Blue Wizard
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I'm going to sell my video game collection (not any of my NES stuff though) and build a motorcycle. I'd probably make enough off the SNES stuff I have alone to buy an engine.
Selling my 360 and building a pc
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Timewasmoney1
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Do you have one of them gold plated nes championship from way back worth 30k$?
Blue Wizard
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I wish, I do own some rare SNES games though. I've got a CIBcopy of Ogre Battle with the official strategy guide, got the game for $5 and the guide for $10 back in the day, that's about $300 on ebay now. My SNES RPG collection alone is worth around $2k, I'm just glad I paid garage sale prices for them lol.
Rancho Cucamonga
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I have a friend that bought his home with his Star Wars figures collection. Certain shit is worth some good money to the right people.
Rancho Cucamonga
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The prophet stared at his crystal balli really dont want to upgrade the gpu anymore this is already way more than i wanted to spend. I originally planned on a phenom 965 be with at gtx 650ti
I understand budgets. My first few pc builds were all under 600.
I think I will put up mine for sale this week, all this pc build talk has got me anxious. I'll sell you my setup minus the hard drives.
Timewasmoney1
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Your anxious? Im even more. Im wanting to experience piecing mine together chap
Whats in your rig?
mdjmatthew
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Rancho Cucamonga
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Your anxious? Im even more. Im wanting to experience piecing mine together chap
Whats in your rig?
LOL Yes, building ur own is half the unique high. Something people who have them built for them will never experience.
I listed my specs earlier with the pictures.
I'm due for a new build by end of year so I will try and figure out the "sweetspot" between good deals and obsolete tech. Not always easy to do and most of the time it's just guessing. Good thing for all of us is pc shit is always getting better and cheaper. I guess not so good when you are trying to sell it but I always figure to lose a minimum of 50% of what I put into one after 1-3 years.
ShazMo09
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A good gaming pc will cost you peanuts. Either build it or find something on ebay. The reality is that all the present hardware is completely unnecessary, hardware from 3 or 4 years ago will happily play every game on the market and can be picked up second hand dirt cheap.
And while a pc is suited for different kind of games to consoles, such as FPS or RTS or MMORPG you won't regret it. After playing a game on your pc, going over to a console to play the same thing is near impossible. Kinda like going out of your way to play your pc games on the lowest graphics settings available despite being able to play it at max. Like chosing to have a one night stand with a spotty fat chick instead a lingerie modelWith pc games you also vastly reduce the number of whiney 12 year old shits you encounter online
I totally agree with you dude. I put about 280 hours into BF3 on 360 and in October I decided to build a Gaming Rig. BEST DECISION EVER. My lil bro had a monitor, keyboard and all that shit but I put just over $500AU on the rig and I couldnt be happier. If I had more money I would of got some better shit but like you said...Components from 3 or so years ago handle shit fine! Got BF3 on PC and it blows 360 out the water...Along with every other game. A console looks like a shitty piece of plastic to me these days...
tip top toker
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Yup. It just becomes painful to go back to. The only thing time i turn to a console, i turn to it old school. I don't know whether it is just a change in general demand, or a push for online capability and multiplayer, but i just can't find games that i can consider comparable to the likes of mario kart 64 or jack and daxter on the ps2.
Currently playing blood dragon
watched a youtube review of a console version, 360 i think, and it just doesn't compare in one meaningful way. So friggin ugly!
mewk69
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Not the worst combo. While i havn't got bf4 yet naturally, my gpu of choice at present is just an hd 4850. Cost about £30 and i've yet to find a game it can't play jut great be it planetside 2 or farcry 3 etc. But then again, i am often a cheapskate
tip top, you had me at £30!
I've been thinkin for a while about getting a decent PC together, I've been doing a fair bit of work on this one lately, and it grinds like hell. I was thinking anything worthwhile would be well outa my pockets range. Plus whenever I've gone on board and asked for advice, they always point you at state of the art shit, and then everyone slags that bit of kit off to show you something even more expensive. Maybe I shoulda been askin stoners all along. Any chance you could gimme an idea of how much ££ I'd need to put together a rig that'd play something liek Farcry 3?
tip top toker
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Price often depends on what size you want and of what quality. You can get it down real cheap if you want.
But as an example, i recently found a shuttle on ebay for £100 which came with cpu, ram, hdd, dvd, gpu. swapped the cpu, gpu, and ram out and used some stuff from another system, but even then, let's simply say that the shuttle barebone cost £100. Add to that £30 for graphics, £30 for 4gb of ram, £50 for an old q6600.
So that's £210 for a computer that happily plays far cry 3 and every other game i've tried. It's now my main computer. Go on a tech forum and you'll be recommended a graphics card alone that costs between £150 and £300, and noone will recommend you anything unless it's at least i5 with 8gb of ddr3.
You could do it even cheaper if you wanted. I've another shuttle, basically the same spec but with a really low power cpu. E2150 or something. Tempted to install farcry on that and see just what it can do before i chuck it on ebay.
mewk69
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Yeh that sounds impressively tasty. I think asking on tech forums has probably always been the problem. That and I've got a couple real techie mates who only buy the best too. But you've given me hope... I seriously had no idea you could put together a machine for a couple hundred that'd play new releases. Now all I gotta do is find the bucks. Thanks for the info tho tip top, I'll be savin that and trying put a few quid away at the same time.
tip top toker
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Yup, i used to be one of those upgrade junkies as well, but it was more just a hobby than a requirement.
Right now, my hardware looks like this in terms of lifespan
Shuttle SD37P2 - Released 2007
Ati 4850 - Released 2008
Q6600 - Released 2007
You get the idea. Aside from harddrives and ram which is a newly bought set, my components are between 5 and 6 years old. I was playing Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon quite happily just the other day. It won't run the newest games at max settings when at 1080p, but i can still set it high enough that it looks just peachy. And should i move over to my tower, i can then overclock the crap out of everything should i want. I'd like a new coputer, but i'm still to find a justification for it.
Right now, my hardware looks like this in terms of lifespan
Shuttle SD37P2 - Released 2007
Ati 4850 - Released 2008
Q6600 - Released 2007
You get the idea. Aside from harddrives and ram which is a newly bought set, my components are between 5 and 6 years old. I was playing Far Cry 3 and Blood Dragon quite happily just the other day. It won't run the newest games at max settings when at 1080p, but i can still set it high enough that it looks just peachy. And should i move over to my tower, i can then overclock the crap out of everything should i want. I'd like a new coputer, but i'm still to find a justification for it.
OGEvilgenius
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A good gaming pc will cost you peanuts. Either build it or find something on ebay. The reality is that all the present hardware is completely unnecessary, hardware from 3 or 4 years ago will happily play every game on the market and can be picked up second hand dirt cheap.
And while a pc is suited for different kind of games to consoles, such as FPS or RTS or MMORPG you won't regret it. After playing a game on your pc, going over to a console to play the same thing is near impossible. Kinda like going out of your way to play your pc games on the lowest graphics settings available despite being able to play it at max. Like chosing to have a one night stand with a spotty fat chick instead a lingerie model
Yep, I have a 5 year old intel which is still one of the fastest processors for games (literally, it sits near the top and it was cheap back then relatively, core i5) and an ATI 4850 and I haven't had any issues with any games at all. You can do better than an ATI 4850 for dirt cheap today. I can play PS2. Haven't tried MW4. Not a fan of them.
It's why the new steambox is kind of exciting and also why it's coming out.
OGEvilgenius
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Not the worst combo. While i havn't got bf4 yet naturally, my gpu of choice at present is just an hd 4850. Cost about £30 and i've yet to find a game it can't play jut great be it planetside 2 or farcry 3 etc. But then again, i am often a cheapskate
lol just read this, funny we have the same... i'm thinking we probably bought around the same time too. You got the i5? I think I paid 500 total for processor/video card back then. It's done me really well, better than any other computer I ever built.
moomoomomo
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New Egg is awesome and they will have the best deals you can find on the net compared to buying used from some shady person on Fleabay!!
tip top toker
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Building a PC is about as2 easy a job as there is if you take the time to read up on how to put one together. Picture it as a jigsaw with say 10 pieces..
With regard to pc-bundles found on online shops, search out what the prices would be for the parts if simply bought individually, and then compare that to the pre-built price and decide whether it is worth the extra.
And as to buying off ebay, yes there are shady sellers, but it is generally very easy to work out who is selling something legitimate, and who is not. I've only ever had one issue with ebay and that turned out to be my own fault for not googling the product. Luckily in the UK we have certain laws that make it very difficult to screw the buyer over, in that by law after 7 days of receipt, if you want to post it straight back to them, there is nothing they can do about it. It always amuses me when sellers post things like 'no refunds/returns accepted' as if it somehow means anything (kinda like the people who use the 'everything i say on this forum is makebelieve' sigantures on these forums. These days it is the sellers who get screwed over not the buyers, with buyers stating that the item never arrived and demanding a refund or re-ship.
