PC Closure :-)

Zed

Zed

Rogue Chimp
Ordered

So i opted for the following:

I5 3750
GTX 680
16GB ram
1TB drive
120GB SSD
DVD drive
Cosmos II Sport case

Why I5: the cost was spiralling and the choice boiled down to an I5 with GTX 680 or I7 with 670 and I felt the extra bucks were better thrown into the FX card.

to be honest my current pc is :

Intel Core 2 Q6600 2.4ghz
6GB ram
Radeon ATI 5750 1GB card

im figuring that the I5 will be soo much better than the current rig and the I7 multithread wouldnt have made a difference to playing MMO's and XCOM - i have a Macbook for sensible stuff.
 
Chick

Chick

Cartwheel RIGHT
the I7 multithread wouldnt have made a difference to playing MMO's and XCOM
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this is the truth.
my i5/gt555m laptop still plays most games comfortably on medium to high settings. its fine !
 
Artanix

Artanix

Full Member
I'm still rocking an i3 and HD5770, borderlands on max runs fine 1920x1080, I dont expect any problems with xcom either :)
 
Zeus

Zeus

Full Member
i've been considering a new graphics card (partly because my current one, a 5870, is 2/3 years old, depending on how you count, but MOSTLY because its not nvidea so doesnt do the physx stuff properly :p) - is the 680 GTX the way to go at the moment? if so, which manufacturers best atm?
 
Requiel

Requiel

PVC Love God
I bought a GTX670 for my recent beastmachine - this one to be precise.

I picked it for the low noise and the fact that it was about �150 cheaper than a GTX680. These days it looks as though the 680 is still around �100 dearer than a decent 670. There is a 680 version of the Gainward Phantom and, if it's as quiet as my 670 then I'd recommend that wholeheartedly.
 
Zed

Zed

Rogue Chimp
Its a prebuilt scan XS machine because, frankly, the hassle of building does not seem worth it to me.

The cost though for the full kit was �1364 to the door.
 
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Gottaa

Full Member
Let us know how it all goes, though I live in hope Valve releases a steam PC sooner rather than later to take all the hard work out of picking a gaming PC
 
Nymawae

Nymawae

Eternal Trial Member
Zed said:
Its a prebuilt scan XS machine because, frankly, the hassle of building does not seem worth it to me.

The cost though for the full kit was �1364 to the door.
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Good choice, my last 2 PCs have been Scan 3XS and they do a great job, real attention to detail and awesome "factory" overclocks :)
 
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Gottaa

Full Member
Oddly enough we did get Ella's brother a alienware pc one xmas and he's still using it now and all he's upgraded was the videocard after I think 2 years. My issue though is the price, I always hear from people how PC's are cheaper than Mac's and like for like looking at spec that 100% holds true, but once I start looking at specing out a PC for home it always ends up coming in at around the �1000 mark, which is I know a low spec iMac but it's still a good enough for me iMac and would play the games I want if duel booting to Win7.

I will bite the bullet at one point though if only for XCOM I just need to get over my "cheap PC" thing
 
Artanix

Artanix

Full Member
man, how do you guys spend more than �1000? lol

I think I upgrade my computer every 2 years (although this time its been 4 years due to moving house) I keep the case (Antec P182) and generally I always come in under �450-500. I can't think of a game I've had to lower the detail settings on for a long time. Granted I don't play crysis 2 constantly, but I'd be hard pushed to spend more than �800 on a comp. Most stuff out at the moment is giving extra power for the sake of sticking to their release schedule.
 
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Gottaa

Full Member
You build your PC though Art so are less limited, while I know Cad would build a PC for me if I bribe him with curry and cider, I'm always confused as hell about spec's of things, video cards, etc. For example I'd pay my 500 monies in a heartbeat for a PC which had written clearly on the side of it "Will play XCOM perfectly on top settings", but they don't that :(
 
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Gottaa

Full Member
Cad has offered, it was put on the back burner when I found out about Gnome Monks in WoW, but Steam keeps reminding me XCOM is released soon :D
 
Kegs

Kegs

With the Benedictine monks.
It still makes me sad inside to see that Dell logo on the alienware site. :(
 
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