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

Work, games, a bit of coding in my own time.

My 5820k with 32gb and a 2070 still does me fine and there ain't no way I'm paying today's silly prices for an upgrade.

Although I have considered a 12400k to save on the electric and run win11....but this'll do fine for years in reality.
 
Junglist said:
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
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This is my view too. I run a 3080fe, so I know it's not the best. But it's the best I can have it.
 
Sometimes don't use mine for a few weeks at a time depending on what's going on with life. But I use it for gaming, some light CAD work, some code compiling. I don't feel like it's wasted while not being used or anything, I enjoy it when I do use it, just like a weekend car you'd use to enjoy.
 
dave28 said:
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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But I can confirm my Rolex keeps better time than my £500 Casio Frogman over a week of monitoring.
 
dave28 said:
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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Fake news, Rolex is /mostly/n overhyped anyway - It's more a brand image than the pinnacle of horology. When was the last time they innovated something in term of watch movements?

Zenith's Defy Lab from a few years ago claimed to be the most accurate mechanical movement in the world with around 0.3s a day accuracy for almost all of its power reserve range and the movement never needs lubrication - It beats almost everything out there pretty much. It beats any Casio quartz for example. Casio state the F-91W is accurate to 1s a day or 30s a month. The Defy Lab beats that. Seiko's spring drive movements can't even compete.
 
My main PC is a 10 year old iMac, so no, it's not a gaming machine.

lnoton said:
But I can confirm my Rolex keeps better time than my £500 Casio Frogman over a week of monitoring.
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You know he means a Quartz, since he said £10, not £500 Casio. There are no £10 Casio Mechanical Diver watches. I mean he specifically said Quartz is more accurate than Mechanical...
 
Raymond Lin said:
My main PC is a 10 year old iMac, so no, it's not a gaming machine.



You know he means a Quartz, since he said £10, not £500 Casio. There are no £10 Casio Mechanical Diver watches. I mean he specifically said Quartz is more accurate than Mechanical...
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Yeah I know! And my £500 Quartz frogman, when it isn't getting radio time updates, is less accurate than my Rolex...

Not all quartz are apparently equal.
 
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?
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Enjoy them.

Berry Merjinik said:
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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Its an enthusiast forum for pc component enthusiasts, people enjoy getting the best they can afford. Its a hobby and people enjoy building their own machines. Theres a guy out the back of the buildings here with an enormous 4x4 parked with wheels as big as cartwheels I assume he goes off roading with it. Does he need it? Nope I don't suppose so for one minute. Its his hobby his pastime and who am I judge him for it.
 
Raymond Lin said:
My main PC is a 10 year old iMac, so no, it's not a gaming machine.



You know he means a Quartz, since he said £10, not £500 Casio. There are no £10 Casio Mechanical Diver watches. I mean he specifically said Quartz is more accurate than Mechanical...
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Diver watches. I remember the rage they were in the early 90s in school. You'd see the rich kids with them and the fact they'd be bragging how deep they could dive in the pool with them.
 
Berry Merjinik said:
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've earned more than my PC cost over the last year by having it mine when I've not been using it for other stuff so I do feel like I've extracted the full value and then some.
 
Yes, pretty much.
A bit of what you mention at the end too, knowing that I have a good PC, that my son has a good PC etc carries some sort of weight a bit like stamp collecting.
I don't consider it great value for money any more (compared to say 10 years ago when I had no kids and gamed a lot more, when mobile phones were worse for internet browsing, when consoles had less functionality for streaming etc) but I guess I don't have many vices and have a reasonable amount of disposable income.

Honestly, these days I reckon with a mobile phone, games console and mediocre PC (or laptop plus peripherals) I reckon I'd be fine.
 
I won my PC and my wife's PC for maybe about £250 total, so we've definitely had value out of them already. I wouldn't have spent the amount they're worth to build the same PC's given the choice though, would have spent less.
 
Feel like my desktop PC is more of a dust collector at the moment. Just always feel like I should have a reasonably OK PC.

I've put together a cheap as chips Alienware Alpha under my TV to replace my NUC for some retro/light gaming, and use a really low power 5 year old laptop for work... Powerpoint is the most taxing app I use. :D
 
Since retirement, yes. I have a first gen Ryzen 1700 and an AMD 470 graphics card in a self build chassis. I have been building my own computers since 1993. I see no current need to upgrade for the Civ type gaming or certainly browsing and streaming stuff. I aso code a bit for my own amusement as I never worked in IT.
 
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