Subjective Gaming Experience Playing On Budget £300 PC or Super High End £3000 PC. Does It Make Much

I am still using a 5770, and these days it would fall into the category of a budget gaming system. I also have no desire to upgrade it just yet when it can run games smooth at medium/high settings at 1080p.

Like stated above, a lot of games don't see much change in visual quality from medium to high settings, which is a good thing when it comes to buying a cheap rig to run games.

Right now in this current generation when it comes to expensive vs cheap specs you wont see much difference when comparing them both.
 
you'd be lucky if £300 system ran anything bar casual games. That said, if i sold an old gaming pc with a GTX295 for for a similar price, you could run BF3 on high quite nicely, suppose it depends if you go second hand or not!

a £1000 system will play almost anything. But not many people are enthusiastic enough or have the income to afford one of these.

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name89 said:
you'd be lucky if £300 system ran anything bar casual games. That said, if i sold an old gaming pc with a GTX295 for for a similar price, you could run BF3 on high quite nicely, suppose it depends if you go second hand or not!
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My old set-up which is a quad Q6600, Asus P5K M/board, ATI 5850 and 4 gig of Corsair RAM; really lucky if i got £150 for this system second hand - i mean really lucky - reckon my rig is similar to the £300 system new and still runs most games at high/medium settings at 1080p at a respectable frame rate (30 - 45fps)

Seems to me, but might be wrong, that gaming PCs have a much longer lifespan performance wise since around 2006-2007, is this purely because nearly everything is a console port like someone mentioned earlier?

DX11 was meant to be the next big thing when the first batch of Directx 11 cards comeout around 2010 but most seem to be Directx 9 console ports, so the power in DX11 cards even as old as my ATI 5850 still hold their own 3 years later.

Any games you know of that are really pushing the boundaries to make that £3000 big budget PC worth buying?
 
I just don't know were to start. The selection of components is truly bizare for the high end rig. A revo drive in gaming rig is just daft. My biggest gripe with the review is that totaly misses the point of a £3000 rig: Very high res gaming, 2560x 1440 and above. Its pretty common knowldge that at 1080p you don't need a £3000 rig. Truly bizzare.
 
LEE929394 said:
My old set-up which is a quad Q6600, Asus P5K M/board, ATI 5850 and 4 gig of Corsair RAM; really lucky if i got £150 for this system second hand - i mean really lucky - reckon my rig is similar to the £300 system new and still runs most games at high/medium settings at 1080p at a respectable frame rate (30 - 45fps)

Seems to me, but might be wrong, that gaming PCs have a much longer lifespan performance wise since around 2006-2007, is this purely because nearly everything is a console port like someone mentioned earlier?

DX11 was meant to be the next big thing when the first batch of Directx 11 cards comeout around 2010 but most seem to be Directx 9 console ports, so the power in DX11 cards even as old as my ATI 5850 still hold their own 3 years later.

Any games you know of that are really pushing the boundaries to make that £3000 big budget PC worth buying?
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You may be right there, my rig has lasted nearly 3 years now, it is an i5 750+ 460 SLI and still runs pretty much everything max
 
Omaeka said:
A decent £1,000 PC will run anything above 30fps, I don't see the point of a £3,000 one? :confused:

£300 though... can you even play a modern game on one of those? :confused:
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haha you could build a pretty decent pc for 300 quid second hand

amd 6 core with a 6970 or like will eat through most things

can you notice it depends on the game you play at end of day. in some you wont in others its massive
 
~>Dg<~ said:
haha you could build a pretty decent pc for 300 quid second hand

amd 6 core with a 6970 or like will eat through most things

can you notice it depends on the game you play at end of day. in some you wont in others its massive
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The test they did is flawed imo. A bit more thought was needed. But you are right in that it depends on the person.
 
We got the hardware but haven't got the games.Its mostly console ports not many traditional built from the ground up pc games anymore mainly because of greedy game devs.Can you justify spending 1000s of pounds on a super high end rig when there is only a trickle of new games that will actually make use of the hardware fully.
 
I think the average Joe would be able to tell the difference between running a high-spec game at 720p at 30FPS on low graphics to playing at 1080p at 60+fps with everything on high across the board.

My rig cost me about £1000 (minus the upgrades like an SSD that don't directly affect in-game performance) and I'd be shocked if someone couldn't tell the difference between this and a £300 machine. Any sensible £3000 machine would eat any game currently out, a £300 machine would struggle to run most current games on high enough to be playable.
 
ThomBassmonkey said:
a £300 machine would struggle to run most current games on high enough to be playable.
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Unless made of second hand parts :p An old core2duo system with a GPU like a 460 is still surprisingly capable these days at 1080p. It might not be able to max every game out but it would be able to run most on highish settings.

I usually build mid to high end once every few years, once frame rates start slowing down when maxing out the games i play i replace a part or build afresh. I don't think i could do without all the bells and whistles in games, if i could then i'd just buy a console.
 
You don't need an SSD, you don't even need a really really fast cpu. You just need to spend 80% of the budget on the GPU.

Buy a tiny 5400rpm hard drive.
£200 cpu
£150 1080p screen.
no case :)
4x 7970 or 4x 680GTXs
compatible motherboard
powerful enough psu
4gb RAM :)
then check if you can see the difference :)
 
And our budget-oriented alternative? It's less than £300
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AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black Edition
Price: £101
Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3
Price: £82
AMD Radeon HD 6850
Price: £103
G.Skill Trident DDR3
Price: £36
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000
Price: £80
Cooler Master Silent Pro 800W
Price: £99


TOTAL = £501........:rolleyes::rolleyes:

And what a case/dvd-rom /etc
 
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chaparral said:
AMD Phenom II X4 960T Black Edition
Price: £101
Gigabyte GA-970A-UD3
Price: £82
AMD Radeon HD 6850
Price: £103
G.Skill Trident DDR3
Price: £36
Hitachi Deskstar 7K1000
Price: £80
Cooler Master Silent Pro 800W
Price: £99


TOTAL = £501........:rolleyes::rolleyes:

And what a case/dvd-rom /etc
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I was thinking that too, no way they made that rig for £300
 
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