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Slimebeast on 23 June 2016
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Scisca said:
Slimebeast said:

Ahh, cool. I regret I didn't buy a case with a window. I love how cool they look!! Where you can see through and your PC parts emit nice lights.

So, u on purpose decided to run with integrated graphics for a little while in wait for a GPU you would feel good about? And now the RX 480 with its price/perf feels perfect? What was your last GPU then?

The window is cool, since I have LED lights on the motherboard, CPU watercooling, even the power supply and I've bought very sexy RAM modules (G.Skill Trident Z). I want the GPU to be the crowning element and I hope it'll match all other elements, since they do match each other.

Yes, that's exactly what I did. I've decided that 2-3 months won't hurt me since I have a lot of older games to play and I was right, since this iGPU is surprisingly good and runs all the games I want to play now at max settings. Right now I'm playing Witcher 1 with many mods and it works like a charm. Dawn of War 2 runs great as well, I'm downloading World of Tanks and I'll see how it works, I plan to play the Mass Effect Trilogy soon and try the Wii emulator out - I expect everything to run smoothly.

Previously I've used a laptop, didn't have a desktop PC at all, as I used to play on consoles. But I'm very happy I've returned to PC gaming.

 

Cool. Is this your first PC you built by yourself?

LED lights, watercooling, flashy looking RAM-sticks... sounds like you've put some money into this PC build. So naturally comes the question about GPU choice. With your budget, shouldn't you be aiming for the $500 price class?

It would be fun to hear how you reason about this, about budget, how much extra it's worth spending on "bling", and about balancing a system.