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Building a Vista Gaming Rig, and a theoretical amount as to how much it'll cost

Last post 03-14-2007 9:28 PM by scrapbrain. 16 replies.
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  • 03-04-2007 6:42 PM

    Building a Vista Gaming Rig, and a theoretical amount as to how much it'll cost

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    I'm reading through this Gamespy Article on Building a Gaming (read again, GAMING) PC for playing games on Windows Vista, plus a short commentary on when it is best to move into Vista. (on a side note, I'm jealous as to how they have access to have funds to buy their equipment. All I can do is wish that some good providers give me parts to build a Gaming test rig for me hehehe)

    http://pc.gamespy.com/articles/767/767965p1.html 

    update: nakakahimatay ang price... 138,000 (lahat kasi premium and maxed out na rin yung mga parts Indifferent)

     

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  • 03-05-2007 12:38 AM In reply to

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    Many will tell you how cheap 138,000 Php for a gaming system is, for the really bleeding edge systems it's around 250,000++ including kickass cooling.
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  • 03-05-2007 1:59 AM In reply to

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    not all of us are like you
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  • 03-05-2007 8:59 AM In reply to

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    those people have lots of money to burn. i mean...you spend that much for a system that'll be obsolete -- well, actually not, more like "no longer state-of-the-art" -- in three months.

    i find little reason to do that. but then that's just me. and not all of the people think like me Stick out tongue 

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  • 03-05-2007 9:40 AM In reply to

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    seed_mode:
    not all of us aren't like you

    It's getting really pathetic at this point, I'd like for you to know that.

    cruizer:

    those people have lots of money to burn. i mean...you spend that much for a system that'll be obsolete -- well, actually not, more like "no longer state-of-the-art" -- in three months.

    i find little reason to do that. but then that's just me. and not all of the people think like me Stick out tongue 

    I guess some people find what they love the most to be worth it, heh, if I had the money myself I would.

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  • 03-05-2007 10:27 AM In reply to

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    seed_mode:

    nakakahimatay ang price... 138,000 (lahat kasi premium and maxed out na rin yung mga parts Indifferent)

    hmmm...parang bumili ka na rin ng MAC.

  • 03-05-2007 10:35 AM In reply to

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    but you can't do much gaming on the Mac, can you? Wink
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  • 03-05-2007 5:25 PM In reply to

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    You don't really need to spend Php100K for a Vista gaming rig.

     I myself built one. I think it's very acceptable. I even haven't unleashed my new system's potential yet. All for a total of Php55,500.

    If I get the 8800 GTX, another 1GB of RAM, and cooling system to reach the 3Ghz-4Ghz OC setup of my rig, it would be a total of Php80K give or take. Not Php100K. Fair price for ultimate vista gaming desktop as compared of buying just a laptop of the same price.

     If you want to check out my PC system, take a look at my blog. It has photos of it too. (Sorry for plugging in a small advert hehe)

    Andrei - Game Developer at Matahari Studios (Philippines)

  • 03-05-2007 8:04 PM In reply to

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    Yes Ganun din inabot ng gaming rig ko from last year, included na rin OS (though it's XP)
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  • 03-05-2007 8:05 PM In reply to

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    cruizer:
    but you can't do much gaming on the Mac, can you? Wink

    ang alam kong mac na aabot sa price range nun would be a Dual or was that Quad Core na G5 for animation rendering.

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  • 03-07-2007 12:15 AM In reply to

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    well with a good bargain you can get those far cheaper... bet the mark up price can go down by 30% if you know where to tap and get it from
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  • 03-07-2007 1:57 AM In reply to

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    but can it still play the nice games (except for Sim City and Doom)? (without bootcamp) hehehe
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  • 03-08-2007 6:26 AM In reply to

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    With Mac and a virtual PC proggy, you can play any games you like. And to think that it's mac, expect high fps in games.

  • 03-08-2007 12:25 PM In reply to

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    ^but what PC emulator would that be?
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  • 03-09-2007 12:07 PM In reply to

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    bootcamp is a good candidate to serve mac users with win xp benefits...

     

  • 03-10-2007 12:37 AM In reply to

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    it may be, but customization wise, it's very limited, and condition for this discussion is that boot camp's not an option for gaming
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  • 03-14-2007 9:28 PM In reply to

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    Apparently, new DX10 cards still partially support Vista OS's DX10 as of now. And their price is at most 32k or so.

    What happens if MS DX10 will be recompiled to support backward compatibility? Any opinions?
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