TheMechEngineer

The rocket is a structure.
And it failed as a structure.
Structure + Failure = Structural Failure.
You can do simple maths, right?

He need that e-peeni

It's also proven they will run better on a Core i7 5960x.
Or NASA's Pleiades supercomputer.
Or God's personal desktop.
You get the picture.

Not you again. Sigh

Buying a high-end sound card.
Yeah, maybe the sound is better, but is it worth $200? No way.

I already know people are going to jump the gun here and say that anything less than 1080p is garbage, or "too casual", but it's something that generally bugs me about the PC Gaming community that I feel like asking now. Is it really all that bad, especially for casual gamers?
So, let me take a step back for a minute. I'm definitely not a "casual" gamer by even my own standards. I have an expensive rig that I really like with a 4690k and a GTX 970, I'm personally not slouching in the hardware department, but I justify spending over $1,000 on my computer because I find it a fun hobby I can get satisfaction in, I use it for more than just games (I'll be it, not much more), and because I use it so often it was well worth the expenses. What about a more "casual" gamer though, who doesn't like consoles? Or just someone who likes PC Gaming, but their on a really tight budget? Sure everyone wants a 5960X with dual 980 Ti's, but a responsible person with low income isn't gonna blow all their money like that. Yet everyone who talks about PC Gaming really degrades anything less than 1080p, 60fps.
I know that there is a standard as far as the community goes with modern game developers. If you're game can't run on mid range to high end hardware at 1080p 60 FPS, it's either not well optimized or too graphically demanding to be consumer friendly (usually the first one though). I also understand that's the reason consoles get so ragged on is because their terriblely underpowered for today's day in age. The prices have dropped to something much more reasonable, but because the damage has already been done it is still an unappealing purchase for the smart consumer. However I see people taking this standard used by developers, and push it to be a community standard. As in, if you're system doesn't run 1080p, you didn't spend enough money on it, or spent money on certain hardware that didn't improve performance (ex: buy 64gb of ram, but you only got a GTX 960, that's generally not a good decision for part picking). Does it really matter though?
Generally speaking I understand the point in having these high standards from the PC Gaming community. It influences the hardware manufactures and game developers in a positive way by making the hardware more powerful for less cost, or just developing better optimized games.
I guess my real point that I'm trying to get at is would the more casual PC gamer be considered outcasted for owning a rig like this: http://pcpartpicker.com/p/78yT23
No, its not fancy AT ALL. It actually sucks, but it's a capable system for 720p Gaming (or even lower) if all you want to do is play games on your computer and nothing much else. It's not meant to do 1080p 60fps with maxed out settings, but it could still play games, and that's really what matters to some people, and honestly is what deters console gamers from moving over to PC Gaming. The system alone is about the same price as a current "next gen" console, but it can still deliver an experience thats more enjoyable because of the benefits of PC Gaming. People are generally correct when they say that PC Gaming is expensive because that's what everyone keeps making it out to be as. Everyone likes to pull the "but look at this budget PC" argument whenever their talking about the price of PC Gaming, but most of those people (from what I see) own $1,000+ rigs and have never even thought about Gaming at lower resolutions just because it "doesn't look as good".
LinusTechTips actually did a video I remember seeing maybe 2 or 3 years ago where Linus showed the difference in price to performance on the extremely low end side of graphics cards vs something $20-$30 more expensive, which he was in fact correct on his stance when he made the video, but does it really matter all that much? If you're OK with Gaming at lower resolutions, do you really need a GTX 970 then, or even a 960? You could go as low as a 750 Ti and the casual consumer probably won't notice the difference. I really want to know what people think about this. Am I the only one who thinks its ok to own a cheap system and not game at 1080p? Or is the difference really so drastic for some people (maybe because we can actually tell the difference?) that anything less is rubbish?
I guess as a closing statement I'll say that my family owns a 480p television and a 720p television and they can't tell the difference in picture quality between the two. They can see the difference between 60 and 30 FPS, but the differences in resolution don't phase them at all because they just want something "good enough". Even I run videos on my phone at 480p when I'm using 4G service just because I honestly don't see much of a difference between that and 1080p, it just saves me on data usage. I CAN tell the difference, its just not a significant enough one in my opinion to make me enjoy whatever video I'm watching with less satisfaction. This is where I got the thought for this topic from.

My late Christmas presents will be a Cryorig R1 Universal CPU cooler and Samsung 850 Evo 250GB SSD.
Just waiting on getting credited for a different item I returned.

When it comes to health-based New Age beliefs, science gets completely thrown out the window.
Nothing but a load of myths, legends, claims and general nonsense that can't be trusted.

The original video here was an advertisement made by some retarded company that wants to rip off gamers, by trying to sell the most basic cleaning gear (branded as 'gamer gear') at astronomical prices.
 
ORIGINAL ADVERTISEMENT

 
Here's where it gets good. This Youtube guy did a reaction video below that really hit the nail on the head, and it cracks me up every time I watch it.
 
REACTION

 
Enjoy!

ohhhh Mister Amazing! Got a new video for your cringe compilations!

i did, then went ahead and ignored half the comments and spent 300-400 eztra for nothing

Lower that ti like 3-3.5, hard to explain though I found Mc to run the best at around 3-3.5 allocated

Turn VSync off and dial up the framerate to Unlimited, if you haven't.

They are NOT worth their price tag. (I don't even know how much the cost or what they sound like)
 
With beats, you are buying the brand.

I mean here this guy probably is looking at 720p

Do you really think that someone in their right mind would try gaming at 1080p with a Core 2 Duo?

Yeah, well if the Core i7 is a reasonable price then it should be fine. But if there's a massive price difference between the Core i5 and Core i7 then the Core i5 is always the pick for the higher value for gaming.

Gather 'round everyone, it's story time.
 
So I'm driving into the local shopping centre carpark and and this crazed teenaged bitch as high as a kite comes tearing around the corner from the left in front of me without looking.
Literally she's going like 60kmh (40mph) and her eyes are so wide you can see the whites of her eyes, and she was swearing out loud.
Bitch cuts right in front of me at the limit of adhesion (I had right-of-way, mind you), swings around my nose barely missing me, and has so much lock on that she swings around too much and scrapes the side of her car along the right rear of mine, while I'm laying on the horn.
And drives off without even thinking to stop.
Luckily I'm a friggin' ninja and got her number plate, but it felt like someone had kicked me in the teeth when I saw the massive paint scrape mark along the right-rear corner.
After I finally get home and finish dealing with insurance/police calls, I search her number plate on the government website.
Come to find out that her number plate is illegal, because a different car is linked to that set of licence plates (and I definitely got the right number plate details).
 
My car has never even had a single scrape over it's whole lifetime (8 years), so I'm real pissed off that the first battle scar is from a drugged-up, lower socio-economic teenage bitch who most likely doesn't have a legal licence, any rego or insurance.
 
EDIT: Wrong section, this can be moved. Great day huh!

Gather 'round everyone, it's story time.
 
So I'm driving into the local shopping centre carpark and and this crazed teenaged bitch as high as a kite comes tearing around the corner from the left in front of me without looking.
Literally she's going like 60kmh (40mph) and her eyes are so wide you can see the whites of her eyes, and she was swearing out loud.
Bitch cuts right in front of me at the limit of adhesion (I had right-of-way, mind you), swings around my nose barely missing me, and has so much lock on that she swings around too much and scrapes the side of her car along the right rear of mine, while I'm laying on the horn.
And drives off without even thinking to stop.
Luckily I'm a friggin' ninja and got her number plate, but it felt like someone had kicked me in the teeth when I saw the massive paint scrape mark along the right-rear corner.
After I finally get home and finish dealing with insurance/police calls, I search her number plate on the government website.
Come to find out that her number plate is illegal, because a different car is linked to that set of licence plates (and I definitely got the right number plate details).
 
My car has never even had a single scrape over it's whole lifetime (8 years), so I'm real pissed off that the first battle scar is from a drugged-up, lower socio-economic teenage bitch who most likely doesn't have a legal licence, any rego or insurance.
 
EDIT: Wrong section, this can be moved. Great day huh!

Well that's messed up.

It is a tragedy, that's why it's so sickening when everyone on social media is making a big song and dance about it, just to gain more attention.

Some bombs went off in Paris and killed some people, so now social media is exploding it way out of proportion.

I had a Pentium E5300 and overclocked it past 3.0GHz, but I replaced it in favor of a Core 2 Duo E8400 and currently running a 4.0GHz overclock.
The quad core versions are poor overclockers and so you won't get the massive bang-for-buck if you're into tweaking.

No, you'd probably need a GTX 960 or GTX 970 before bottlenecks start becoming obvious.