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Re: New Computer Configuration
Here's a little story. About a year ago, I decided to build a computer. I got the parts; all nice stuff, a good graphics card, CPU, motherboard, RAM. Wonderful case. Cost around $1600 total. Put it together. Didn't work. RMA'd parts. Didn't work. Took it to a shop. Didn't work. All the costs put together, I've probably spent about $2000 on it.
I wanted a nice computer like this because my current computer was having troubles playing games. That paperweight has been sitting around for months now, completely useless, and you know what I've done? Got a nicer monitor and a $30 graphics card for my old computer. It's still a little slow, but it plays any game I can be bothered to throw at it.
If I wanted to get a new computer, I could get one that could play games and look beautiful for under $900. And it would be a laptop.
Trust me. If you want to have a great gaming setup, you're better off going with something low to mid range, and buying something new for it every so often. This also has the huge benefit of allowing you to buy things when they're on sale. For example, if you have 1GB of RAM, and then you see some insane deal on some 2GB sticks, you can buy two of them and have your 4GB. If you have a relatively meh card, and some vendor marks down their previous top-of-the-line model to make way for a new one, you can get the deal. If you don't do a ton of backup stuff, start with a modest hard drive, and by the time you need to upgrade to something large, you'll be amazed by how much storage prices have fallen.
Originally posted by Saphiera
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I wanted a nice computer like this because my current computer was having troubles playing games. That paperweight has been sitting around for months now, completely useless, and you know what I've done? Got a nicer monitor and a $30 graphics card for my old computer. It's still a little slow, but it plays any game I can be bothered to throw at it.
If I wanted to get a new computer, I could get one that could play games and look beautiful for under $900. And it would be a laptop.
Trust me. If you want to have a great gaming setup, you're better off going with something low to mid range, and buying something new for it every so often. This also has the huge benefit of allowing you to buy things when they're on sale. For example, if you have 1GB of RAM, and then you see some insane deal on some 2GB sticks, you can buy two of them and have your 4GB. If you have a relatively meh card, and some vendor marks down their previous top-of-the-line model to make way for a new one, you can get the deal. If you don't do a ton of backup stuff, start with a modest hard drive, and by the time you need to upgrade to something large, you'll be amazed by how much storage prices have fallen.
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