Is anyone sorry they bought a gaming PC ?

[sharplucas]

I thought this would be a good computer for what you are doing!


Case
COOLERMASTER HAF 912 PLUS MID TOWER GAMING CASE

Processor (CPU)
Intel® Core™i5-2500 Quad Core (3.30GHz, 6MB Cache) + HD Graphics

Motherboard
ASUS® P8Z68-V: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX

Memory (RAM)
8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)

Graphics Card
1.25GB NVIDIA GEFORCE GTX 570 - 2 DVI, HDMI, DP - 3D Vision Ready

Memory - 1st Hard Disk
750GB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD7502AAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

1st DVD/BLU-RAY Drive
24x DUAL LAYER DVD WRITER ±R/±RW/RAM

Power Supply
COOLERMASTER 750W GX SERIES™ -80 PLUS® BRONZE (£72) **SPECIAL***

Processor Cooling
TITAN FENRIR EVO EXTREME HEATPIPE CPU COOLER (£39)

Sound Card
ONBOARD 6 CHANNEL (5.1) HIGH DEF AUDIO (AS STANDARD)

Network Facilities
ONBOARD GIGABIT LAN & WIRELESS 802.11N 300Mbps PCI CARD (£16)

USB Options
6 x USB 2.0 PORTS @ BACK PANEL (MIN 2 FRONT PORTS) AS STANDARD

Operating System
Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit - inc DVD & Licence (£79)

Office Software
FREE Microsoft® Office Starter 2010 (Limited functionality Word & Excel)

Anti-Virus
NO ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE

Warranty
3 Year Standard Warranty (1 Month Collect & Return, 1 Year Parts, 3 Year Labour)

Delivery
STANDARD INSURED DELIVERY TO UK MAINLAND (MON-FRI)

Build Time
Standard Build - Approximately 10 to 12 working days
Quantity 1

 

[MeveM]

Won't need a Fenrir CPU cooler when not overclocking, copper is fine.

 

[Wozza63]

Make sure to get silver warranty and you could et a better case if you drop the titan to the triple copper

 

[mishra]

hmm I'm also in favour of PC gaming rather than console, but truth is that a proper gaming PC cost fortune, to put it other way: a decent graphics card alone cost more than xbox 360, so there you go
Am I sorry? to invest money in my PC, hell no... it's just the way it is .. you just keep investing and try not to think much about it ^^

 

[Wozza63]

hmm I'm also in favour of PC gaming rather than console, but truth is that a proper gaming PC cost fortune, to put it other way: a decent graphics card alone cost more than xbox 360, so there you go
Am I sorry? to invest money in my PC, hell no... it's just the way it is .. you just keep investing and try not to think much about it ^^

Pc games are cheaper, levelling it out a bit

 

[NotebookNut]

Since my gaming laptop arrived some time ago, I actually forgot that I had an Xbox360 until I saw this thread.

 

[Evil Tactician]

Hi guys.
I'm in the process of building a very decent gaming pc on this site.
It's going to cost about £1k.

The main reason Is I'm getting a bit bored of the age-ing graphics of the Xbox360.
I'm sure many of you people had the same idea and have already built and ordered your PC.

what i want to know Is, Is anyone sorry they did as they feel they ended up wasting their money. for example alot of games are just poor ports of the consoles ?

No.

If anything, I wish I had spend more money if PC Specialist had a 'come to your house and upgrade your pc then and there' service, I would totally make use of it.

 

[petrow]

I get fed up of console games... FPS games on a console sucks also. I have yet to find anyone to be quicker or as quick on a traditional gamepad over a keyboard and mouse. I have a PS3 and it only gets turned on to watch Blurays...

 

[Dayve]

Consoles are good for some games, they're not all bad. In general console games are short, fast paced and with little replayability (lack of modding capabilities). Some games though, like driving games or Final Fantasy games are fine. I suppose it'd be worth having a console as backup for if the PC ever had to be sent away for repairs, or if you had to wait for new parts for a few days, with a few driving games at the ready.

My backups are: Gamecube (Resident Evil 1 remake, Resident Evil 3)
PS1: Resident Evil 2, Final Fantasy 7, 8 and 9, Metal Gear Solid, Syphon Filter, Silent Hill.

It's kind of academic though because now I've bought a new PC (in my sig) I have my old PC as backup. So if the new one had to be sent away and the old one broke as well, then the above consoles would be my backup. Or, the backup of my backup.

 

[Frenchy]

I get fed up of console games... FPS games on a console sucks also. I have yet to find anyone to be quicker or as quick on a traditional gamepad over a keyboard and mouse. I have a PS3 and it only gets turned on to watch Blurays...

But speed isnt key, speed relative to everyone else in the game is. Hence why they dont put pc vs ps3 and xbox. I dont see why speed has anything to do with the argument that PC is better. If you had a game where pc and ps3 servers were one and the same and PC players always won because of the advantage then Id agree that PC would in that case be better, fortunately that isnt the case.

Consoles are brilliant for sitting down relaxing on your sofa, playing split screen games with ur mates etc. I would want to play split screen games on my pc with my mates crowded around a desk, however having a group of friends round and playing ps3 or xbox is good fun.

I leave PC playing to purely online and single player games, yet i still go back to using controller for racing games etc and graphically PC racing games just arent as good as consoles. F1 2010 being the exception, but GT5 beats the F1 2010 PC graphics hands down.

 

[petrow]

But speed isnt key, speed relative to everyone else in the game is. Hence why they dont put pc vs ps3 and xbox. I dont see why speed has anything to do with the argument that PC is better. If you had a game where pc and ps3 servers were one and the same and PC players always won because of the advantage then Id agree that PC would in that case be better, fortunately that isnt the case.

I find it is frustrating that it takes far longer than it should to do something that is reactionary. I've played games like CoD on both PC & PS3 and you get killed an awful lot more through lucky spraying of bullets on a PS3 than on a PC. I just hate that lack of input. Now games like Final Fantasy, racing games, Grand Theft Auto etc consoles are fine (although GTA4 was at times a pain). I do like my PS3 and I still play it occasionally, but a PC feels more natural to me. Plus the online community is generally better.