Is everyone's home PC just an internet and gaming machine?

Berry Merjinik

Berry Merjinik

Berry Merjinik

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I've been looking at all the signatures people have stating which PC they own,
So much money spent and for what? what do you do with these expensive machines?

I only game, I say game but very rarely as I don't have much time with the kids these days.
When I get free time I usually just spend an hour on youtube or those other sites.
I suppose what i'm asking is when you've spent so much on a system do you feel you are getting the full value from it? or is it just the knowledge of having the latest and greatest that does it for you?
 
Internet, gaming, streaming, working, in that order. Probably should do more of the last one.

My main PC is quite old. Components from 2012, and it runs Linux. I think I've definitely got the full value from it. I don't have the latest and greatest by any stretch of the imagination.
 
I don't game as much as I should on my PC, even more so now we have a 5 week old and the warmer weather is on the way, but when I do game on it I like my gaming to be as best as I can have it
 
I reckon I do get the value. I do hybrid working from home and honestly having a big ultrawide monitor and a second 27in 1440p display is a godsend for work. It is also great for gaming and mooching about as well. The time I get to game is pretty limited with long work hours and parenting, but the fact that I do get an hour or two in the evening or sometimes longer at weekends means that I want that experience to be bloody good. And it is.

Also, I enjoy the whole hobby of it as well and I am cool with dumping cash into it. I strike a balance of doing big upgrades of big ticket parts more rarely to get good value, rather than perennially upgrading with each new gen, so it doesn't take the Mick on budget.

I also have a little home server so reencoding my Blu-ray's on a 5800x is done quickly, and time is important when you don't get much of it!
 
Berry Merjinik said:
I've been looking at all the signatures people have stating which PC they own,
So much money spent and for what? what do you do with these expensive machines?

I only game, I say game but very rarely as I don't have much time with the kids these days.
When I get free time I usually just spend an hour on youtube or those other sites.
I suppose what i'm asking is when you've spent so much on a system do you feel you are getting the full value from it? or is it just the knowledge of having the latest and greatest that does it for you?
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I don't need a 3080 Ti for my photo editing, but got one anyway because managed to get a Founders at RRP not long ago and my 2070 Super was showing its RTX and VRAM limitations
in games like Cyberpunk, although have to admit I have not gamed much since buying the card other than testing it's stable and frame rates etc. The bulk of my PC usage is web consumption and media creation (photo/video editing) - And for that the big specs upgrade I did in the new year come into play on a massive level (12700KF, 64GB RAM, NVMe SSD + 8TB SATA SSD. Most recently got a new QD-OLED monitor having been dreaming of OLED on a PC monitor for the last decade which was the final step in my 6 year upgrade cycle. I've seen Lightroom use just over 27GB RAM for example a few times, chuck in Photoshop in the BG and 64GB made more sense than ever.

Do I get the most out of all that in terms of use vs cost though? For gaming? No I don't think so. But for productivity absolutely. What used to take me 5-6 weeks to produce as I span it across multiple days, now takes 1-3 weeks as I can work faster and as such produce more.

Devrij said:
I also have a little home server so reencoding my Blu-ray's on a 5800x is done quickly, and time is important when you don't get much of it!
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Also this! A new build or upgrade means tinkering and faffing when things go wrong. Many of us are technically minded and enjoy that aspect of technology and hardware in general. The same goes for cars really. The inside of a case, the way it looks, the cable management. These are things of pure joy when all done and dusted properly.
 
What a strange topic to start on a computer forum you just joined today.

My PC is almost entirely for gaming, though is occasionally used for just "internet", though I have a lovely new Apple MacBook Air for general purpose internet/office etc. With regards to cost, it's hardly a high-end machine and I'd argue has offered great value and should for a couple more years yet, especially with the games I play (which aren't immensely taxing).
 
I have two pcs, one with a 3700 rtx and 8700k used mainly for work and spot of gaming. The second setup in my lounge with a 3800 rtx and amd 5800x3d purely for gaming.
 
No. I make music on mine too using lots of vsts (which means it needs to be kept pretty fast cpu/ram/disk wise anyway).

It means for games, the only real cost is the gpu as I need a decent machine component wise anyway.

Bold topic to post on an enthusiast's PC forum! I imagine for most, it's an interest in itself (making, customising, overclocking, general interest in hardware etc)
 
Mine are very expensive methods of collecting dust. Not because they are on, but because I rarely use them. I just have fun reading about and researching hardware, building them…then rarely using them. Oops.
 
Berry Merjinik said:
I'm not sure, maybe certain people might take umbrage with the question?
Watches to tell the time? isn't it more which components in that watch improves there time keeping?
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A £10 casio is more accurate than a £50,000 Rolex.

The Rolex has a mechanical movement and they cant match a cheap quartz for accuracy.
 
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