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Post by motherface
Seriously at this point if you pay more than ~$1000 for a desktop PC you may as well just light money on fire.
Here's a random desktop, you can put a 3 GHz Xeon in it
http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/ ... sion-t1600" target="_blank
16 gigs ram for < $200.
http://www.crucial.com/store/mpartspecs ... BAA5CA7304" target="_blank
You can certainly spend more, but why?
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Post by Venkmen
I am about to upgrade mine and I will spend less than $500.
I am going to use my current gfx card (nVidia GTX460, it still plays everything I want perfectly), new mobo and proc, new memory and new SSD. I have a couple of cases laying around. I may upgrade my PSU. The one I have is 4 years old so it couldn't hurt.
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Post by aviger
Although alienware/origin are crazy expensive you cannot build a top of the line system like that under 1000.
Just a geforce 590 (not even the top of the line 690 right now) is at least 600$
Add in a good water cooling system and raid ssd's and your easily over 1500$
Now granted that is if you want to play current games at top reso's on a 30inch like me and not have to buy another system for at least 3 years.
Under a 1000 and your looking at not top reso's, not super video editing and prolly a new one in a year or 2.
All depends on your needs (and yes, editing photo's and videos of drunk sluts requires all that dammit)
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Post by motherface
Well, if you are editing video, I dunno. But you don't "need" to play max FPS max everything max resolution. Maybe it makes you feel special to do so, maybe you want to do so, but you sure don't need to. You can play at 100% everything for $5000, or you can play 85% everything for $1000, or you can play 65% everything for $500.
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see also
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diminishing_returns" target="_blank
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Post by Venkmen
Most people play at 1920x1080 on a 23" monitor now days. My two generation old GTX460 plays at that just fine on max settings. The only reason I have any issues at all is my read write speeds of my jank HDD. Upgrading to an SSD will make all the differences in the world. I am going to step up from my Core2Duo while I'm at it.
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Post by Luturb
motherface wrote:
Well, if you are editing video, I dunno. But you don't "need" to play max FPS max everything max resolution. Maybe it makes you feel special to do so, maybe you want to do so, but you sure don't need to. You can play at 100% everything for $5000, or you can play 85% everything for $1000, or you can play 65% everything for $500.
But then you won't be able to walk around telling people who don't give a shit how cool your computer is.
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