I don't understand how the guy could spend £3k and only have 16GB RAM? Madness!

The problem with these scenarios boils down to what type of user profile do you cater for? The gamer, the video editing professional, the photographer, etc? All have different requirements, one might want a top of the range monitor and lots of RAM but not really be bothered about the graphics card or CPU for instance.

My gaming PC would cost about 2.2-2.3k if I needed to replace everything, guess the base unit alone would be around £1400-1500 but it isn't particularly high-end tbh, sub £200 CPU, 8gig ram,  SSD, decent mobo and soundcard, 400+ quid in graphics cards, I have a 27" monitor and gaming @ 2560x1440 needs quite a lot more GPU grunt over for example 1920x1200 to keep the frame rate over 60 with eye candy turned on.
It was put together with the aim of being reasonably quiet for a air cooled crossfire set up, rather than going for all out performance or value for money, so I spent quite a bit on the case and swapped out the standard case fans for Noctua's which bumped the price quite a bit.

A good gaming system to run on a single 1920x1080 monitor could be put together for well under £900 and IMO that would be good until the next gen of consoles comes out, as we will not see much in the way of improvements in graphics till then, that's with quality parts and not skimping at all, on a budget £500- 600 could build a very usable gaming machine.

Higher resolutions than 1920x1200, 3D or Eyefinty see's the price climb rapidly, if money was no object I would be running something like this:

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on May 21, 2012, 01:13:30 AM
I don't understand how the guy could spend £3k and only have 16GB RAM? Madness!

The problem with these scenarios boils down to what type of user profile do you cater for? The gamer, the video editing professional, the photographer, etc? All have different requirements, one might want a top of the range monitor and lots of RAM but not really be bothered about the graphics card or CPU for instance.

I think his GFX cards were like £600-700 a pot. He literally had gone through the build list and picked the most expensive things possible, and then done random things like not have the main installation drive be an SDD 

I would have thought that the different use PC's would be most important at the lower end of the budget, towards the high end all the technology and budget tends to merge back together?

Quote from: Shaun on May 21, 2012, 03:07:44 AM
Higher resolutions than 1920x1200, 3D or Eyefinty see's the price climb rapidly, if money was no object I would be running something like this:

that's what my nephew is running... 3 x 24inch screens in portrait and eye infinity at full HD and 2 cards in sli
(can't remember which screens, but they're nice dell ones)

looks horrible to me most of the time.... using windows like that just plain freaks me out... but he loves it

He loves it when he's looking at boobies on the internet


I guess you're right zpyder about the budget meeting any and all requirements at the high end, but definitely for the low and mid range you need to choose components wisely.

That looks crazy! Doesn't look like there is any lag and running a nice number of FPS..

On another note.. why don't they make force feed back mice and keyboards for PC gamers?

Cause it'd be bloody irritating?

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Haha, probably.. What about full body force feedback, so you knew where and from which direction you were being shot 

Thought there was a suit someone was already working on for that years ago.

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I'm sure they had it on The Gadget Show. Old link to the tech:

http://thefutureofthings.com/pod/6912/philips-force-feedback-jacket.html

I installed a £4.7k machine a month or so again, I think it was a HP workstation with that nutty intel CPU but I'm that ungeeky now I barely looked.

"Can't afford it so I'm not interested."


Here's one I can't fathom:
Windows 7 Pro: 192Gb
Server 2008 Std: 32Gb
SBS 2011: 32Gb.

The desktop o/s supports more RAM than the server o/s does unless you go enterprise..

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on May 21, 2012, 01:13:30 AM
I don't understand how the guy could spend £3k and only have 16GB RAM? Madness!

16Gb is the limit for 7 Home iirc.

Quote from: Pete on May 22, 2012, 21:39:08 PM

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on May 21, 2012, 01:13:30 AM
I don't understand how the guy could spend £3k and only have 16GB RAM? Madness!

16Gb is the limit for 7 Home iirc.

3 grand on a PC and he can't manage £150 for a Windows 7 Pro license?

Quote from: Pete on May 22, 2012, 21:39:08 PM

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on May 21, 2012, 01:13:30 AM
I don't understand how the guy could spend £3k and only have 16GB RAM? Madness!

16Gb is the limit for 7 Home iirc.

Home Premium too actually, which i'm disgusted by in all honesty as that information is nowhere to be seen on their sh*tty Anytime Upgrade either. You shouldn't have to buy a more expensive OS just to use the full amount of RAM your hardware is capable of. RAM is neither an expensive luxury or difficult to support as once you're on 64-bit the paging of RAM addresses is a total non-issue. Imagine if they stopped lesser versions of it working with SSDs or high end graphics cards instead?

Quote from: Clock'd 0Ne on May 22, 2012, 22:27:00 PM
Imagine if they stopped lesser versions of it working with SSDs or high end graphics cards instead?

What like DX10 on XP?

To be fair 8gigs is enough for 95% of dedicated gaming comp at the moment and 16 gigs would have been overkill when 480's where the top of the line cards which Im guessing is when it was built?

Today the top of the line 1366 boards have quad channel, so 16gig would be worth going for now as 4x4gig sticks are not so bad price wise, it would be further proofing more than anything else. The most I have seen used by a single game on my system was SWTOR it used just over 4 gig's, but that game's engine was a buggy POS.