but, although I play on a 1080p monitor, I'm thinking about upgrading my HD5850 to something better, maybe an HD7870 which gives me almost twice the performance and uses roughly the same power at load but, also very important for me, less power at idle. |
Yeah, I hear that. Its really hard to turn that voice off when building PCs.
But I've recently discovered another voice to building PCs. "Do it as cheaply as possible"
For example, NCIX had this Shuttle PC for 159 2 weeks ago - http://ncix.com/products/?sku=55947
I picked it up to build it for a friend who saw mine and said he wanted one too.
I slapped in 4GB of old DDR2 RAM, an old AM2+ dual core processor and since it only had a single slot PCIe 2.0 slot, I got him a XFX 7750 single slot.
We were playing Dirt 3 and Max Payne 3 at his house on it perfectly fine on a 1080p monitor. It cost me maybe 330 bucks tax in with a 60 GB boot SSD, DVD drive and 500 GB hard drive. (I had the CPU and RAM).
