Right now I have an Acer Aspire M3201. The only game I really want to play right now is Starcraft II, and SRtest.com says my system is well above the minimum specs. I'd like to take the plunge into PC gaming though and start saving up for a new rig. There's plenty of topics about specific builds but I just wanted to gauge about how much money I need to save up.....
I'm looking a high end PC that I won't have to upgrade for a couple years. Some games I am interested in playing in the future are Diablo 3, The Old Republic MMO, Portal 2, and Dues Ex. About how much would a quality PC that would easily run these titles be? I don't need specific builds or anything right now, just an estimate of the total cost. I will be getting a new monitor, keyboard, mouse, and speakers as well. Thanks.
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Price range for a gaming PC?
Check out this thread:
http://www.giantbomb.com/pc/60-94/gaming-pcs-what-to-buy-and-how-to-build/35-420988/#54
EDIT: Also, it's impossible to tell you how much you need to spend to play the games you've listed because none of them have had their system requirements released, and most of them are pretty far off.
I spent about $1100 on mine, including everything. There's a few things I would change now (at this point, definitely would go quad core, I have a Core 2 Duo now, maybe a newer video card... my first upgrade is definitely going to be an SSD, though) that would bump the price up a bit... maybe $1400 new. That would be lower if you don't have to buy peripherals, obviously... that was like $300 of my build. Not sure what the requirements are going to look like for Deus Ex, that would probably be the most complex of the games you listed, and the setup I have should be able to at least push native resolution, maybe not maxed out though.
tl;dr: $1000 to $1500. Hope this helps... I'm super-tired right now, so it might not all make sense.
A grand should be enough for a sufficient rig. Even better if you can build it yourself. For instance, awhile back there was a bundle for a good AMD motherboard combined with one of their new 6 core processors for just over $200. That's $200 for what are normally two of your more expensive parts, and enough power to run anything. I'd normally say stick with Intel for the sheer power/performance/energy efficiency, but I'd always recommend AMD for those on a tight budget.
Some videocards are expensive and they really add to the overall cost, like $350-$500 more to your cost. If you choose very carefully maybe you can keep it near a grand if your starting from scratch and not recycling anything. You might have to buy a cheaper mobo, maybe us a AMD cpu, cheap ram buy windows 7. Or else you can just get a cheap videocard, the gtx460 1gb that seems like the best deal ever. You get enough power for only $220-$250. However a monitor might cost like $200 or more. A gaming pc isn't cheap, it's quite an investment and quite a luxury.
I would check out Tom's hardware. They are my favorite site when deciding on new builds. Every month they recommend different processors, and video cards. In different price ranges. What's even better they do new computer builds all the time. Usually in 3 different price ranges, for example $500, $1000, $2000. Then they run performance tests and give recommendations on which build they like. Really good stuff!
I'm not sure what the other people in this topic are talking about but for around $800-$1000 CND you can build yourself a fast computer and that also includes buying a monitor lol.
" I'm not sure what the other people in this topic are talking about but for around $800-$1000 CND you can build yourself a fast computer and that also includes buying a monitor lol. "I'm gonna want some proof of what you consider a fast computer as well as what mythical store you can buy that from. LMAO
Depends on what you are going to put inside it.
Are you going to build it yourself? You will save up to 300-400 bucks if you buy the components individually.
You should do some serious research on sites like TomsHardware or PC-building sites.
i built a good budget gaming machine for $600, not including monitor. make sure you future-proof your machine with a good high-end processor though, so that you can easily upgrade video cards and ram as tech advances for a few years without having to worry about building a whole new system.
" @ISuperGamerI said:Newegg" I'm not sure what the other people in this topic are talking about but for around $800-$1000 CND you can build yourself a fast computer and that also includes buying a monitor lol. "I'm gonna want some proof of what you consider a fast computer as well as what mythical store you can buy that from. LMAO "
Seconded, why in the world would you spend more than $900 on a new PC? You'll spend less later just upgrading the graphics card." I'm not sure what the other people in this topic are talking about but for around $800-$1000 CND you can build yourself a fast computer and that also includes buying a monitor lol. "
About $1500...here you go.
http://www.tested.com/news/video-how-to-build-the-best-1500-gaming-pc-step-by-step/152/
Just go all out so you don't have to upgrade anytime soon.
$2500 and you'll be good to go for 6 years or so.
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