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IGN tries to build a PC... Fail or Not

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I think that, by now, we know that IGN pretty much isn't capable to build a PC properly. Wasn't there also a PC Build Guide? 

Was by far the worst I've seen, they even suck more at building PC's than I do, haha

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I think that, by now, we know that IGN pretty much isn't capable to build a PC properly. Wasn't there also a PC Build Guide? 

Was by far the worst I've seen, they even suck more at building PC's than I do, haha

I build my pc after I give them quick dip in the dishwasher, heck I build the people next door pc out in the snow
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You can't spell ignorant without IGN...

Hah! 404 sides not found.

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I build my pc after I give them quick dip in the dishwasher, heck I build the people next door pc out in the snow

 

Is this going to be a contest on who's more stupid with building PC's? Okay! 

In my very first custom PC I forgot the Motherboard standoffs and fried my MoBo trying to turn it on. 

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Silly ign crew doesn't know the power of windows 8

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Is this going to be a contest on who's more stupid with building PC's? Okay! 

In my very first custom PC I forgot the Motherboard standoffs and fried my MoBo trying to turn it on.

I have never fried a mobo unintentionally
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I have never fried a mobo unintentionally

 

Well, I did :D 

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is it just me or are those FPS's ridiculously low for those graphics cards?  my best guess would be that the cpu is bottlenecking it...  but I wouldn't think that it would bottlenect a 770 that bad, maybe the 780Ti...  then again its only 3.3GHz ivy...

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because it is a last generation cpu with socket 1155 and so is the motherboard

 

remember core i5 3550 meaning third generation

Still,WHY Z77?

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I need new sides after reading the comments.

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ahh whatever they can do what they want i dont really care, honestly it looks like they have an aerocool case as their thumbnail.

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I'm not surprised from IGN but I'm not clicking on that link to give that site any more hits, I will take the OP's word for it. 

 

I stopped going to that site many moons ago because I feel the site overall lack integrity with what they put out.  Other than ignorance with things like this, they just seem to cater to publishers / corporations over gamers (yeah, I know, advertisement $$$ speaks)

I follow them on Facebook to see the flame wars they start.

 

And yah its pretty bad

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Still,WHY Z77?

Yah I know you can't put it to good use with that CPU

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Its not bad but I think they should have at least gotten a 3570K and Windows 8.

Yah i know the pc itself isn't god awful( well it kinda is), just the way they worked the pricing is god awful

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Anyone remember when gamespot tried this, and they ended up with some super ugly case, an sr-2 and some seriously tacky flashing ram?

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Seriously people? It's just a group of people making a computer. Yes, SteamBox isn't fully released, so yes it will have Windows. They aren't Origin/Dell and can't make a custom case and build. It's just something that they did and are now giving away. SO STOP CRYING ME A RIVER about it. You talk about the specs and how bad it is but reading these posts, majority of your builds are lesser quality. What makes you so special that you think you can be a dick and get away with it...

 

Calm down people. It doesn't harm you in any way. You can close the thread/page and breathe easy now. It's not going to eat you.

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That CPU.. I wasn't even aware of it's existence.

 

I don't think I have ever laughed so hard in my life but the sad part is the less informed among us will take IGN's machine here and build it without doing research and then when they find out that they could spend an extra bit on the processor...

 

Just ... all my facepalm.

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That CPU.. I wasn't even aware of it's existence.

 

I don't think I have ever laughed so hard in my life but the sad part is the less informed among us will take IGN's machine here and build it without doing research and then when they find out that they could spend an extra bit on the processor...

 

Just ... all my facepalm.

You made me facepalm.

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You made me facepalm.

 

Good to know.

 

 

I just think that anybody that can take IGN seriously anymore after the CoD reviews and constant CoD crap they pull is a blind fool. They have no place on the internet in my eyes.. at least as a "review and gaming" website.

 

If they rebranded as a terrible and uninformed advert company then sure, that would be fine with me.

 

Also the "presentation" skills of that guy .. that's the main thing that made me facepalm. Like seriously, that smile just ate my first born child that isn't even conceived yet.

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Still,WHY Z77?

 why not ? they are still a perfectly valid choice  and are only a year old 

destop cpus dont become obsolete for years, peope are still running an athalon black  or building computer with them and those are 5 year old cpus

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 why not ? they are still a perfectly valid choice  and are only a year old 

destop cpus dont become obsolete for years, peope are still running an athalon black  or building computer with them and those are 5 year old cpus

I was talking about the chipset,not the socket.

There's no point in getting a Z77 board for that CPU,you'd be way better off with a H77 or something similar.

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Well, at least they tried, rather than just endlessly perpetuating pro-console myths

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I was talking about the chipset,not the socket.

There's no point in getting a Z77 board for that CPU,you'd be way better off with a H77 or something similar.

fair

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I don't think this isn't that bad, i mean, the pc is.. But that isn't realy what matters here.

Whats happening is that IGN who are a big name for consol gamers is offering a pc.

A PC. And it will preform well, you could get more for that price but it will be a good pc.

So this way you'll maby get some ps or xbox people over to pc.

Whats wrong with that

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