Buying a new Gaming PC

Professor S · 08-10-2011, 10:36 PM

While I appreciate all of the advice, you people are too fucking complicated.

How about this: I post the PCs I'm interested in, you you techno-people rate them in terms of value and running most games at max settings at 1920x1080 on the 23in monitor. Keep in mind, I need this to run MS Office for work as well.

Here is the one I'm leaning towards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883229253

Here is another I'm interest in with a better processor:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883229262

Does the i5 2500k processor enhance gaming on any significant level, or will the GPU and RAM do the real work?

TheSlyMoogle · 08-11-2011, 04:19 AM

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Originally Posted by Professor S

While I appreciate all of the advice, you people are too fucking complicated.

How about this: I post the PCs I'm interested in, you you techno-people rate them in terms of value and running most games at max settings at 1920x1080 on the 23in monitor. Keep in mind, I need this to run MS Office for work as well.

Here is the one I'm leaning towards:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883229253

Here is another I'm interest in with a better processor:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16883229262

Does the i5 2500k processor enhance gaming on any significant level, or will the GPU and RAM do the real work?

It's mostly your graphics card and RAM that are doing the real work with gaming.

I have been running AMD for years in my PCs and have never had a problem. To be really honest my roommate is running a PC with one of the i7 processors and I swear it takes him at least 30 seconds more to load everything in games.

I honestly couldn't justify spending an extra like 120 dollars on the second rig. I would say go for the first, but either one will be good for you probably for at least 4-5 years of gaming, maybe even more than that.

Your basic question is "Can it run Crysis 2?"

Yes. Yes it can. At maximum settings.

As for Microsoft office, you'll definitely be fine. Lol.

AND ALSO THIS:

http://www.gameranx.com/updates/id/2...ents-revealed/

TheSlyMoogle · 08-11-2011, 04:21 AM

Also for the arguments, I've used ATi cards for years and never had a problem. Usually any driver issues with games will be patched soon after the release within a couple of weeks at most.

Also the only games I've ever heard about issues with were usually games I definitely wasn't interested in (Such as Dirt 3)

TheSlyMoogle · 08-11-2011, 04:23 AM

Also for the arguments, I've used ATi cards for years and never had a problem. Usually any driver issues get fixed pretty quickly after games are released.

Also the only games I've ever heard about issues with were usually games I definitely wasn't interested in (Such as Dirt 3)

Professor S · 08-11-2011, 02:48 PM

Final question: The the $829 AMD build a good deal for a boutique gaming PC?

Vampyr · 08-11-2011, 07:12 PM

This thread has really reignited my desire to build a PC.

My Vaio of the past 2 years is still chugging along beautifully though. Can't really justify replacing it. I finally ran into a game I wanted to play that it couldn't handle, though, Just Cause 2, but I just turned the resolution down a notch and it ran fine.

Professor S · 08-11-2011, 11:09 PM

I ordered the AMD version and after ebates.com discounts and a promo code I basically got shipping for free. Thanks to everyone for their help.

KillerGremlin · 08-11-2011, 11:37 PM

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Originally Posted by Professor S

I ordered the AMD version and after ebates.com discounts and a promo code I basically got shipping for free. Thanks to everyone for their help.

Gives us updates yo.

Also I haven't seen such epic derailment in a thread in a long while. Good job guys!

Blix · 08-13-2011, 11:20 PM

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Originally Posted by KillerGremlin

Gives us updates yo.

Also I haven't seen such epic derailment in a thread in a long while. Good job guys!

That's the side effect of bringing the Ati or Nvidia debate to any thread.

TheSlyMoogle · 08-14-2011, 01:20 AM

Uhm about that static electricity thing with the motherboards, I've probably built about 15 computers now for myself and friends throughout the years since I graduated high school and I've never grounded myself and never had an issue with the motherboard.

Anyone else have any input?

manasecret · 08-12-2011, 12:28 AM

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Originally Posted by Professor S

I ordered the AMD version and after ebates.com discounts and a promo code I basically got shipping for free. Thanks to everyone for their help.

You shoulda priced the parts and built it yourself. Not a good price. And didn't even include an SSD drive at that price.

But I guess convenience trumps quality yet again.

Professor S · 08-12-2011, 09:38 AM

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Originally Posted by manasecret

You shoulda priced the parts and built it yourself. Not a good price. And didn't even include an SSD drive at that price.

But I guess convenience trumps quality yet again.

You underestimate my lack of confidence and skill, lol.

I did price the parts (on new egg), and I paid about $100 extra (part for part) to have the computer built by professionals for me instead of my fumbling ass putting it together. That $100 probably saved me half a day or more of cursing and stress. That's half a day I can spent fragging noobs or smoking cigars.

Also, it's 10 times the PC I would get for the same price at Best Buy.

Time is money, my friend. Also, not frying my MB with static electricity is a blessing as well...

manasecret · 08-13-2011, 08:56 AM

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Originally Posted by Professor S

You underestimate my lack of confidence and skill, lol.

I did price the parts (on new egg), and I paid about $100 extra (part for part) to have the computer built by professionals for me instead of my fumbling ass putting it together. That $100 probably saved me half a day or more of cursing and stress. That's half a day I can spent fragging noobs or smoking cigars.

Also, it's 10 times the PC I would get for the same price at Best Buy.

Time is money, my friend. Also, not frying my MB with static electricity is a blessing as well...

Lame excuses honestly which deprives you of very useful information and experience going forward in both life and career, but I understand and I am not free from making the same lazy choices. Every time I go to a mechanic, I wish I would just learn to do it myself. That is, if it isn't summer in Houston at the time. I don't have the will power to learn to fix my car in 100 degree weather.

(That's 100 degree temperature, btw, NOT heat index. Add 114% humidity to that... and that week long heat wave of mid-90 degree temperatures that hit the east awhile back can bite me. Houston IS a perpetual heat-wave.

)

Vampyr · 08-12-2011, 09:57 AM

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Originally Posted by manasecret

You shoulda priced the parts and built it yourself. Not a good price. And didn't even include an SSD drive at that price.

But I guess convenience trumps quality yet again.

I have an SSD at work, and one one hand I love the speed and snappiness of it.

On the other, they are much, much more prone to failure, and I live in constant worry it's going to die.

I think for a home PC I'd just go for a 7400 RPM drive. You'll also get a lot more space that way.

manasecret · 08-12-2011, 04:32 PM

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Originally Posted by Vampyr

I have an SSD at work, and one one hand I love the speed and snappiness of it.

On the other, they are much, much more prone to failure, and I live in constant worry it's going to die.

I think for a home PC I'd just go for a 7400 RPM drive. You'll also get a lot more space that way.

Eh I think the failure rates are overrated. Hard drives fail all the time, too. And you can put a hard disk at 10,000,000,000,000,000 RPM, and it will never match the latency of an SSD drive. The arm will always have to lurch over from spot to spot no matter the RPM. The beauty of SSD is in small, random read/writes, which is what makes using it so snappy.

And you get the SSD for the main local drive. Any other large programs and files go on the regular hard disk.