$160 on Amazon right now.
Was $99 in store pickup at Microcenter before the Rona
$160 on Amazon right now.
The short answer is that you absolutely do not need to spend anywhere near that much on the PC, lower end parts are where the value lies. Displays are a separate animal. The ones for computers tend to have better refresh rates and color accuracy plus you sit much closer to them so there's no reason for them to be huge.MrH42 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 1:55 pm So I've been gaming on my old 2012 iMac, running boot camp. I basically play one PC game: Overwatch. That's it.
Considered building a gaming PC though. For a really nice monitor + good gaming PC, I'm looking at $2,000 for the PC and $500-$1000 for the monitor.
You can get a 75" 4K HDR TV for $700 and the PS5 is rumored to be $500...
I don't know if the market is just small enough they can get away with it, but I don't understand the pricing of the PC gaming world at all.
I've been playing Overwatch on a 60 hz iMac, so if I'm going to jump in, I want to go at least 120 hz. But this is also my WFH setup, so I want big screen real estate. I was considering one of those 49" super ultra wide, but you apparently need a 2080 ti to even run 5120 x 1440 at 120+ hz. That's a $1200 video card needed.troyguitar wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 2:00 pmThe short answer is that you absolutely do not need to spend anywhere near that much on the PC, lower end parts are where the value lies. Displays are a separate animal. The ones for computers tend to have better refresh rates and color accuracy plus you sit much closer to them so there's no reason for them to be huge.MrH42 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 1:55 pm So I've been gaming on my old 2012 iMac, running boot camp. I basically play one PC game: Overwatch. That's it.
Considered building a gaming PC though. For a really nice monitor + good gaming PC, I'm looking at $2,000 for the PC and $500-$1000 for the monitor.
You can get a 75" 4K HDR TV for $700 and the PS5 is rumored to be $500...
I don't know if the market is just small enough they can get away with it, but I don't understand the pricing of the PC gaming world at all.
Like I'm still running stuff just fine on an ancient i5-6600 and a GTX 1060 and 23" 1080p monitor. The monitor is 16" from my face so why bother with a bigger one?
MrH42 wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 2:10 pmI've been playing Overwatch on a 60 hz iMac, so if I'm going to jump in, I want to go at least 120 hz. But this is also my WFH setup, so I want big screen real estate. I was considering one of those 49" super ultra wide, but you apparently need a 2080 ti to even run 5120 x 1440 at 120+ hz. That's a $1200 video card needed.troyguitar wrote: ↑Tue Jun 30, 2020 2:00 pm
The short answer is that you absolutely do not need to spend anywhere near that much on the PC, lower end parts are where the value lies. Displays are a separate animal. The ones for computers tend to have better refresh rates and color accuracy plus you sit much closer to them so there's no reason for them to be huge.
Like I'm still running stuff just fine on an ancient i5-6600 and a GTX 1060 and 23" 1080p monitor. The monitor is 16" from my face so why bother with a bigger one?
Just seems crazy we'll be getting similar performance out of console systems for $500 total in the fall.
Thanks. It's not a conscious decision, just posting about what I'm doing these days. I've been stuck at home since March 13th. Sim racing/PC/F1 has been my obsession since.
How is your friends son doing? The one with the neck injury. I think about him from time to time when I think things are bad.
Thanks for asking. His spirits have been up as he's able to do quite a bit with technology that's available these days but sadly he is totally paralyzed waist down and has very limited movement with his hands. This fall he was supposed to go back to Duke (where the freak accident happened) and finish school. It really is a heartbreaker but this kid has strong will.
Strange what sticks with you but for some reason that story stuck with me. Probably the way it happened. I try to be easier on my son because of it. My first thought is to tell him "no" all the time.Thedude wrote: ↑Fri Jul 10, 2020 2:07 pmThanks for asking. His spirits have been up as he's able to do quite a bit with technology that's available these days but sadly he is totally paralyzed waist down and has very limited movement with his hands. This fall he was supposed to go back to Duke (where the freak accident happened) and finish school. It really is a heartbreaker but this kid has strong will.
My wife was having studdering issues on her machine, so we upgraded her video card to the GTX 1660 Ti. Best budget card I could find in the $300 range.3rdgenfan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:03 pm I got tired of the stuttering in COD:MW/Warzone and Flight Sim 2020 that I went to price out a new rig, signed into the cart and hit paypal only to I guess remember I had one-click setup and it brought me to the "Heres your order page" Right about then is when all of the reviews I wasn't able to find popped up and said avoid the R7 3800XT at all costs....and then woke up the next morning and Newegg canceled my order, so I guess it was a mix of meant to be and my address not being correct.
Took the opportunity to switch it up back to Intel...I figure since I'm using a 3rd gen i5 still then it'd only make sense to go back with them.
i7-10700K
Asus ROG Z490-I Gaming
32GB DDR4-3600 ram
2tb Samsung 970 Evo Plus m.2 drive
Corsair 750 80+Gold modular PSU
NZXT H210 ITX case in matte black
All coolers/fans are going to be Noctua chromax.black fans, hoping for a silent build.
Due to GPU costs I'll be recycling my 980Ti into this build for the time being, I don't feel it'd be much of a bottleneck just yet but I want to wait and see what the RTX cards will drop down into.
Will post a pic once it's together.
It pains me to see a AAA title game be that unoptimized. I upgraded to W10 a year or two ago, trying to find one of my W7 Pro keys so I can get the new rig installed with W10.Acid666 wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:16 pmMy wife was having studdering issues on her machine, so we upgraded her video card to the GTX 1660 Ti. Best budget card I could find in the $300 range.3rdgenfan wrote: ↑Mon Aug 24, 2020 1:03 pm I got tired of the stuttering in COD:MW/Warzone and Flight Sim 2020 that I went to price out a new rig, signed into the cart and hit paypal only to I guess remember I had one-click setup and it brought me to the "Heres your order page" Right about then is when all of the reviews I wasn't able to find popped up and said avoid the R7 3800XT at all costs....and then woke up the next morning and Newegg canceled my order, so I guess it was a mix of meant to be and my address not being correct.
Took the opportunity to switch it up back to Intel...I figure since I'm using a 3rd gen i5 still then it'd only make sense to go back with them.
i7-10700K
Asus ROG Z490-I Gaming
32GB DDR4-3600 ram
2tb Samsung 970 Evo Plus m.2 drive
Corsair 750 80+Gold modular PSU
NZXT H210 ITX case in matte black
All coolers/fans are going to be Noctua chromax.black fans, hoping for a silent build.
Due to GPU costs I'll be recycling my 980Ti into this build for the time being, I don't feel it'd be much of a bottleneck just yet but I want to wait and see what the RTX cards will drop down into.
Will post a pic once it's together.
On my machine, I was having issues with Warzone as well, so I bought some new ram to bump that up. I also had a friend look at it and he realized a few things that were eating into my frame rate. 1) I was still running Windows7. 2) I need to be running in fullscreen mode, not fullscreen windowed mode.
In order for me to even get fullscreen mode, I had to upgrade to Windows10 because I needed DirectX12, and Windows7 only supported up to DirectX11. So that alone was hindering me. So just by going to Win10 and upping my ram, I was able to take more advantage of my i5 3.4ghz by letting Windows10 make it run more efficiently and it completely changed how Warzone plays. I was getting 10 second freezups, and now I only occasionally get them and they're only for 1s.