Would you ever finance a rig like an Alienware?
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Rick, in all seriousness:
No.
$4,500 for a desktop PC? Are you kidding me? This isn't 1978. I can't imagine spending more than $1k for a high-end desktop system, and that's $1k worth of depreciated US money, not the fancy high-value stuff y'all have up there with pictures of ducks and queens on it.
And financing it? I wouldn't finance the purchase of a depreciating asset which wasn't somehow involved in, say, running a business or otherwise paying for itself many times over, even at 0% APR.
(And yes, I'm fully aware of what business you're in. You could do that from a $250 Netbook.)
This thread is just wrong.
Is Scott really kicking your **** this badly in CoD?
No.
$4,500 for a desktop PC? Are you kidding me? This isn't 1978. I can't imagine spending more than $1k for a high-end desktop system, and that's $1k worth of depreciated US money, not the fancy high-value stuff y'all have up there with pictures of ducks and queens on it.
And financing it? I wouldn't finance the purchase of a depreciating asset which wasn't somehow involved in, say, running a business or otherwise paying for itself many times over, even at 0% APR.
(And yes, I'm fully aware of what business you're in. You could do that from a $250 Netbook.)
This thread is just wrong.
Is Scott really kicking your **** this badly in CoD?
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my company paid like 5 grand for my desktop. I cant remember all the specs, but its 24gig of ram. windows 7 64 bit.
I still think its MASSIVE overkill and way overpriced. . . but thats what you get from buying it from DELL
I still think its MASSIVE overkill and way overpriced. . . but thats what you get from buying it from DELL
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so sad. told wife what you all be saying, hatering. then she asked what was wrong with current system... friggen trick question.
awww well, will just build a system via parts list I suppose. Spending 5k is nuts on a system, but i do use the system for work so ... lol
Scott and I are teammates Joe. We are equal awesome.
And no, i couldnt use a $250 desktop.. I actually need some power for photochopping and other stuff.
and how can quote NCIX system with no MB???
awww well, will just build a system via parts list I suppose. Spending 5k is nuts on a system, but i do use the system for work so ... lol
Scott and I are teammates Joe. We are equal awesome.
And no, i couldnt use a $250 desktop.. I actually need some power for photochopping and other stuff.
and how can quote NCIX system with no MB???
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Mid to high-end, Intel's been kicking AMD's *** for...years, admittantly.
On the other hand, on the low-end, I'm unable to think of a time in the past decade where AMD has not at least been able to hold their own.
(Although, since we're talking about gaming, I'm not certain why low-end is coming into it.)
On the other hand, on the low-end, I'm unable to think of a time in the past decade where AMD has not at least been able to hold their own.
(Although, since we're talking about gaming, I'm not certain why low-end is coming into it.)
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I'm so far out of the loop that I don't know what's quality and reliable now. I just hear coworkers recommending Intel chips a lot.
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Yeah...me too. On the first desktop I built (5-6 years back now), AMD seemed much more desirable. I threw up an old 1.4ghz processor on Ebay and it got like 30 bids...at which point I found that people had ben overclocking them to 1.8-1.9ghz with watercooling at the time. I took it off, bought the watercooling accessories, and sure enough it lasted me a few more years.
I'm so far out of the loop that I don't know what's quality and reliable now. I just hear coworkers recommending Intel chips a lot.
I'm so far out of the loop that I don't know what's quality and reliable now. I just hear coworkers recommending Intel chips a lot.
Oh, and Rick, just so you know, a 16GB RAM, Core i7, GTX 580 rig can be built for under $1500. And then the question becomes not what is it capable of, but for nearly all intents and purposes, what isn't it capable of? Also, overclocking and CrossFireX/SLI.
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Rick, I view you as an above average person in terms of intellect, mostly b/c you created this wonderful place for me to learn about turbo witchcraft, read p0z stories, and crap on people/things/ideas that I do not like, and not so much b/c you buy 6.0 diesel Ford trucks. So I've got to ask, why do you want or need a $4,500 computer?
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Rick, I view you as an above average person in terms of intellect, mostly b/c you created this wonderful place for me to learn about turbo witchcraft, read p0z stories, and crap on people/things/ideas that I do not like, and not so much b/c you buy 6.0 diesel Ford trucks. So I've got to ask, why do you want or need a $4,500 computer?
BTW, Rick, if you do go top-of-the-line cards, go with a single 7970 instead of a 580 or an SLI/Crossfire platform.
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Don't think he was trolling. Maybe on the 4k thing.
But srsly $1500 is about the max that should be spent on a desktop these days. That will get you right to the point of having a fully updated system that will last. Anything beyond that the price to performance ratio goes waaaay south.
But srsly $1500 is about the max that should be spent on a desktop these days. That will get you right to the point of having a fully updated system that will last. Anything beyond that the price to performance ratio goes waaaay south.
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I just spent $345 out the door for a more than capable laptop for anything but hardcore gaming. It could probably handle SC2 at low graphic settings, which is all I would ever need. With tablets out now I see laptops dying out in the next few years. Desktops however, will be around forever I think.
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I certainly hope not.
Tablets have their place, but even if they started shipping with "real" operating systems and capable processors, a touchscreen interface isn't the greatest thing in the universe if you're working in a big database app or drawing stuff in AutoCAD. And that's pretty much what I do with my laptop when I'm using it for work.
At best, maybe a dockable tablet such as the Asus transformer, but even that concept just adds weight and fragility for something that I don't care about in the least.
It's funny that you say this.
While I agree that there will always be a small market for desktops (eg: administrative workers who do lots of text-based computing) I am already seeing a shift away from desktop PCs in pretty much every other area.
At CBS Radio's newer facilities, for instance, virtually nobody has a desktop PC outside of the actual studio / newsroom environment. Everyone else gets laptops. And even at our office, our biggest heavy-hitter CAD guy gave up his desktop PC a couple of years ago for an uber-laptop along with a docking station. I never had a desktop PC the whole time I worked for Harris. Going all the way back to '99 when I started, I always had a laptop and a docking station.
Tablets have their place, but even if they started shipping with "real" operating systems and capable processors, a touchscreen interface isn't the greatest thing in the universe if you're working in a big database app or drawing stuff in AutoCAD. And that's pretty much what I do with my laptop when I'm using it for work.
At best, maybe a dockable tablet such as the Asus transformer, but even that concept just adds weight and fragility for something that I don't care about in the least.
Desktops however, will be around forever I think.
While I agree that there will always be a small market for desktops (eg: administrative workers who do lots of text-based computing) I am already seeing a shift away from desktop PCs in pretty much every other area.
At CBS Radio's newer facilities, for instance, virtually nobody has a desktop PC outside of the actual studio / newsroom environment. Everyone else gets laptops. And even at our office, our biggest heavy-hitter CAD guy gave up his desktop PC a couple of years ago for an uber-laptop along with a docking station. I never had a desktop PC the whole time I worked for Harris. Going all the way back to '99 when I started, I always had a laptop and a docking station.