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darconi on 08 July 2008
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Garcian Smith said:
greenmedic88 said:
It's a pain in the ass to the average gamer who just wants to play games. Hence, the success of consoles in today's gaming market.

Some are clearly in the category of life long PC hobbyists who have as much fun sourcing parts, assembling a build and then overclocking and optimizing performance, but going under the assumption that "everyone" who wants a budget gaming PC can do this is just unrealistic.

If I had to make a wild shot in the dark, I'd say low single digit percentages of computer users actually have even the remedial tech kung fu required to source, build and optimize a PC.

It's a stupid argument really.

My point exactly. By the time you research how to build the thing, price out components, pay extra to have them shipped, spend a ton of time unpacking, assembling, and hooking up everything, installing the OS, debugging and troubleshooting to optimize performance, and overclocking the processor, you've easily spent a lot more money in opportunity cost than you might think. Some people gain enjoyment out of it, but for the vast majority of us who just want to play games, it's not worth it.

Opportunity cost is a pathetic argument for this crowd.  You're posting on a gaming forum, hardly constructive either.  Learning how to build computers is much better since you're saving yourself a lot of money and having a good computer as well as making money by having others pay you to build a computer.

Learning how to do something is the opposite of the opportunity cost argument.  Posting randomly on a gaming forum with no purpose however fits your opportunity cost argument.