| DigitalDevilSummoner said:
No, it's not wrong (at least not completely, since it was a top-of-my-head estimation) you do need some frequent upkeep, quite simply because your assumption that the average gamer has an i5 2500K CPU or an HD7870 is completely groundless and based on steam's statistics inaccurate. That's not widely adopted hardware. You insist on having a restricting definition of what the average gamer is just because it suits your argument. HD4870 and GTX260 are 2008 cards, also over 200$ and will ONLY give a frame rate at high settings again on the baseless assumption that average gaming joe has 8GB ram and a quad-core CPU. You need constant upkeep because you always need the package, CPU, GPU, RAM. (the CPU is less critical of course but at least a quad core at this point is required)
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I'm sorry but I don't get your view here, anyone who games on PC would do as he suggested and go for the highest specs possible with their budget whether building it or buying a PC even an average PC gamer otherwise they wouldn't be gaming on PC, his example about the i5 from what I understand doesn't mean he's saying that's what people will have but that's the ball park people will aim for. The GPU in my current PC cost me 60 quid in a store we have in the UK called maplin who do special offers and sales on PC hardware all the time (they frequently have bundle deals like cases, motherboards, CPU and power supply together) and they're not the only ones, most people build over a period of time so they don't pay one lump sum as well.
In the PC I'm building now I'm doing just like he said by going for an i series CPU etc... he's not that far off with his statement.
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