The Future of PC Gaming Requirements

[dave_the_nerd]

Odd, I always felt that the advantage of PC gaming was being able to throw a ton of money at it to get top notch performance, not stretch a penny.

More and more console games are console or user locked, which means pretty much always spending $40-$60 on a new game. vs. buying 2-3 year old AAA games on Steam for $5 a pop during sale weeks, etc. That can swing TCO waaaay in favor of PCs for a "casual" with a modest gaming rig. Additionally, mods generally work better on PCs, meaning more replayability for PC games. Excellent indie games like Rimworld and Xenonauts aren't (afaik) available on console at all. (Although Minecraft and Kerbal Space Program eventually got ported.)

Finally, the multipurpose nature of PCs is a selling point, if you're space constrained and need to keep the number of devices to a minimum. I can use a midrange gaming box to do my taxes. Try that with a PS4.

 

[slag]

New benches:

A 2500K even overclocked is old rubbish in near 2017.

Yawn. No, its not. This graph doesn't even show overclocked cpus but a 4.5 ghz 2500k is plenty of horsepower to play most any games today.

 

[biostud]

You can always turn the graphics settings down a notch and still have better graphics than consoles.

I think my CPU will last a long time before being obsolete.

 

[biostud]

Yawn. No, its not. This graph doesn't even show overclocked cpus but a 4.5 ghz 2500k is plenty of horsepower to play most any games today.

Exactly it will deliver 30% better results due to o/c which will bring it to 42/60.

But obviously no one will run a 2500K with GTX1080 SLI.

 

[Denithor]

And you can build a complete i5 system with 8gb rx480, 8gb ram, OS, case, ps, and 1tb spinner or 256gb ssd for around $700.-

At this rate I would gladly pay around $700.- for 8 cores/16 threads, 32 gigabytes of RAM, 16GB high end GPU in your Utopian future world. PM me when we get there just to remind me.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Dell-Precis...2670-32GB-RAM-256GB-SSD-Win7Pro-/381853556821

How about just buy one for $565 instead? Oh, wait, this is an e5 not an i5, my bad...
LOL

EDIT: Oh, and you'll have to install your own RX480. But since those are in the $170 range, still doable. And this has 32GB of RAM instead of the requested 8GB. So... 😀