Opinions on People Over-building their PCs

[JujuShinobi]

Just yesterday I went to a friend's house. His PC has an i7-2600k and a 7770 with a 1440x900 panel and plays games like MechWarrior and BF4. His dad however... good lord. Has a Haswell i7-4770k on a B85 Asus motherboard with a GTX 760. DOES NOT GAME, only watches movies giving the excuse that he wants the PC to remain relavent for a long time. When I heard this I just flipped a table. And here you have people like me struggling on a mobile Intel Pentium.

 

What are your thoughts on things like this?

[xox]

Whatever strokes your goat really.

[thedigitalmilk]

If its his money he can spend it how we wants tbh...

[JujuShinobi]

If its his money he can spend it how we wants tbh...

True and I can't deny that. But it's just... wha....

[thedigitalmilk]

True and I can't deny that. But it's just... wha....

Does sound a bit pointless but hell a Ferrari will get you to the shops the same as a fiat, but most would still want a Ferrari

[mineblaster]

kinda good kinda bad my mum still has her pentium dual core from 8 years ago they see it as more of a car and along term investment and dont want to stay on the bleeding edge of tech

[JujuShinobi]

kinda good kinda bad my mum still has her pentium dual core from 8 years ago they see it as more of a car and along term investment and dont want to stay on the bleeding edge of tech

8 year old Pentium? Oh boy haha. Even the Athlon X4 750k will beat that. But if she isn't complaining about it unlike me, well good for her haha

[orangecat]

Honestly it pisses me off to see people overbuilding when they don't need it or don't use it. My dad uses his PC to play civ 3 and go on Facebook and yet he wants an i5 and a "good" gpu. I keep telling him he does not need it but hes got a Celeron G530 and its pretty slow.

[mineblaster]

8 year old Pentium? Oh boy haha. Even the Athlon X4 750k will beat that. But if she isn't complaining about it unlike me, well good for her haha

1gb of ram and windows xp all the way

[jollander]

I don't see whats wrong in that situation. He wants a computer that will last him a while, and he has one. Is that not a valid reason? 

If he has the money, it would be a bad decision to buy something cheap and then have it be absolute shyte after a year or two.

 

 

 

And here you have people like me struggling on a mobile Intel Pentium.

 

Seems to sum up the entire situation imo.  

[Hans Christian | Teri]

Why not let them spend their money on what satisfies them? It's their money after all. I didn't need 32GB when I was running an X79 build either but it made me feel good inside, why should your opinion on whether or not it's "efficient" be allowed to ruin that? I earned the money and knowingly spent them on something I knew was overkill.

[nathanhd123]

It's his money, if he wants to spend his money on it he can.

[chaozbandit]

If you have the money, why not? The same question can be applied to people modding their cases when "they can just get a case that already has everything they want."

[TheRuke]

I want an i7

[cjeffcoatjr]

When Sarcasm was here he had either a 4930K or a 3930K (I forgot which) and two Nvidia 7xxx cards (I forgot which they were).

[ZmanFTW]

In my opinion it's all on preference. You can have a good i5-3350p & GTX 760 build for around $750 to $800 so it's all about what is going to do it for you. Can you live with lower than 1080p resolution? Yes, but it's kind of become the norm. Do you absolutely have to have a GTX 760, no probably not. There are cheaper solutions that will get you where you are comfy gaming at least. It's all a matter of preference.

[Lays]

Honestly everything combined that I've spend on my pc+setup+ etc probably totals 5500$ usd, and it may be a bit more once I finish watercooling.

 

Could I have spent less and probably had the same thing? Yes probably.

 

Do I use the parts I bought to the fullest extent? Sometimes, but not on an everyday basis.

 

 

My thoughts are on this matter is, over-preparing is much better than underpreparing, on the off chance I ever need to render a super duper quality video that's 19234124 hours long, or run a minecraft server for 129341234 people, render a 3d model of the entire world+cities or run 12341243 virtual machines, atleast I have the power to do it already.

 

 

(I know some of this is like "lolwat" but you get the point)

[toms94z71]

Is there such thing as over building anything? I think the only way to over build is to over stretch what you can actually afford and go into debt building.

[ObeseWalrus]

I get slightly annoyed by it too, my friend decided against a 4670k and a 780 over a 4770k and a 770 because he "edits(procratinating to install Sony Vegas in 3 months now)"

[eshbop]

I overbuilt mine because I had no idea, I thought I did, I'd researched it for ~6months, but no. Could of saved a few $100.

[Vic9mm]

I don't really care one way or the other if this guy wants to overbuild his PC to surf the web more power to him. That being said with everything going on in the world today getting pissed off over an overbuilt PC "because they don't need it" is stupid and childish. To be honest I think this is more on the lines of jealousy and envy.

[TheRetiredSlave]

My opinion on overbuilding is that it's only a problem if you've spent extra money on stuff that you don't need.. If a person is only playing midrange games on a 1600x900 panel, there's no need for a 780 or 290, so either of those would be overkill in my opinion.. The money would be better spent on a good SSD, or just saved for future use.

 

I tend to hold the belief that getting a midrange build and upgrading it every two years is better than building a beast rig and than expecting it to last 5-6 years.. Prices at the high end of the market tend to increase faster than the performance increases, so spending more than what you can use right now is somewhat wasteful.. Then again, like others have said, what a person wants to do with their money is their own decision, so I won't stop someone from overbuilding if they want to. 

[Craftable124]

My grandpa just bought a PC with a 760, A 4770k, 16gb ddr3 1833 ram, and dual 1TB HDDs. Upgrade from his old pentium dual core 1.86Ghz, 1GB ram, iGFX, 40gb IDE HDD.

[Craftable124]

My grandpa just bought a PC with a 760, A 4770k, 16gb ddr3 1833 ram, and dual 1TB HDDs. Upgrade from his old pentium dual core 1.86Ghz, 1GB ram, iGFX, 40gb IDE HDD.

ALSO: He hasn't played a video game since his atari 2600 broke.

[xXmjzXx]

If he has the money why not? who cares... Also it piss's me off when people say someone over builds there pc... THEIRS NO SUCH THING...