Amazing Satire

[zappian]

http://andovercg.com/services/waste-money-on-gaming-computer.shtml
 
I loled.
AT LEAST I HOPE THIS PERSON ISN'T SERIOUS.
A little snippet.
 

GAMING COMPUTERS: HOW TO WASTE MONEY ON A GAMING COMPUTER
Forget style, set aside bragging rights. High-end game PCs are massive overkill at stratospheric prices.
If all you want is to brag to your buddies that's okay. Just remember: Six months or so you'll have to lay out thousands of dollars or someone else will pass you.And it is thousands of dollars. $5000 is common for a 'high end' game PC. Some of them go for $10,000 or more. Some graphics cards cost over $1500 and even fancy cases can cost $300.

 

That's why a lot of gamers go with a $400 game console rather than a $4000 gaming computer. That's hurting the PC game market, which still hasn't gotten back to the level it hit in 2004 .

You probably don't need the frame rate these machines produce either. A $600 graphics cards can crank out frame rates of 50 or 75 or even more. But you've grown up looking at frame rates of 30 frames a second or less. Movies are only 24 fps. Generally 30fps is all you need for a game.

$10,000 'God boxes' may be great for the computer makers, but they hurt the gaming industry. Not to mention what they do the poor gamers who buy them.

[Tim Drake]

This was on PCMR.

 

I'm disappointed in you..

 

How do I know?...

 

What?.. Shut up..

[zappian]

This was on PCMR.

 

I'm disappointed in you..

 

How do I know?...

 

What?.. Shut up..

 

How do you know that eh

[Yummychickenblue]

 "Some graphics cards cost over $1500 and even fancy cases can cost $300."'

 

Well they're not wrong.

[Tim Drake]

How do you know that eh

SHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH STOP TALKING

[Kyuubixchidori]

 "Some graphics cards cost over $1500 and even fancy cases can cost $300."'

 

Well they're not wrong.

lol its true. 

 

something people need to remember though, some people actually prefer 30fps/dont notice. my dad cant tell the difference between a 60fps video and a 30. my step dad turned off the smooth motion on the tv. look up the "soap opera effect". a surprising number of people actually dislike higher frame rates. 

[Swndlr]

READING THIS ACTUALLY ANNOYED ME FOR SOME REASON LOL

[GuruMeditationError]

Well I game on an i3 and four 2GB sticks of generic crucial RAM with stock speeds and stock cooling.

 

What I have found when playing GTAV is that if I tab out of the game to run searches for tips on where stuff is or how to increase stats etc. my computer is barely handling the extra load of just two or sometimes even just one browser window open.

 

I can turn everything up to full on my 970 but it drops the frame-rate to about 30fps :0/

 

Generally I wait longer to play a game, so normally this wouldn't be an issue, since my hardware will generally (at this point assuming things are to continue as they are?) be powerful enough to handle it.

 

The thing is, most PC video-gaming enthusiasts don't want to wait for a year or so to play a game, and although I agree with the basic gist of the article the one part I don't agree with is that higher graphical settings don't improve immersion. I think they absolutely do.

 

I'm an advocate for "putting the money on the screen" and if I was forced to spend the money I spent on my previous machine (which I've since broken down and sold off in favor of a budget rig), and I do mean if I was 'forced' to. I probably would have put the money into a Titan or some other super expensive graphics card and just gone with cheapest everything else (and probably still an i3, although I understand Far Cry 4 is actually programmed not to work with i3's? :rolleyes:).

[Guest]

This is a computer liquidation site, they're trying to sell to the less knowledgable by saying that their cheap used crap is perfectly adequate for playing crysis 3