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so i'm in the market for a gaming desktop which i need to last me like six years. i'm too incompetent to build a computer myself. what should i buy
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Dec 13, 2014 17:25
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i was thinking maybe a dell xps.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:27
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Buy a cheap Lenovo prebuilt w/ an i3 and put a real video card in it and use it for like two years instead of thinking you can futureproof for 6 years.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:28
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If your to stupid to build youre own OP, i reccomend Alienware
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Dec 13, 2014 17:29
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Fellis posted:If your to stupid to build youre own OP, i reccomend Alienware i was looking at the x51s and they appear to have p good reviews but i'm concerned that their console size would make adding a second hard drive impossible. also look rly lame.
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Dec 13, 2014 17:31
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just build your own its really easy these days and you get a pc for like 50% of the cost of a prebuilt
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Dec 13, 2014 17:44
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if you must buy prebuilt, buy it locally - so you have somewhere you can take it if it breaks. like a best buy or a dell store or something. the absolute dumbest thing is buying a prebuilt and having to ship it if it breaks. i recommend building your own
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Dec 13, 2014 17:50
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i had trouble upgrading the video card on my 2008 xps i feel like building my own would just be a horrible disaster
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Dec 13, 2014 17:52
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Fandyien posted:adding a second hard drive. If you can add a second hard drive to a machine, you can build your own. It really is more or less foolproof these days. The PC building thread over in SH/SC is quite helpful.
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Dec 13, 2014 18:01
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If you can recognize objects of the same size, you can build a PC.
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Dec 13, 2014 18:11
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Just build it yourself it's really easy.
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Dec 13, 2014 18:18
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op unless you're literally a blind elephant seal you should be able to build a pc its like, slot a tab b poo poo
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Dec 13, 2014 19:10
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try the playstation 4 OP.
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Dec 13, 2014 19:41
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Doctor Goat posted:If you can recognize objects of the same size, you can build a PC. i ca't
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Dec 13, 2014 19:41
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mysterious loyall X posted:i ca't 
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Dec 13, 2014 20:04
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I knew absolutely nothing about building a computer and I was still able to. There's literally videos showing you how to do it, you can't screw it up.
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Dec 13, 2014 20:55
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Its lego.
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Dec 13, 2014 21:00
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Be careful not to smash your motherboard with your giant stupid idiot hands cause this will cause electrical shorts. PS: You can't future proof a PC for six years. Three maybe. I'm on a PC I built seven years ago and the only parts in it from then are the power source, motherboard, and CPU. Concordat fucked around with this message at 00:11 on Dec 14, 2014 |
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Dec 14, 2014 00:09
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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WPjGdq6baGM https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mu9gzuSMlFA Rich Evans can build a PC. Why can't you?
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Dec 14, 2014 00:10
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The heatsink+fan that comes with Intel CPUs these days is pretty decent. Stuff that beats it in performance are usually gigantic and a pain in the rear end to install because they need brackets on the back of the motherboard for support or a giant radiator.
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Dec 14, 2014 00:13
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Concordat posted:Be careful not to smash your motherboard with your giant stupid idiot hands cause this will cause electrical shorts. You can future-proof a PC for 8 years because that's how long it takes them to release a new console and graphics will never be better than what a console can run.
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Dec 14, 2014 00:23
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Thug Lessons posted:You can future-proof a PC for 8 years because that's how long it takes them to release a new console and graphics will never be better than what a console can run. yeah but companies do dog poo poo optimization for pc sometimes requiring more power until there's a patch or driver update or whatever. so you're right unless someone says "but but but what about if you want to play lovely games at launch on very high settings?"
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Dec 14, 2014 00:27
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for like $400 and some change you can build a really powerful gaming PC right now. Or you could buy a prebuilt that can just about render the Facebook front page.
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Dec 14, 2014 00:50
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Concordat posted:Be careful not to smash your motherboard with your giant stupid idiot hands cause this will cause electrical shorts. i mean i'm using mostly the same system since summer 2007, only changes being an additional 2 gb ram and a different but long since outdated videocard (my 8800 gtx suddenly broke in late 2009, so i put in a radeon 4900hd because it was a little faster and on offer at the time), and i'm pretty sure it'll still run most new games acceptably well if you lower the settings a bit of course if you want your average framerate in the majority of games to be no less than 60 at max settings then yeah i guess it'll be 3 years tops
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Dec 14, 2014 01:06
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I would have gotten a new CPU by now if I hadn't been unlucky enough to buy a motherboard with a CPU socket they were about to stop supporting.
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Dec 14, 2014 01:30
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op if you stream yourself assembling the computer i will help you in real time
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Dec 14, 2014 01:38
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get a macbook
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Dec 14, 2014 01:42
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just buy all the parts and make some schmuck at Best Buy build it for you if you're too much of a busta to make your own PC.
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Dec 14, 2014 03:11
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Thinking you can't build a computer is no excuse because putting a computer together is both easy and rewarding. Besides, if you're not a dumb consumer, you'd have already compared different components and know what you're buying. Now you can save 100%, buy GOOD parts because Dell and others use crap parts, and not feel like a complete tool.
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Dec 14, 2014 03:32
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zen death robot posted:micro center will do it too I wish I had a Micro Center around where I live. They sound cool, but they have no stores in Indiana. Then again barely any one has any loving stores in Indiana.
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Dec 14, 2014 03:32
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My computer's only a year and a half old and it already feels a little laggardly at some gamespre:Operating System Windows 8.1 Pro 64-bit CPU Intel Core i5 4570 @ 3.20GHz 34 °C Haswell 22nm Technology RAM 8.00GB Dual-Channel DDR3 @ 798MHz (11-11-11-28) Motherboard ASUSTeK COMPUTER INC. B85M-E (SOCKET 1150) 28 °C Graphics ASUS VG278 (1920x1080@60Hz) 2047MB NVIDIA GeForce GTX 760 (PNY) 39 °C Storage 223GB Corsair Force GT (SSD) 29 °C
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Dec 14, 2014 03:35
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You have a gtx 760, so maybe wait a generation or two and grab some ol' 500 dollar vid card and BLAM you're set for another two years until games actually take strides in cpu core performance software.
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Dec 14, 2014 03:38
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Kazvall posted:You have a gtx 760, so maybe wait a generation or two and grab some ol' 500 dollar vid card and BLAM you're set for another two years until games actually take strides in cpu core performance software. not really worth doing yet, huh my problem is I made the mistake of getting a 120hz monitor (despite what the speccy output says, this is 120hz) it looks great on poo poo that runs on a toaster like TF2, but ffxiv and other stuff it isn't so hot jumping between 70 and 100 (in fact it's rather more irritating to my eyes than you'd think)
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Dec 14, 2014 03:47
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I'm getting a GTX 970. I think that'll last me for about 5 years or so.
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Dec 14, 2014 03:50
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Ciaphas posted:not really worth doing yet, huh Well, it's like this. The GTX 780 TI has almost twice the performance as your 760 and yet your 760 holds like the top spot in terms of performance for the price.
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Dec 14, 2014 03:50
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the best thing to do is to buy one of the stupid cheap pre-built computers with crazy processors and RAM that no one normal would ever use and slap a video card in it
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Dec 14, 2014 04:00
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Kazvall posted:Well, it's like this. The GTX 780 TI has almost twice the performance as your 760 and yet your 760 holds like the top spot in terms of performance for the price. so it's more that I'd be spending $Texas right now for not as much improvement as I'd get if I wait a year or so, in summary? i guess i knew that but it's hard to resist buying top of the line WRT video cards 
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Dec 14, 2014 04:27
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SunAndSpring posted:I'm getting a GTX 970. I think that'll last me for about 5 years or so. its real good, get it
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Dec 14, 2014 06:01
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Bobnumerotres posted:the best thing to do is to buy one of the stupid cheap pre-built computers with crazy processors and RAM that no one normal would ever use and slap a video card in it Best GPU you can stick in a pre-built is a 750Ti, unless you're gonna replace the power supply, and at that point you might as well build the whole thing yourself.
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Dec 14, 2014 06:14
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a good one haha
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