Future proof pc?

[Doomedspeed]

As for your analogy i see your point, but could you built a pc that can compete with new consoles?, at the moment the ps4 is £350 and the xbox one is £400 with titanfall.

Like the car/train analogy, these are two seperate things...

I had a patch of moaning about pc/console comparisons when the new gen was about to be realeased and i still stick by my thoughts.

They can't and shouldn't ever be compared.

Lets go back to the car/train analogy.

A PC is a car, its gets you from A to B, but A and B is dependant on you, whereas a train (console) has a pre-descirbed A and B (this analogy is for games mods/skyrim).

A car is personal, it can be you're favourite colour, it has hardware (engine/brakes/tyres) to suit you're needs; a train is a one size fits all.

You can personalise your car, add modifcations/upgrade the hardware, fluffy dice, wide tyres. A train can't.

And a train is more social..

Ill stop this now.

 

[Wilko_Dog]

I spent 1600 quid on a pc in 2010 .. Made sure I picked a good mobo and CPU at the time , lasted me well , just upgraded the gpu last week to an amd R970x for £170 and it runs titanfall on max settings, should last me another 2-3 years while I save for a complete new rig .. So if your spending like 2k I would say from my experience you will be fine for a good few years

 

[hawkhench]

You'd struggle to build a PC for the same price as a console that let you play games in 1080p well. Use the money you save on paying lower prices for PC games over console games to upgrade every couple of years and you'll get much better performance in the long run.

You also manage to lose about 75% of the raging kiddies who seem to live online on consoles too. Win/win really

 

[DaleTheWhale]

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This will set you up for dual 290's, or in the future what ever next gen cards are out.

Single card + 2/3 years = Sell & buy new card.
New card + 2 years = Sell & buy new card.

CPU and the rest of it will be perfectly fine for the next 5 years.
PSU has 10 years warranty and will handle 2/3 cards perfectly fine.

 

[JimJoeRooney]

Like the car/train analogy, these are two seperate things...

I had a patch of moaning about pc/console comparisons when the new gen was about to be realeased and i still stick by my thoughts.

They can't and shouldn't ever be compared.

Lets go back to the car/train analogy.

A PC is a car, its gets you from A to B, but A and B is dependant on you, whereas a train (console) has a pre-descirbed A and B (this analogy is for games mods/skyrim).

A car is personal, it can be you're favourite colour, it has hardware (engine/brakes/tyres) to suit you're needs; a train is a one size fits all.

You can personalise your car, add modifcations/upgrade the hardware, fluffy dice, wide tyres. A train can't.

And a train is more social..

Ill stop this now.

I like this analogy, it definetly makes it more understandable why im spending so much and as other posters have said i can update the graphics card and a few other things every 2 or 3 years for little money but still stay ahead of the consoles. so yeah it makes good sense now.

 

[spoffle]

Im not complaining it cost more i just wanted to know that its worth the extra cost in the long run, basically the answer hawkhench give me was what i was looking to know so thankyou.

No it's not, this is why you should buy for now, not the future. You're putting money into something that is uncertain, and usually the way it works is that by the time you actually need or benefit from the power difference the £200 extra graphics card gives (which in this case isn't really that much extra power), something else is out that is more powerful.

So the sensible way is to buy for your requirements now, and upgrade as the years go on, you will get much more for your money that way.