What do you think of this PC for gaming?

[abrader]

http://www.velocitymicro.com/wizard.php?iid=75&gad=CJ-vkLQDEghCSEL2uJKxRBjFosD_AyDzwIQy

I would get it with the three 9800 Geforce cards and dual 24" Samsung monitors.

Is this a good / great gaming rig - or is there something less than $9,000 that I would enjoy just as much?

I am not a Dell fan after dealing with their notebooks, and I dont like Gateway...

I have no opinion about HP - do they make a decent gaming rig?

I wouldnt use the machine for anything else.

[Great Rumbler]

Dude. 

[abrader]

^^ - that was helpful.

[Akala]

Kind of overkill.  

If all you are going to be doing is gaming on it, you can probably spec that way down.

There aren't many reasons to go that high in a pure gaming rig. You can easily spend half of that and be good for years.

[Akala]

Also, reading the sheet, one of the FEATURES is "the final word in bragging rights."

That's fucking stupid. It's like some guy buying a super tuned car and going to a car show. The only place you are going to ever brag would be to enthusiasts, and they will only think you're a poser for buying in.

Not that you're trying to brag or anything, the bullet point just irked me.

[Powerslave]

another abrader show-off post.

"what do you think of this gamer pc?" 


it sucks ok, it's a really bad one and you can't run anything on it, ok?

[MrAngryFace]

SUX!

[Van Cruncheon]

that's waaayyy overpriced for the performance, which isn't even tops these days

just get something with dual GeForce GX 280s.

[Tieno]

  I don't know a lot about good gaming PC's but that looks like a bad gaming PC cause it's overkill. Better off upgrading at certain times and keep ahead of the curve with that money instead of a few months/a year of bragging rights.

Show off

[WrikaWrek]

Looks like a piece of shit.

[MrAngryFace]

Did your grandma build that PC? Only someone that old would make such a crappy rig.

[demi]

It's perfect, buy it and post pics

[demi]

Oh and you should get Vista 64, since you are using a Quad Core

[hyp]

It's perfect, buy it and post pics

i agree with demi.  waste your money help the economy in its time of need!

[abrader]

Wow there is like a 30%/70% dipshit post % in this thread.

To the TWO users that actually answered my question about it being way too powerful and a waste of money - thanks. I have no idea how much power I need for silky smoothe gaming with all FX.

And NO - I never BOUGHT A MAC FOR GAMING.

I have some macs and just started playing some oldish games on them.

[demi]

Uh, I gave you straight real talk

You clearly made this as an attempt to troll, and you have no idea what you're doing, so I'm going to make you waste your money on this and lulz

I made an entire thread on making my current PC, and I barely crested $1000 total

[abrader]

How is this an attempt to troll?

You need to get out of the house more.

I admittedly know nothing about PC gaming - so I ask.

[abrader]

I made an entire thread on making my current PC, and I barely crested $1000 total

Thats not bad - with the display and everything?

Can you play stuff like Crysis with all FX on?

[Smooth Groove]

GPU performance is most important for gaming.  You only need about 3.0GHZ for the games to not be bottlenecked by CPU performance.  Going with a Quad-core is better for future performance.  

The 9800 GTX is outdated and was never that good anyways.  Get 2 280 GTXes instead.  You could get a 3rd one but SLI doesn't work that well in more than 2 card configurations.  

If you aren't building your own gaming PC, there are better choices than velocity micro.  The HP Blackbird looks and performs much nicer than the one above and probably costs about the same.  Alienware, and VoodooPC are good too but they're also more expensive.  

[demi]

http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=19371.0

This is my thread, and you can see what I decided on - it will "just play games" at a reasonable resolution and framerate (I play Crysis @ 1280x1024 on High just fine), while you can spend the rest of your money on more PS3 games and Mac Mouses

[abrader]

Thank you Smoothe Groove - you are right I do not want to build my own.

I just want something out of the box that works for gaming and works well. I want to be able to play the best games at the highest possible frame-rates with all of the FX turned on. But I do not need a power workstation for rendering 3D scenes or anything.

I will check out this HP Blackbird - owners say good things.

I came across velocity micro from looking at Intel's site.

Also thanks for the video card info - I just assumed that more Vram and more cards = better based on the sites I had read.

[demi]

If Crysis is your benchmark for "the best" then you will still have problems, even the uber machines have trouble with it - I blame Crytek and their shoddy programming (and game design)

[abrader]

http://www.evilbore.com/forum/index.php?topic=19371.0

This is my thread, and you can see what I decided on - it will "just play games" at a reasonable resolution and framerate (I play Crysis @ 1280x1024 on High just fine), while you can spend the rest of your money on more PS3 games and Mac Mouses

So basically you made a thread asking for advise like I did but for some reason you consider my thread a troll?

Id rather admit that I do not know and ask the advise of others than pretend to be a subject matter expert like SOME OTHER PEOPLE WHO POST HERE.

hhe anyway - im not sure that I consider Crysis the best - it just seems to be the app that people upgraded for.

You know games well Demi - whats the best looking, best performing PC game in your opinion?

[demi]

Dude you posted a $6,000 PC as your "suggestion" - get real

[demi]

I haven't played many recent games since building this, I'm still snatching them from torrents

Crysis is the best looking game I've played - but it plays like dogshit and is not fun at all

[WrikaWrek]

I run Crysis on Very High at 1280x1024 just fine, DX10 mode.

[Smooth Groove]

At max settings, Crysis is easily the most beautiful game ever made but the performance is atrocious.  Even on the fastest machines, Crysis will only run about 30fps at max settings in 1080P.  And there are still some spots where the framerate will dip to 20 or so.  There's no good reason why my rig can run DMC4 in 1080p w/16x AA at 150fps while Crysis is barely playable at the same resolution with no AA.  

Otoh, Crysis's framerate is really not worse than many console shooters so Abrader should be fine with it.  

[abrader]

At max settings, Crysis is easily the most beautiful game ever made but the performance is atrocious.  Even on the fastest machines, Crysis will only run about 30fps at max settings in 1080P.  And there are still some spots where the framerate will dip to 20 or so.  There's no good reason why my rig can run DMC4 in 1080p w/16x AA at 150fps while Crysis is barely playable at the same resolution with no AA.  

Otoh, Crysis's framerate is really not worse than many console shooters so Abrader should be fine with it.  

The framerate of the Doom 3 demo running on my 2.15 ghz core 2 duo imac was pretty disapointing. It looked SOOO good tho.

[demi]

^ That's just the shoddy Mac platform. It probably runs crisp and smooth on the superior PC platform

[Fragamemnon]

People keep throwing hardware at Crysis like it'll fix the problem.   Like Smooth Groove mentioned, the better hardware does help, but the amount of boost you get from upgrading your hardware in that game is a hell of a lot less than in other games.

If I had to rebuild my PC gaming setup from scratch, I'd try to do so for about $1000 (without the 24" LCD included), and use the rest of the money for games and gaming peripherals (a decent wheel and HOTAS, but I admit those are because I like sim racers and flight sims).

[abrader]

I just priced out an HP Blackbird and its a much better deal.

I still got up into the $5,000 range.

I think im just gonna get one of the support/ops guys to build a system for me.

I see that there are tremendous savings to be had by building yer own.

[Smooth Groove]

You save alot of money if you go with a DDR2 instead of a DDR3 system.  High performance DDR3 is just way too expensive right now.  Also, get at least a 1000W power supply if you plan to use 2 of the highest end videocards. 

Get a 30" monitor too if you have the money.  Gaming on a 30 incher is awesome.   

[demi]

SC2, DoW2, WAR, WOTLK.

Snore

[Smooth Groove]

Why do you need two DVD burners?
Sorry for the serious reply, but my curiosity was piqued.
Also, you may as well go for 4 GB of RAM if you're spending that much already.

So PCs use 1200W PSUs these days? Jesus h. christ. Fossil fuels am cry.

It's really just Nvidia that's still making power inefficient hardware.  If you go with an ATI setup, you don't need as much power.  In terms of CPU, both Intel and AMD have been making processors that are very power efficient. 

[demi]

Why do you need two DVD burners?
Sorry for the serious reply, but my curiosity was piqued.
Also, you may as well go for 4 GB of RAM if you're spending that much already.

So PCs use 1200W PSUs these days? Jesus h. christ. Fossil fuels am cry.

It's only for overkill dual - or in abrader's case, triple - card machines

I only have a 450W

[abrader]

So it seems like ill do better by putting more $$ into;

- display (30")

- the video hardware

- good KBD/mouse.

[abrader]

Why do you need two DVD burners?
Sorry for the serious reply, but my curiosity was piqued.
Also, you may as well go for 4 GB of RAM if you're spending that much already.

So PCs use 1200W PSUs these days? Jesus h. christ. Fossil fuels am cry.

I dont even need one DVD burner on the gaming machine - they just throw them in.

[abrader]

Demi - plug it with a tampon already - for fucks sake yer a whiney bitch today

[abrader]

for fucks sake - im just shy about building as I havent put a tower together since the 486 days.

IM GONNA DO IT AND LEARN!

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and save like $3,000 in the process

[close]

EDIT: Also if I build my own, I wont get a box loaded with shit ware that needs to be reformatted right away.

[Fragamemnon]

So it seems like ill do better by putting more $$ into;

- display (30")

- the video hardware

- good KBD/mouse.

I definitely agree about getting good video hardware and a good KBD/mouse. I dunno about a 30" display-I think that 24" LCDs are the current sweet spot for PC gaming at this point. 30" displays mean super-high native resolutions, I think you're probably better off at 1920x1200 or something and cranking up visual fidelity.

EDIT: Also if I build my own, I wont get a box loaded with shit ware that needs to be reformatted right away.

And if something breaks in a year or you just want to put a new fan in or what not, you know exactly what you are working with and not working with a "black box" design you didn't put together. Though I agree not having to reinstall to purge the shitware is also a really big plus.

[Great Rumbler]

Building your own computer is just fun, anyway; well aside from all the little problems that are bound to crop up as you're getting everything running. And it really makes the computer feel like it actually belongs to you.

[Smooth Groove]

I definitely agree about getting good video hardware and a good KBD/mouse. I dunno about a 30" display-I think that 24" LCDs are the current sweet spot for PC gaming at this point. 30" displays mean super-high native resolutions, I think you're probably better off at 1920x1200 or something and cranking up visual fidelity.

Two 8800 GTXes or higher end cards should be good enough to drive a 30" monitor.  Also, you don't necessarily have to game at the native resolutions.  Some of the 30 inchers have good scalers and not everyone have good enough eyes to spot stuff running at non-native resolution. 

[abrader]

You really are jumping in to PC gaming or is this some kind of a joke thread?

This isnt a joke thread - I have thought about it in the past and also almost bought some mega bloated PC last year. (thread around here somewhere)

[Draft]

You really are jumping in to PC gaming or is this some kind of a joke thread?

Clearly a joke thread.

[Rman]

You really are jumping in to PC gaming or is this some kind of a joke thread?

I don't think so.  Abrader has mentioned his interest in PC gaming in the past.

[abrader]

Its also not like I havent PC games before (back in the DOS/win 3.1 386/486 days)

I never owned a pentium hahah

Blizzard games on OS X was the gateway drug this time.

[abrader]

I use to rock rogue.exe, zork, jumpman, Ultima, sopwith, thexder, kings quest 1-3, space quest, alone in the dark, flashback, rise of the triad, wolf 3d, doom, doom2, marble madness and a ton of other shyt i cant remember. Heh Pool of Radiance and Eye of the Beholder.

Ultima fucking underworld.

bitches i even finished all of the commander keen games.

[Flannel Boy]

The difference in performance between a $1,000 machine and a $5,000 machine isn't worth the difference in cost. It would make more sense to buy a $1,000 computer and replace it every couple of years. That $1,000 computer two years from now will outperform the $5,000 computer you buy today.

I'd just buy a computer with an e8400, four gigs of ram, and a 4870. It would cost less than a grand and run everything except Crysis very well.

Fuck Crysis and fuck expensive, power-hungry penis extenders

[laesperanzapaz]

1. dont take Smooth's advice for that monitor.  You don't that huge resolution unless who are truly hardcore.  It's obvious from this thread, you are certainly not.

2. you CERTAINLY dont need 1000W PSU, unless you  are doing crossfire, SLI, or really high end GPU [GTX 280].  Depending on your final build, I say 400-600 W

3. do you like money? do you also like performance? get Radeon HD 4750 or 4780.  Cheaper, but still awesome cards are also there [HD 3750/80, 8800 GT [or GTX] ]

4.  Get a nice almost-3Ghz dual core from Intel.  Unless all you'd do is gaming on that PC, which I doubt, CPU is really the most important component in terms of performance for your every day activities

5.  Nice case, kb and mouse...dont really know too much about cases and mobos, unfortunately.

6.  avoid $2000 or more pre-made gaming rigs no matter what...which is pretty much all of them :/

You only need to spend $1000-ish to get  REAALY great computer.  This doesnt include monitor, which is most expensive portion, unfortuntately

for more:
http://techreport.com/articles.x/15009

your welcom, bitch

[Smooth Groove]

Why shouldn't Abrader buy a 30" monitor if he can afford it?  They're made for gamers that can spend as much as they want. 

[laesperanzapaz]

Why shouldn't Abrader buy a 30" monitor if he can afford it?  They're made for gamers that can spend as much as they want. 

obviously if he has the money and willingness to splurge on the monitor and cards, then by all means.

I'm just a money conscious guy that s all

[WrikaWrek]

I guess laying of the coke frees up some funds.

[abrader]

I am tempted by 30". I am using a 20inch for my desktop macs and a 40inch for my PS3.

Cant I just HDMI out from most vid cards to my 40 inch HDTV? OR am I missing something as to why that wont be as good?

I have decided that I will wait and buy a computer this year as my christmas present to myself - plus it gives me more time to think everything thru - I was 50 x noob when i made this thread - now I think I have a better handle on best ethics;

- Invest in displays, video hardware

- spend less now and buy a system that you upgrade each year instead of buying the highest spec CPU, etc now

- high DPI mouse is critical

- no gay gamepads

- glossy screen is better for the HD contrast

- smaller capacity higher speed harddrives for gaming only windows machine. macs are for media

- no gay case LED's that generate unnecessary heat.

- cool the video hardware

is that pretty much it?

[Smooth Groove]

Glossy screens suck actually.  Both TVC and I agree that matte is much better for computer displays. 

Also, there's no problem with using a pad if that's what you like.  Many new PC games will recognize the 360 controller and have the proper controller layout. 

[Smooth Groove]

If you will buy a 30" display doesn't that mean it will have the default res some godly 2500x1600? That means you should be playing most if not all games in that res and believe me that most new games if not all won't play @ 30 fps in that native resolution. Don't overdo it man!

You don't have to use that native resolution though.  That was my pt.  I only have a 24 incher myself but from what I've read from other PC gamers, there're a few 30" mons that scale really well from 1920x1200.  Of course, it'd still be best to run the games at native resolution but that would require a top end videocard or two. 

[abrader]

I have seen what games do hen I bump up the max rez.

Right now my max is 1680 x 1050.

Im thinking im gonna go 24" for the new monitor - non glossy too, I did some looking and I see what SG/TVC mean.