Your computer

[Aloneness]

Yes well technically you need only spend $100 to make a gaming computer so long as your definition of games are anything DOS-Era, and Mine Sweeper....

[Nrein]

Can't tell if sarcastic, or... =I

Just to play "Modern games" at decent quality, you needn't spend more than $80 on Graphics alone, and then everything else is as simple as can be. Again, good planing and understanding of how everything comes together.

[Duke]

I said tried, and failed xD I built that when I was 14. My bro was SUPPOSED to help me -__-

[Timmy Fox]

Yes well technically you need only spend $100 to make a gaming computer so long as your definition of games are anything DOS-Era, and Mine Sweeper....

Simple, it doesn't need to run BF3 or Crysis maxed. Just it runs it on moderate graphics it's enough to be called a gaming computer. My laptop from school that uses shitty integrated graphics as opposed to a dedicated GPU can run some less demanding games like minecraft, portal and even call of duty.
It uses an i3 CPU and has 4 GB of RAM.

The term "gaming computer" has gotten pretty vague and many people associate it with a high-end computer. My definition is rather a computer that's decent enough to play some games on. Look at the price of consoles for example.

A high-end computer to me would be something more like mine with an i7 CPU and 16GB of RAM which is made for media and rendering. And before you say it's overkill, I've actually made good use of it. Had 90% RAM usage few times!

[Duke]

Mhm. If we are talking abot graphics, My computer runs Skyrim on high, Leage of legends on high, and the sims on high.

[Nrein]

Yeah, that would be my exact definition, Timmy.
Best still-running example I can think of is my Dad, who *still* uses his GT 8600's, and 4GB Ram, and yet plays most modern games at medium/high. And that's going back at least 7 series of cards.

[Aloneness]

Spoiler for Hidden:

Can't tell if sarcastic, or... =I

Just to play "Modern games" at decent quality, you needn't spend more than $80 on Graphics alone, and then everything else is as simple as can be. Again, good planing and understanding of how everything comes together.

It was sarcasm, but my definition of a gaming computer is something that can run a recently released game on Medium-High settings, and by a recently released game I don't mean something like "Bejeweled the 2650th edition" I'm talking about stuff like BF3, Skyrim, etc.

Spoiler for Hidden:

Yes well technically you need only spend $100 to make a gaming computer so long as your definition of games are anything DOS-Era, and Mine Sweeper....

Simple, it doesn't need to run BF3 or Crysis maxed. Just it runs it on moderate graphics it's enough to be called a gaming computer. My laptop from school that uses shitty integrated graphics as opposed to a dedicated GPU can run some less demanding games like minecraft, portal and even call of duty.
It uses an i3 CPU and has 4 GB of RAM.

The term "gaming computer" has gotten pretty vague and many people associate it with a high-end computer. My definition is rather a computer that's decent enough to play some games on. Look at the price of consoles for example.

A high-end computer to me would be something more like mine with an i7 CPU and 16GB of RAM which is made for media and rendering. And before you say it's overkill, I've actually made good use of it. Had 90% RAM usage few times!

I use 8GB's of 2133Mhz ram and have an i7 2600K 3.7GHz or something like that and it works fine on gaming about the only time you really need 16GB is like when you said rendering, because programs for stuff like that eat ram for breakfast.

[Timmy Fox]

It was sarcasm, but my definition of a gaming computer is something that can run a recently released game on Medium-High settings, and by a recently released game I don't mean something like "Bejeweled the 2650th edition" I'm talking about stuff like BF3, Skyrim, etc.

My old 5770 GPU I have lying on the shelf, I paid I think $150 for it new price will run Crysis 2 and BF3 on medium settings just fine. And for a budget gaming PC, the GPU is often most expensive component. Additionally the AMD Trinity CPU's will run stuff like BF3 on decent fps and being a GPU+CPU in one kit.

[Nrein]

And not to mention now a days you can get things like a 9800 GT for less that $70, and that'll run even the most graphical modern games on medium if you know what you're doing.


To be fair, anyone who says you need a computer that costs more than $1,000 to have an amazing machine has no clue, considering I've had computers of $900 or less that manage to run even better than computers running at $1500+.

[Duke]

And not to mention now a days you can get things like a 9800 GT for less that $70, and that'll run even the most graphical modern games on medium if you know what you're doing.


To be fair, anyone who says you need a computer that costs more than $1,000 to have an amazing machine has no clue, considering I've had computers of $900 or less that manage to run even better than computers running at $1500+.

Yeah its those people who are like "It cost more so it must be better!" Ugh... Nuh.

[Nrein]

Mhm. That's why I'm glad my focuses are on Computer Hardware and Economics. When you get a real grasp of how it all works together, you can essentially build a super great machine for half the cost of those "Super Mega Awesome Computers" out there, like Alien Ware.

But then I could slap a picture of an Otter on my computers and make people pay out the butt for them >=3 *Sarcasm*

[White Wolf Guardian]

I think my computer could handle a couple Minesweeper games

And a 15gb ram use from Minecraft!

[Aloneness]

Yeah with the build you got I'd be scared of a minesweeper game that could crash your computer ... so I take it you had no problems setting it up?

But holy crap combo, your Minecraft is either broken or running a ungodly amount of mods, I mean even using 256x256 Photo Realism Texture mod my MC only uses about 3-4GBs of RAM

[White Wolf Guardian]

512*512 RedCraft with Optifine improvements running on a Ramdisk. I put java on it as well, seemed to help then pointedoptifine to use only the files on the ramdisk.

[Aloneness]

...512x512 texture mod ... thats over kill ... I'm going to count that as an ungodly amount of modding XDDD I'd have to get a bigger monitor to use that texture pack or it'd probably end up looking way to sharp and ... bleh-ish ... by RAM disk I guessing you mean a SSD drive?