Can run any game @ max settings! (Pet hate)

Twincam

Twincam

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This is an absolute pet hate of mine and a bit of a rant.
Where in an ad for a gaming PC that's clearly way over priced and/or has ancient or lower end hardware.
You get the statement "can run any game at max settings" or something or other like that. And you look at the specs and think no, no really it can't.

I don't mind people saying that if the PC can actually do that but looking on most ads it seems 90% of the time someone is going to be hugely disappointed that what there buying will not come anywhere near running modern games or even slightly older titles at anything near max settings. I for one when coming back to PC ownership nearly fell for this good thing I did a bit of research. But many people won't, and shall just think it's a good PC as it's expensive and the guy said it will play any game at a certain level.

For the record I don't mean ads on this site as for one I don't have that privilege. But on a famous auction site and a famous local sales site. It's very prevalent. It's misleading and wrong.
 
The PC will be able to run any game at max settings for that PC. It will probably run sliowly. But it will run them. So unfortunately it's often an accurate statement. But I agree with you that it is misleading.
 
I will also add in.
"This is a beast of a PC, will do anything, play any game at max settings" or words to that effect.

Followed by "only selling due to upgrade"

Errm ok if it's that good why the upgrade?.
 
Hades said:
The PC will be able to run any game at max settings for that PC. It will probably run sliowly. But it will run them. So unfortunately it's often an accurate statement. But I agree with you that it is misleading.
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Oh I agree. It could be also that someone's idea of max settings is different from someone else's. Unfortunately it's more the case of misleading people.
 
Twincam said:
I will also add in.
"This is a beast of a PC, will do anything, play any game at max settings" or words to that effect.

Followed by "only selling due to upgrade"

Errm ok if it's that good why the upgrade?.
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Because we can? Most people upgrade because they like being at the forefront of technology not because their PC's are struggling to run games.
 
Glanza said:
Because we can? Most people upgrade because they like being at the forefront of technology not because their PC's are struggling to run games.
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I fully understand that. And I'm the same.
But in this case it's to mislead people into thinking the PC is going to be the best thing ever, so to say.
I don't mind such statements when there true but most of the time the statement is paired with an entirely inadequate PC lol.

It just really bothers me that people are going to get effectively ripped off. Yes people should do there homework but not everyone fully understands all the tech.
 
I got into it with a 'review' on here of a GPU over the same thing. Turns out the reviewer was a mod and he didn't take kindly to me calling out the misleading claims about how people who bought the GPU wouldn't need to turn down settings in their games, although they obviously would.

I suppose I should realize what forum this is and toe the line when it comes to this stuff, even if I dont like it. The best I can hope is that consumers do research of their own. I am a big proponent of consumer responsibility. We've all dealt with waves of misleading advertising and claims throughout our lives and I feel like we should be prepared enough to be able to make own judgements now that we have the entire internet as a resource at our fingertips. It's harder than ever to make a bad purchase if you just take a bit of time to look into what you're getting.
 
Minimum Spec = the worst PC that will actually run the game. No guarantee of playability.

Recommended Spec = what you need before the game is playable at 30 fps with graphics at medium settings.
 
I find it amusing rather than annoying when I see people selling 'gaming PCs with 2GB Graphics Card" with an AMD 5450 :p. Also on Gumtree when I see a year old PC priced at more than they would cost to build new right now.

My favourite though is when I picked up a Q6600 on Gumtree and was told he reached 4GHz on the stock cooler "and would probably reach 6 or 7GHz with a big cooler" :D
 
I sometimes look through gumtree at the pc ads just for entertainment. You'll have a pc with something like a 6 core phenom! With an AMD 6950.....runs all games at max with high frames even bf4 and Witcher 3. <---- Real ad I saw recently, can't remember how much it was though.

Makes I many laughs
 
jamiehard1989 said:
Have a look at this 6ghz desktop

http://m.ebay.co.uk/itm/Windows-7-Dell-Dual-Core-6-00Ghz-Desktop-Tower-PC-Computer-4GB-RAM-500GB-HDD-/231125416327?nav=SEARCH
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I can't follow that link at work. Has he added the clock speed for each core together, by chance?

Regarding why people would upgrade a PC that can run anything at max - who's that guy in the Graphics Cards subforum who bought quad Titans and has upgraded since? People spending silly money they don't need in a specialist power computing store's forum, who'da thunk it.
 
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