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thegleek wrote:Everything I own is ghetto. But it all works, it makes me happy, and I am not an iota jealous of all you who dump $500+ on a video card! lol pfft
thegleek wrote:Everything I own is ghetto. But it all works, it makes me happy, and I am not an iota jealous of all you who dump $500+ on a video card! lol pfft
Anyone else doing something similar?
hansmuff wrote:I mean, if you must play the latest crysis/battlefield on insane resolutions at 60fps with ultra detail, well there's always a high price for that.
kamikaziechameleon wrote:I really don't get the whole this is my last purchase post. Its not like when I bought a home entertainment center and declared I wouldn't be going to the theater anymore. How does buying tech facilitate you not buying tech? Its not like you bought a laptop and gave up desktops. I'm just confused by this thread. It would be something if you were about to upgrade and said you decided not to and that you were content to do everything on your phone from now on.
hansmuff wrote:There is a happy medium, I feel.
I mean, if you must play the latest crysis/battlefield on insane resolutions at 60fps with ultra detail, well there's always a high price for that.
I skip those games on purpose. They're oftentimes neat, but ultimately little new in terms of actual multiplayer gameplay.
With those few titles abandoned, I am mostly left with either console ports (low hardware requirements) or a few PC games that usually are OK with a midrange GPU and decent CPU.
So for instance, if I built a rig around a 2500K with an ATi 6870 a year ago, that machine would still power the vast majority of games at 1080p just fine, and will keep doing so for a while. And that wasn't a very high investment.
I've long gotten out of the high-end race, except splurged for the 2600K instead of getting a 2500K. But I'm still rockin' a 5850 and happy with it. Nothing I actually want to play is anything but butter smooth on that machine. I just stay behind the curve ever so little, and it's a great place.
End User wrote:Anyone else doing something similar?
Nope. I've got a linux workstation to build and, following that, a new gaming rig (waiting for Ivy Bridge).
kamikaziechameleon wrote:I really don't get the whole this is my last purchase post. Its not like when I bought a home entertainment center and declared I wouldn't be going to the theater anymore. How does buying tech facilitate you not buying tech? Its not like you bought a laptop and gave up desktops. I'm just confused by this thread. It would be something if you were about to upgrade and said you decided not to and that you were content to do everything on your phone from now on.
spitfire650 wrote:It also reeks of "I'm quitting smoking, right after this last pack"
StuG wrote:I have made a decision to have this be the last high end upgrade I ever do on my computer.
StuG wrote:Money is getting tighter,
StuG wrote:but mainly there is less and less need to really get upgrades now a days. Maybe the days of old where I require new PC upgrades will return with some new advent, but I highly doubt it.
StuG wrote:I upgraded to Sandy Bridge not long ago (actually my first Intel CPU) as the beginning process of this decision, and I just placed an order for an SSD (Corsair Performance Pro 128GB) and a GPU (Asus DirectCU II HD7970). I was willing to spend the bit more on the 7970 because honestly, ATI and later AMD has always served me well on the GPU front and this is my farewell to them per-say. I have almost always gone with them for my GPU needs since way back in the Radeon 9800 days, and been upgrading every other generation since. Call it corny, fanboism, or what have you but I cannot say how many times I've gotten my GPU's dirt cheap from ATI/AMD. This is my cheers to them.
StuG wrote:There is no real point to the post, but this is more or less the end to my active participation in my favorite hobby to date. I will be keeping up with the new releases still for fun, and will always have my eye out for low power HTPC predecessors. Still a bit of a sad day none the less. Anyone else doing something similar?
ludi wrote:Never have built an "extreme PC", myself. My current i5+SSD build comes closest, mostly because that's the first time I've ever spent a full grand in a single upgrade event, but even then I re-used my case, sound, and video (GTX-460) and hope to get five years out of the barebones components. Never have bought the fastest CPU on the market, and never have spent more than $200 on a video card (and usually less than $150). Part of the reason was limited budget and part of the reason was the rapidly diminishing returns once you get past the upper-midrange sweet spot.
IrateAdmin wrote:You have an interesting definition of "hassle-free gaming".thegleek wrote:Everything I own is ghetto. But it all works, it makes me happy, and I am not an iota jealous of all you who dump $500+ on a video card! lol pfft
I got the money for it and I like hassle free gaming. Turn all the graphics to max and go to town. It's fantastic. While I shouldn't have spent $570 on a single gpu, it was worth every penny not having to mess with tweaking ini's and spending hours getting the best performance i can with at least some eye candy.
just brew it! wrote:Going on five years, here. Speak for yourself. I also quit smoking in a single day, after smoking that last pack.StuG wrote:I have made a decision to have this be the last high end upgrade I ever do on my computer.
Resolutions like this are generally made to be broken.
Welch wrote:Well that's not quite what he saidEither way man, sorry to hear that you've lost interest.
mainly there is less and less need to really get upgrades now a days
Firestarter wrote:well if having fast hardware bores you, I guess you haven't overclocked it enough yet
it's not quite fast enough unless you're taking breaks from driving M1 Abrams' to fill up the liquid nitrogen
Welch wrote:No, that's not it at all. The moral of the story is that high end computer hardware is just as boring as low end computer hardware these days. Computers have become appliances. I have a Dyson Vacuum for the house(high end, $400 vacuum) and a Bissel for the garage (low end, $50 vacuum).Moral of story.....
If you have money, and buy high end hardware you will feel like computer hardware is boring.