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If it was my pc selling to a mate, I’d say around £350-£400. It’s likely worth around £450-£500 imo.
@=XDC= wild egg tamer wrote:
That is an awesome set up, would love something similar but can’t stretch that far funds wise.
Been looking at these guys site today, seem to have reasonable prices but i’m so out of touch with all matters PC, i have no idea what is a good or bad gfx card; CPU etc!
Is it worth going for an i7 cpu or would an i5 suffice? I’ve been told the i7’s are only good for multithreading tasks such as video editing etc and have no influence on gaming quality. Is that right?
I may as well hold out for BF4, i was hoping it would be WW2 but it seems they’ve gone for modern yet again and i’m now missing gaming to the point i may as well give in and get back into it. Hopefully i will be able to get a rig that plays BF4 and possibly Arma3 at high or ultra res and will last me some time.
Generally speaking, for a specific gaming build around 1/3rd of your budget should be on the graphics card to optimize your performance. With graphics cards, you get what you pay for, but always check sites like tomshardware.co.uk for the benchmarks and see where you want to be for your money as the more money you spend give your reduced returns on performance.
Processor wise, you are totally right. An i5 is just as good as an i7 for games right now. I chose an i7 just for the video encoding. There is however a possibility in the future that games developers will pull their fingers out and start coding games to take advantage of hyperthreading etc.
I was going to wait for next gen cpu and gpu. Intels haswell processors are coming out next month but only show a 10% performance increase over ivybridge for what will likely be an inflated price so no point waiting there. Both Nvidia and ATI have pushed their next gen graphics launches back to 2014 so now is as good a time as any to buy.
To play the games you mention at ultra settings on a single screen of 24″ or below, will take no more than a single overclocked 670 GTX or 7970. Both retail for around £300. Then just pick up an overclocked i5 bundle for £400 a small SSD and some bits and bobs such as case and decent PSU and you will have a great PC.
The cost for me came getting 3 monitors and the hardware required to run it. If I was running a single monitor, I would have saved £300 on the 2nd GPU and £260 on a couple of monitors and that would have reduced the budget a decent bit.
If you’re looking for specific advice on components, feel free to PM me and I’ll sort you out.
@=XDC= wild egg tamer wrote:
lovely set up, what did that set you back?
Just over £2k. Got some accessories, like a nice force feedback steering wheel to play racing games with and ended up with some spare HDMI leads etc. I’m please with the end results, it’s a machine I’ve wanted to build for a few years but not been in a position to.
@xdc the doc wrote:
Crazy prices.
Thing is… you just know that they are going to bring out some premium bollocks a few months later for another 40 quid or so. 85 quid for a game nowadays?
That’s the exact reason I didn’t buy premium for BF3. It’s a shame so many people bought it because now EA have learned that they can milk their customers that way. The sales volume of the premium have pretty much guaranteed we will suffer the same shit for every battlefield game until EA goes under.
We have had so much fail in the last week or so, beautifully crowned last night with paddy attacking someone who was un-armed (apart from an axe) with an assault rifle and coming off worse. Then us all running to his rescue and you getting killed in friendly fire.
If nothing else, DayZ is a comedy gold mine.
I kind of gave up to be honest. In all my website adventures, maybe made around £1300 which isn’t too bad. Was a lot of work but at the end of the day, I learned a lot as well so not just financial gain.
I used to make a lot of websites as you know with junk articles. There are a lot of places that pay money for native English speakers to write junk articles with particular keyword densities on the most random subjects you can imagine. I can’t remember the sites as it was years ago, but they can pay a few £ per article so if you can knock maybe 5 out an hour, you could at least get by. Look into fivver.com and see if you can find a niche that you can fulfil. Some gigs sell by the thousands.
I use a razer tarantula keyboard, I’ve had it for years and it’s awesome. Not sure what you mean by “cherry mx reds” but the keys are mechanical and their pressure is just right. Not the quietest though.
