The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy 417
SlappingOysters writes "Gameplayer has gone live with their best PC hardware configurations for Q3 2008. They've broken it into three tiers depending on the investor's budget. And while the prices are regional, it is comparative across the globe. 'In order to play these slices of gaming goodness, you're going to need a decent rig, and we sent our PC hardware guru in search of maximum frames in maximum detail, but at a minimum cost. We have three tiers for the three levels of PC gamers out there and all the detail you could possibly want on where, why and what to buy. So choose your poison and get amongst it.'"
Yes, but... (Score:5, Funny)
What kind of telnet programs do they come with for mudding?
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luv 2 brag (Score:3, Funny)
I bought a new computer, so I love to brag about the deal I got.
e8500, 4gb ddr2 1066, p5q-3, 4870, freezer 7 pro, rosewill case, 250 gb hd = $1050
had vista64 for free
plays crysis at high "near 60 fps" and everything else to the max
no microstuttering
me = happy
games? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:The investor's budget? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:$10K US for a gaming rig? (Score:5, Funny)
Don't forget, you're talking about the same kind of people who will spend months clacking away on a fake guitar with the goal of making a digital crowd cheer when they could be practicing with a REAL guitar, get REAL cheers and likely get laid for REAL too.
Re:$10K US for a gaming rig? (Score:5, Funny)
Holy shit, I'm buying a guitar right fucking now!
Re:luv 2 brag (Score:5, Funny)
I feel really old right now because I don't understand a single thing you wrote.
Buying guide... (Score:5, Funny)
They should come up with a set of configurations for the best /.-proof PC servers for 2008 as well.
Re:luv 2 brag (Score:5, Funny)
Vista 64 was free, huh?
Re:$10K US for a gaming rig? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:luv 2 brag (Score:2, Funny)
250 gb hd
What, they still make computers with such a pittance of space?! Or was the 250gb drive just something you found discarded in a dumpster?
Re:$10K US for a gaming rig? (Score:4, Funny)
I was at a Sam Goody store which happened to have a Guitar Hero game set up. It also had a guitar / amp package they were selling set up. Crappy guitar, worse amp... but whatever.
Some dork was trying to play Guitar Hero and impress 3 girls. Song: Bark at the Moon.
So I pick up the real guitar, and start playing Bark at the Moon on the real guitar.
You've never seen three heads whip around like that. Poor guy. I got all his attention.
He writes lyrics too (Score:3, Funny)
and all he can play is Come as you are [youtube.com]
Real rock stars are not on Slashdot/
Playing a bass makes a guitar player not.
Re:oh christ (Score:5, Funny)
What do you mean, "this month"? Priorities, man, food or bleedin' edge hardware, pick one!
Re:Give a hoot! Recycle! (Score:4, Funny)
maybe you should mount your wife's box more often?
Her box is way too huge, and you can tell that lots of things have been taken in and lots of things pulled out that it looks a little bruised. Plus, it just looks too old, and it's always making noises. You learn to ignore it. These days MicroATX boxes are the thing; smaller, tighter, and they're portable - so it doesn't matter where you go, you can always bring along the box to play with.
You can make a bloody mess if you try to stick your peripheral in that kind of box when it just doesn't fit.
yes, nawcom knows he is twisted and sick.
Re:$10K US for a gaming rig? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:$10K US for a gaming rig? (Score:5, Funny)
Don't forget, you're talking about the same kind of people who will spend months clacking away on a fake guitar with the goal of making a digital crowd cheer when they could be practicing with a REAL guitar, get REAL cheers and likely get laid for REAL too.
Funny you should mention that, they're working on Masturbation Hero. You'll get a load out of the controller for that game.
Re:Bad Suggestions for 1000-2000$ (Score:3, Funny)
1 GB / $ HD? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:luv 2 brag (Score:5, Funny)
Allow me to try and explain ...
He said:
e8500 ... hmmm maybe its a new eMachine that he used as a base to build on? ... ah! he picked up "Four "Gnarly-Bro" Dance Dance Revolution 2 pads. "1066" you'll notice is 42 more than 1024, so 1066 is just a "Really Cool" in binary. ... well ... CPUs are hot nowadays so he bought an air conditioner to cool the room down. Quite sensible. ... hmmm must be one of those cases with alien eyes on it or something. I guess he'll pull the guts out of the e8500 and put them in there so it looks cool? ... ah. He also picked up 250 "Gnarly-Bro" HighDensity floppies. Must be to back up his save games and make "backup" copies for friends.
4gb ddr2 1066
freezer 7 pro
rosewill case
250 gb hd
Sounds like a neat gaming rig ...
Then again maybe it was l33t speak? ... or not ;)
Re:The investor's budget? (Score:5, Funny)
guaranteed to decrease in value over time
True and stated: Whenever you buy a computer C at time t0, there's a time t1 > t0 such that val(t0, C) < val(t1, C).
Possible and not stated: there is a time t2 >> t1, such that val(t2, C) > val(t0, C), due to num(t2, C) << num(t0, C).
That is, your old Amiga 500 might become a collectors item some day :)
Re:$10K US for a gaming rig? (Score:5, Funny)
I can play most of Neil Young's Heart of Gold on real guitar.
That's the kind of risk you take when you decide to learn to play guitar.
Re:oh christ (Score:2, Funny)
What do you mean, "this month"? Priorities, man, food or bleedin' edge hardware, pick one!
If he ain't starving yet, he needs to turn in his geek card. Now.
Re:Lame (Score:1, Funny)
Web Server System
CPU: Intel Pentium MMX 200Mhz (got from grandma when we bought her a new system for christmas last year)
RAM: 128 MB EDO (paid way too much on ebay but motherboard requires it)
Motherboard: dunno, but has phoenix bios
GPU: Trident S3 Trio 8MB PCI (found in dumpster)
OS: Windows ME (pirated)
Server: PWS
Optical Drive: None
Storage: 8GB WDC (found on side of road, 70% blocks are good)
Re:$10K US for a gaming rig? (Score:2, Funny)
Re:oh christ (Score:5, Funny)
You don't need to starve, brother. There's a lot of fiber in newspaper and if you flush it down with some coke, you even have the essential dose of caffeine for the day. You can grind and dissolve stale bread in (lots of) water and drink the slurry (again, coke makes things interesting here, too!) to fill your stomach...
Can you tell I just spent 2k on a new monitor system? :)
Re:$10K US for a gaming rig? (Score:5, Funny)
Re:The investor's budget? (Score:5, Funny)
Apparently, it's worth twice as much with a full tank as with an empty one.
What levels are these? (Score:5, Funny)
From the prices I assume those levels are "lives in own property", "lives with parents", and "purely hypothetical".
Re:oh christ (Score:5, Funny)
As a transplanted Floridian, I heartily recommend the palmetto bugs. You can put them on a stick and roast them over an open flame or just fry 'em up in a pan.
Mmmmm....Crunchy.
Up North, I hear you can do much the same with various small rodents.
Re:The investor's budget? (Score:3, Funny)
Re:The investor's budget? (Score:3, Funny)