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Skyve · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 7328 **Location:** Canada

Wtf is an OK Gaming PC lol? You either run shit or you don't. :sohappy:

Avalanche · **Joined:** Jan 2006 **Posts:** 3606 **Location:**

Exactly. Buying a budget gaming PC is beyond stupid. Why pay money for a desktop that has an OK set-up that plays games today on normal? It will will be obsolete in like a year, then you will be back in the same dilemma of not being able to play current games.

Gaigemasta · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 4474 **Location:**

A budget gaming pc consists of mid-low range hardware BUT is highly upgradable to high-end or newer hardware

Avalanche · **Joined:** Jan 2006 **Posts:** 3606 **Location:**

Yeah it is upgrade-able but in the end you'll be paying for the original parts PLUS upgrades. That will cost you boatload more. If you want to do it right, save the proper amount then pull the trigger or else you'll be paying 1.5x the amount over a longer period of time.

Gaigemasta · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 4474 **Location:**

that's the issue though, people don't have that money now, and don't want to get a loan just for a gaming pc

Avalanche · **Joined:** Jan 2006 **Posts:** 3606 **Location:**

They don't need a loan they just need to save. It takes me more than a year to scramble enough cash for a new pc.

I spent $950 on my new rig, and it is faster than 3+ of those budget $500 machines. You just need to shop around, wait for deals, save more cash.

Tasdik you located in the US?

Gaigemasta · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 4474 **Location:**

I hope your $950 computer is better than a $500 computer

I would been impressed if you said your $450 was better (which isn't hard) but yah..

Again, some people choose best of both, save some and spend some.

Avalanche · **Joined:** Jan 2006 **Posts:** 3606 **Location:**

Sorry let me rephrase that, this computer is 3 times+ faster than those budget gaming PCs

Skyve · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 7328 **Location:** Canada

Avalanche wrote:

Sorry let me rephrase that, this computer is 3 times+ faster than those budget gaming PCs

There's so many variables that can affect your "speed", you wouldn't really know. :yay:

Avalanche · **Joined:** Jan 2006 **Posts:** 3606 **Location:**

I'm just going off tomshardware comparisons and cpubenchmark.net comparisons.

Lets see here, a "budget" pc around $600 would have an Intel i3, MAYBE an i5 but a low model. The gfx card would be around an nVidia 520 or ATI 6670, probably around 4-6gb of RAM. That computer is meh at best..

For $300ish more than that budget PC I got an i7 2600k, 16GB of ram, 2TB harddrive, 600W OCZ power supply, and an ATI 6850.

M3K0S · **Joined:** Aug 2008 **Posts:** 1580 **Location:**

lol gaige 100 dollars for w7

Gaigemasta · **Joined:** Dec 2006 **Posts:** 4474 **Location:**

Some people like Windows 7 better than Linux

dom · **Posted:** Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:08 pm

From what I experienced, may no longer be the case as it's been a while:

The price of hardware drops pretty quick. You can buy a budget gaming PC that will perform perfectly fine for now (~$500), and in 2 years upgrade (~$300) and outperform a gaming pc built now for $1000.

There's a level of hardware somewhere between out dated and brand new that has a really high performance/cost ratio. I try to surf this line and upgrade once parts fall into this range.

A top performance GFX card will cost a lot now. I can buy an older but good GFX card now and a medium performance GFX card in 2 years; combined both will be cheaper than buying that expensive one now and outperform it when upgraded.

For me it's about spending a couple hundred every year to have a PC that runs games on high; rather than spending a thousand every couple years to have a PC that runs games on very-high (for a year or two), then drop to medium until I have another thousand to blow.

Disclaimer: I bought a $2800 iMac that I use as a monitor for my PC. I may not be the best person to give advice on getting value for money.

Majorharper · **Posted:** Fri Apr 13, 2012 1:33 pm

dom wrote:

From what I experienced, may no longer be the case as it's been a while:

The price of hardware drops pretty quick. You can buy a budget gaming PC that will perform perfectly fine for now (~$500), and in 2 years upgrade (~$300) and outperform a gaming pc built now for $1000.

There's a level of hardware somewhere between out dated and brand new that has a really high performance/cost ratio. I try to surf this line and upgrade once parts fall into this range.

A top performance GFX card will cost a lot now. I can buy an older but good GFX card now and a medium performance GFX card in 2 years; combined both will be cheaper than buying that expensive one now and outperform it when upgraded.

For me it's about spending a couple hundred every year to have a PC that runs games on high; rather than spending a thousand every couple years to have a PC that runs games on very-high (for a year or two), then drop to medium until I have another thousand to blow.

Disclaimer: I bought a $2800 iMac that I use as a monitor for my PC. I may not be the best person to give advice on getting value for money.

MON PERE YER RICH TABARNAK!

(please tell me you get that joke) if not i'll send you a link xD

Skyve · **Joined:** Apr 2006 **Posts:** 7328 **Location:** Canada

Majorharper wrote:

dom wrote:

From what I experienced, may no longer be the case as it's been a while:

The price of hardware drops pretty quick. You can buy a budget gaming PC that will perform perfectly fine for now (~$500), and in 2 years upgrade (~$300) and outperform a gaming pc built now for $1000.

There's a level of hardware somewhere between out dated and brand new that has a really high performance/cost ratio. I try to surf this line and upgrade once parts fall into this range.

A top performance GFX card will cost a lot now. I can buy an older but good GFX card now and a medium performance GFX card in 2 years; combined both will be cheaper than buying that expensive one now and outperform it when upgraded.

For me it's about spending a couple hundred every year to have a PC that runs games on high; rather than spending a thousand every couple years to have a PC that runs games on very-high (for a year or two), then drop to medium until I have another thousand to blow.

Disclaimer: I bought a $2800 iMac that I use as a monitor for my PC. I may not be the best person to give advice on getting value for money.

MON PERE YER RICH TABARNAK!

(please tell me you get that joke) if not i'll send you a link xD

Funny thing is that he made even more money from the video going viral. He started selling t-shirts and stuff.

Love · **Joined:** Nov 2007 **Posts:** 5336 **Location:**

Avalanche wrote:

They don't need a loan they just need to save. It takes me more than a year to scramble enough cash for a new pc.

I spent $950 on my new rig, and it is faster than 3+ of those budget $500 machines. You just need to shop around, wait for deals, save more cash.

Tasdik you located in the US?

A budget pc is a machine that can play everything somewhere around high today and medium in around 2 years. Low end, as the name suggests has cheaper parts that are placeholders for future upgrades; high end, can be pretty much described as sli, crossfire, ssd, raid, audio card, water cooling, my penis is this big ( insert huge amount ).

Also, no, your 1k machine isnt 3 times faster than a machine around 600 bucks which is the more proper budget build range, you're silly.

Toshiharu · **Joined:** Feb 2008 **Posts:** 4222 **Location:** Nowhere

dom wrote:

From what I experienced, may no longer be the case as it's been a while:

The price of hardware drops pretty quick. You can buy a budget gaming PC that will perform perfectly fine for now (~$500), and in 2 years upgrade (~$300) and outperform a gaming pc built now for $1000.

There's a level of hardware somewhere between out dated and brand new that has a really high performance/cost ratio. I try to surf this line and upgrade once parts fall into this range.

A top performance GFX card will cost a lot now. I can buy an older but good GFX card now and a medium performance GFX card in 2 years; combined both will be cheaper than buying that expensive one now and outperform it when upgraded.

For me it's about spending a couple hundred every year to have a PC that runs games on high; rather than spending a thousand every couple years to have a PC that runs games on very-high (for a year or two), then drop to medium until I have another thousand to blow.

Disclaimer: I bought a $2800 iMac that I use as a monitor for my PC. I may not be the best person to give advice on getting value for money.

My GTX295 is still growing strong. $500 like 3 years ago. I still max out most games at 1920x1200 though so can a 560ti or the better AMD version. I haven't put attention to video cards since well.. I can still max it.

Disclaimer: I regret buying a 295 at the time. I don't regret my purchase, but I regret waiting for the next series.

dom · **Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 3:03 am

Majorharper wrote:

dom wrote:

From what I experienced, may no longer be the case as it's been a while:

The price of hardware drops pretty quick. You can buy a budget gaming PC that will perform perfectly fine for now (~$500), and in 2 years upgrade (~$300) and outperform a gaming pc built now for $1000.

There's a level of hardware somewhere between out dated and brand new that has a really high performance/cost ratio. I try to surf this line and upgrade once parts fall into this range.

A top performance GFX card will cost a lot now. I can buy an older but good GFX card now and a medium performance GFX card in 2 years; combined both will be cheaper than buying that expensive one now and outperform it when upgraded.

For me it's about spending a couple hundred every year to have a PC that runs games on high; rather than spending a thousand every couple years to have a PC that runs games on very-high (for a year or two), then drop to medium until I have another thousand to blow.

Disclaimer: I bought a $2800 iMac that I use as a monitor for my PC. I may not be the best person to give advice on getting value for money.

MON PERE YER RICH TABARNAK!

(please tell me you get that joke) if not i'll send you a link xD

HEY! C'EST QUOI TON NOM, TOI?

Majorharper · **Posted:** Sat Apr 14, 2012 3:21 am

YES! YES YES YES THANK GOD hahahahaha

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