Whats the point?

mattyj1085

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Whats the point in having 8gb RAM, a quad core processor and graphics card that runs at 2ghz core?

I know ram is needed for photo editing when working with giant pictures and encoding / decoding films but I cannot see there being many that do this?

So are your £1500 - £2000 systems for gaming only?
 
My system in my sig probably cost about £1000 once everything is added together. High-spec system's are as expensive as you'd think.

But for the most part, yes, the really expensive ones are for gaming.
 
Quite a lot do encoding of films so they can watch their DVDs without having to stand up to change disks :-)

Most of the big builds are for gaming or professionals. Most of the 400-800 are for people who are interested in gaming but are on a budget; in the end, most PCs on this forum probably end up doing a few hours a week blasting zombies.
 
Flight sims (FSX especially), encoding, gaming, surfing, music, etc. All at once, and no problems.
€1500 - Check the specs. :D

OS - Vista 64 Home Premium
MOBO - ASUS P5Q-SE
CPU - Intel Q9650 4 x 3.00 GHz
RAM - OCZ DDR2 PC2-8500 1066MHz Gold Edition, 8GB
HDD0 - VelociRaptor WD3000HLFS 300GB 10,000rpm
HDD1 - 'Cuda ST3250410AS 7200.10 250GB 7200rpm
Graphic Card - Gigabyte GeForce GTX280 1GB DDR3
PSU - Be Quiet! Dark Power Pro 750 Watt
Joystick - Saitek X52 Flight Controller
 
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Thing is as well different people have different budgets, if you think about it in terms of salary, £800 could be one persons monthly wage, whilst £2500 could be anothers, I dont think spending a months wage on a PC every 12-18 months is a bad thing, if you can afford it, and its your main interest. So whilst they seem like quite big budget differences, to each person they may be the same budget (if that makes sense, lol)
 
muqtada123 said:
i have bigger RAM than the system requirement that slow my PC. any help
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having more ram than is required isn't a problem my friend, it's a good thing.

the requirement is how much you need, minimum, if you have more it's great! it shouldn't slow your pc down at all. ;)
 
It might be slowing down your PC due to loose timings etc. But it shouldn't "slow" down lol.

Anyway, my system and monitor was Sub£1000, I mainly use it for gaming too. Nothing wrong with a fast system I tell you!
 
my dads got a quad at 3.3 i think 8 gig of ram and a 4870x2 cost him 1.5grand with the 24 inch monitor and his is purley for gaming
 
I paid £969.78 for my gaming system, it can also handle office software too.
 
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I have a quad core for two reasons (looks likely to be i7 soon :( )

Firstly, computer aided design loves it. Even small things like being able to smoothly rotate a gearbox instead of it moving 20 degrees every few seconds makes such a difference. Shortly to start finite element analysis, at which point waiting 20 minutes for a calculation beats the hell out of waiting 3 days. So that's work.

Secondly, it can handle debian stable with windows XP, ubuntu and an experimental distribution all in virtualbox simultaneously. XP is used for foobar, m$ office, media player and other things linux struggles a bit with. Ubuntu is my day to day operating system, so dies often (technically the repeated reinstalls are my fault), and having it in virtualbox means it going down just doesn't matter. Finally the experimental one varies, it'll be vista in a bit I think but it's presently Debian. So that's play.

I'm yet to play a game more recent than morrowind, so I don't think the 8gb ram and overclocked quad are needed for gaming. It's on a softmodded 8800gt, processor/ram/board currently nonexistant :'(
 
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