My $7035 Gaming PC... (DVD, widescreen, 4GB, sound card)

[Jesse69]

Originally Posted by archineer

I don't know why he doesn't set up on his own as a consultant if he's a qualified engineer.

I'm not experienced enough to do Product Design consulting. I don't have a strong enough resume yet.

And I posted this thread to give an example of a good, well built PC gaming system and how much it would cost. Because too many time people talk about buying a good computer yet they don't want to spend much money on them. Back in the 90's people had to spend $2000+ to get a good computer.

[plwhit]

Originally Posted by Jesse69

And I posted this thread to give an example of a good, well built PC gaming system and how much it would cost.

BS...

Can you at least be truthful with us on your boasting (oops, I mean posting)?

You commiserated with someone (pointed out by jaypee in Post# 31 in this thread) and managed to bring up your 400 games and $7035 PC in that one too...

And you have brought up the $$$$ you have spent on your PC in other threads as well...

[Pruzhany]

Originally Posted by Jesse69

.... Back in the 90's people had to spend $2000+ to get a good computer.

In the 90's $2000 got you junk. Nearly everything was still on floppy disks and software on CD's were rare. Try $3000+ to get a name brand desktop computer with some actually good parts in it.

[NJGOAT]

Originally Posted by Jesse69

I'm not experienced enough to do Product Design consulting. I don't have a strong enough resume yet.

And I posted this thread to give an example of a good, well built PC gaming system and how much it would cost. Because too many time people talk about buying a good computer yet they don't want to spend much money on them. Back in the 90's people had to spend $2000+ to get a good computer.

I'm not going to get into the other arguments and your personality issues. What I will say is that to even REMOTELY suggest that someone needs to spend $7,000+ to get a "good computer" to play games is complete and utter BS. The VAST majority of the cost on your system is your monitor setup and the ridiculous amount of storage you have. If you did actually spend $7,000+ then the actual hardware portion (not counting all of the storage drives) of that build is less than a quarter of that.

My personal computer which is plenty fine for running most games at near maxed settings would cost UNDER $900 for EVERYTHING to build a similar system. Here is a representative build for what would be considered a "high end" gaming rig that is easily capable of playing ANY game maxed at 1080p+.

Prices are current as of 11/12 from TigerDirect:

CPU: i7-4770k = $340
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V PRO = $185
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance = $200
Video Card: Saphire Radeon 7950 3GB GDDR5 = $270
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB = $190
Storage HD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM = $100
Case: Fractal Design R4 = $105
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W Modular = $80
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper N520 = $38
Monitor: ASUS 23" IPS 2ms LED = $210
Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech Gaming Combo = $100
Blu-Ray Burner: LG 14x 3D = $70
OS: Windows 7/8.1 Pro 64-bit = $120

TOTAL = $2,008

That is for EVERYTHING soup to nuts to build a high end gaming rig that will run anything made today and for the next 2+ years without needing to change anything. If you want to get real crazy, you could double up the video cards, add two more monitors (all of which is completely unnecessary) and come out at $2,698. Like I said, your "$7,000 gaming rig" is complete bull since you spent so much money on things that are not actually related to the performance of your computer.

The above build would also be a "brag build" as even that is frankly completely unnecessary. I could build a very competent gaming rig for less than $1,000 all in as evidenced by the countless contests to build such rigs on sites like Tom's Hardware. Your build in NO WAY is representative of the cost or what constitutes a "high end" gaming rig.

[Skunk Workz]

Originally Posted by NJGOAT

I'm not going to get into the other arguments and your personality issues. What I will say is that to even REMOTELY suggest that someone needs to spend $7,000+ to get a "good computer" to play games is complete and utter BS. The VAST majority of the cost on your system is your monitor setup and the ridiculous amount of storage you have. If you did actually spend $7,000+ then the actual hardware portion (not counting all of the storage drives) of that build is less than a quarter of that.

My personal computer which is plenty fine for running most games at near maxed settings would cost UNDER $900 for EVERYTHING to build a similar system. Here is a representative build for what would be considered a "high end" gaming rig that is easily capable of playing ANY game maxed at 1080p+.

Prices are current as of 11/12 from TigerDirect:

CPU: i7-4770k = $340
Motherboard: ASUS P8Z77-V PRO = $185
RAM: 16GB Corsair Vengeance = $200
Video Card: Saphire Radeon 7950 3GB GDDR5 = $270
SSD: Samsung 840 EVO 250GB = $190
Storage HD: Seagate Barracuda 2TB 7200RPM = $100
Case: Fractal Design R4 = $105
Power Supply: Corsair CX 600W Modular = $80
CPU Cooler: Coolermaster Hyper N520 = $38
Monitor: ASUS 23" IPS 2ms LED = $210
Keyboard/Mouse: Logitech Gaming Combo = $100
Blu-Ray Burner: LG 14x 3D = $70
OS: Windows 7/8.1 Pro 64-bit = $120

TOTAL = $2,008

That is for EVERYTHING soup to nuts to build a high end gaming rig that will run anything made today and for the next 2+ years without needing to change anything. If you want to get real crazy, you could double up the video cards, add two more monitors (all of which is completely unnecessary) and come out at $2,698. Like I said, your "$7,000 gaming rig" is complete bull since you spent so much money on things that are not actually related to the performance of your computer.

The above build would also be a "brag build" as even that is frankly completely unnecessary. I could build a very competent gaming rig for less than $1,000 all in as evidenced by the countless contests to build such rigs on sites like Tom's Hardware. Your build in NO WAY is representative of the cost or what constitutes a "high end" gaming rig.

I couldn't agree more... I have three 27" 1080 monitors (primarily for work), a GTX 680, and two SSDs (again for work), all built around an Ivy Bridge based i7, and my entire rig was still under 3k. In single monitor mode I can run almost any game out there on Ultra settings, and in triple monitor mode I can run most on high or above.

[adyn]

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[ToucheGA]

Originally Posted by jaypee

My Dad paid $750 for a VHS VCR back in the 80's.

Blu-Ray players were $1,000+ when they were introduced several years ago. Now there are more than a fre decent ones for a around 15% of that price.

[jaypee]

Originally Posted by ToucheGA

Blu-Ray players were $1,000+ when they were introduced several years ago. Now there are more than a fre decent ones for a around 15% of that price.

Which is why bragging about how much you paid for technology is kinda lame ...

[ToucheGA]

Originally Posted by jaypee

Which is why bragging about how much you paid for technology is kinda lame ...

I assume you are referring to the OP. I have a low-end Blu-Ray player that I bought a couple of years ago.

[Epsilon5]

Originally Posted by plwhit

BS...

Can you at least be truthful with us on your boasting (oops, I mean posting)?

You commiserated with someone (pointed out by jaypee in Post# 31 in this thread) and managed to bring up your 400 games and $7035 PC in that one too...

And you have brought up the $$$$ you have spent on your PC in other threads as well...

In that picture it should say "You're boring," not "your boring." Justthought I'd point that out as being unable to tell the difference between "you're" and "your" is one of my pet peeves.

The rest of this thread really isn't worth commenting on.