Help convince me to spend £1000+

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For awhile I have been having a ongoing war to upgrade my pc, even posting a spec me thread of my own awhile ago here even brought windows 7 and Street Fighter 4 for my new build and still yet to buy anything.

So what the drama about I hear you say, well few years ago I brought a gaming laptop:
2GHz Intel Core 2 Duo T7200;
1GB DDR2 RAM; 120GB hard drive;
256MB nVidia GeForce Go 7600 graphics card;

Currently it handles all the Design and Development applications I use (SQL Server, Eclipse, Flash, 3d Max, Maya, Photoshop, Illustrator etc) and it is decent when it comes to multitasking.

Seems to handle most of the games that I play maybe not all at full spec(Counter Strike Source, Warcraft 3, Half Life 2, Fear, Prey, Call to Juarez, Oblivion etc)

However I would love to play some of these next generation games at high spec, but every time am about to purchase I think why should I spend so much just to play the likes of Crysis or run Oblivion at full spec...........................

HELP convince me........................................
 
I played through Crysis and Oblivion on those specs (except single core CPU with 1 GHz). ;)
Didn't even have to turn everything down to low.

In all honesty it's up to you. We're not here to convince you to spend money, if you need a new rig then by all means go for it.

I'd personally never spend more than 300€ on a laptop though, and a 600€ rig will handle Crysis and Oblivion just fine. (Like mine)
 
when my psu killed itself randomly and i had to wait for a new one to be sent out, i was stuck on my laptop for a month and frankly going back to a decent pc was like a breath of fresh air into a lot of games, you wont regret getting a decent one :)
 
I'd recommend splitting the cash down the centre. Spending £500/600 now and use £400 in in the future for upgrades. Adjust that as you feel necessary. Obviously if you need a screen, keyboard and mouse it'll be more now, and less later for upgrades. But whatever you buy now whether for £1000 or £500, just remember in 3 years time it'll be dated and if you have some money saved it'll allow for an upgrade at that time.
 
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If you feel you are going to make good use of a new system then Buy it, Simples.

I definitely feel I make use of the system as it will improve on gaming, but like I said £1000+(need everything, monitor, keyboard, speakers etc) does seem expensive to play games, was hoping someine would throw something in the equation apart from the games improvement factor....................
 
Don't be one of those jokers obessed with playing Crysis and getting more FPS, my Q6600 + gtx 260 + 2gig DDR2 1066mhz dominator ram destroyed crysis at 1680x1050 then after 15 hours of gameplay i never touch it.

Why spend a grand so for those 15 hours you can get an erection on having 20 more FPS than someone who has £500 in there back pocket, then when you go to a casual game like one of the COD's your still going to be capping your FPS @ 125 or 250 which lots of PC's can handle, no need for a grand............!!!!!!
 
I believe you are mistaken, i had that GTX 260 PC for like 18 months and it ate everything up and continued to do so untill i sold it. I know guys that run 9600GT's still and can still max games out at there chosen res, unless your on 30" i don't think £500 every 6 months is even possible
 
well im about to spend a grand on an i7 build with a hd 5870 and 6gb of ram and tihs should last me a fair few years seeing as I still manage on a 1.7GHz pentium 4 laptop with 768mb of ram. And thats lasted me since 2002! For some reason it has a max res of 1920x1200?? Hurts my eyes using that res on such a small screen. Well i managed to complete company of heroes and a few other slightly new games on it so an i7 build should last me ages. Go for a new pc if you really want to (I want to!) and I'm sure it will last you many years.
 
well im about to spend a grand on an i7 build with a hd 5870 and 6gb of ram and tihs should last me a fair few years seeing as I still manage on a 1.7GHz pentium 4 laptop with 768mb of ram. And thats lasted me since 2002! For some reason it has a max res of 1920x1200?? Hurts my eyes using that res on such a small screen. Well i managed to complete company of heroes and a few other slightly new games on it so an i7 build should last me ages. Go for a new pc if you really want to (I want to!) and I'm sure it will last you many years.

Ye i know, somewhat annoys me when someone says you have to spend cash upgrading often, even if you get a mid ranged PC they last a long time..
 
They do if you spec it right in the first place, that includes business workstations, gaming and home machines.

Well thats why it is worth spending time on the forums and asking loads of questions about it then putting the final build up and see what people think. Its what im doing at the moment :D
 
Well this is what I was thinking of if I was to buy as shown below:

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Was hoping to keep it more closer to the £1000 mark but ended up being £1500 :eek:
 
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