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Ars Technica has published a new "Bargain Box Guide" for April 2014. As I'm looking through this I poked my nose over at Tom's hardware System Builder, Q1 2014: The $750 Gaming PC. Am I completely off my rocker? How do either of these qualify as a "budget build?"
I can consistently build systems (without monitors or OS) for far less that these systems and get a quality build that will work for several years of service. Am I just cheap or have I just been broke for too long and can't fathom the expense?
Do you still build systems or have you only purchased factory built units? How would you approach your design differently?
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(Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Tuesday April 08 2014, @01:03AM
See, a great gaming rig can be built from 2nd and third generation components. An older i7, a nice dual GTX580, An SSD and a large storage drive. RAM is a trivial cost now, max that shit out.
Will it run Batman at max res with every bell and whistle turned on?
Actually, yes. My single GTX580m does that flawlessly. Much of the performance gain lately is purely on paper. Who gives a rat's ass if you get 63FPS instead of 60FPS when it cost you another $1000 to get there? Fuck that noise, I will wait until your dumb ass sells your brand spanking new GTX780Ti for the GTX781Ti next month, and snake yours off EBAY for a song.
In fact, I love people like that- got more money than sense. Keeps me in decent hardware on the cheap.
let's see, I may consider an upgrade in another year or so, when a new game comes out that actually exceeds my existing 2 year old rig's capabilities. If I like that game, that is.
(Score: 1) by emg on Tuesday April 08 2014, @04:42AM
"RAM is a trivial cost now, max that shit out."
32GB of decent 1600MHz RAM looks to be over $300 now (whereas I believe I only paid $110 for it when I built my gaming PC early last year). I wouldn't call that 'trivial'.
(Score: 2) by Nobuddy on Wednesday April 09 2014, @05:44AM
I was unaware it had gone up again. I stand corrected. As of about a year and a half ago it was about $.02 per petabyte, or thereabouts.