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Re: The future of Gaming? PC or Console? that's over $600 bud |
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 KrisnatharokCaveat EmptorPremium
join:2009-02-11
Earth Orbit
kudos:7 | And that's splurging on an OC'd 7850 2GB card. |
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 GhastlyonePremium
join:2009-01-07
Las Vegas, NV
kudos:2 | No OS.
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KrisnatharokCaveat EmptorPremium
join:2009-02-11
Earth Orbit
kudos:7 | Throw Linux and Steam on there, or drop the GPU to a 7770 and cut the HDD to 500 GB and add Win7.
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GhastlyonePremium
join:2009-01-07
Las Vegas, NV
kudos:2 | said by Krisnatharok:Throw Linux and Steam on there, or drop the GPU to a 7770 and cut the HDD to 500 GB and add Win7. Well there you go.
Basically, for ~700.00 you can have a pretty rockin little system. |
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with Kris direction in the last serveral months, I built my machine
then on my own I built my wife's machine... it was less than $400 with OS and it runs so fast
I'm itching to build another... for the living room... for netflix, hulu, skype, GW2, is there a way to pipe my office machine to the living room TV? or will the living room require a whole other machine? |
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KrisnatharokCaveat EmptorPremium
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Earth Orbit
kudos:7 | reply to Ghastlyone
I would call an i3-3210 / 8GB ram / 1TB HDD / Radeon 7850 2GB to definitely be a solid mid-grade gaming system.
It should be able to run anything on high details @ 1080p.
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 eksterHi there.
join:2010-07-16
Lachine, QC
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I've actually ended up building 2 PCs recently
One for the living room as an HTPC for about $600 that's a bit too powerful (I ended up playing Assassin's Creed and Mass Effect games on my big screen, was freaking awesome on 1080p.  ) that's also completely silent and blends in so well that people need me to get up and point with a finger at it before they realize it's actually a PC. Everyone just thinks that it's a DVD player.
Then I was lucky enough to have my PC fail a few months later and built a nice little beast for about $900...
I wish something else would now break or I could find a reason for another PC as I really want to build another one, but no excuse to do it. Those things are too damn fun to do.  |
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 ArchivisYour DaddyPremium
join:2001-11-26
Earth
kudos:18 | reply to Ghastlyone
You pay for your OS? |
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i think the budget for the living room pc would be $600... which I would promptly tell the wife cost 300 |
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eksterHi there.
join:2010-07-16
Lachine, QC
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| You can easily do less than $600 if it's just to watch movies. Mine is $600 and it plays Mass Effect 3 on full flawlessly with zero overheating and noise, plus I spent a bit extra for a case because my wife didn't want a computer in the living room, so I had to get something that would blend in well with the rest. |
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KrisnatharokCaveat EmptorPremium
join:2009-02-11
Earth Orbit
kudos:7 | I have an i3-550 with no dedicated video card in my HTPC. It streams and plays DVDs/blu-rays just fine. |
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it would also be for GW2, LoL, PoE, Marvel Heroes
thinking small tower, black, to match TV and entertainment center
it's also going to have to be wireless, i have no ethernet there |
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eksterHi there.
join:2010-07-16
Lachine, QC
kudos:1 | Sounds more or less like my box then. |
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