The Real Cost of Being a Video Gamer

ITT: A lot of nerds














New game release by Rovio you can run on your $4000 PC: ANGRY NERDS: THE BLOOMBERG EDITION
 
Comical. I guess they don't understand the "recyclers" that most of us are. I've been re-doing the same system for 2 years now.
 
Jimi_Shuffler said:
whoever wrote the article should be shot.

also for the 2nd xbox controller, I would just get a cheapo one (or whoever is gonna be 2nd player can bring their own if they don't like the cheap one lol)

a lot of things mentioned in that article I wouldn't splurge on. my $700~$800 rig does me good :)
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Of course, that assumes you have a friend, if you're billy-no-mates basement dweller you'll need one of those 'ladies' who 'spend time with you for money' for multiplayer

Say $50 an hour, 16 hours a day, 7 days a week (Thats how long us 'Gamerz' spend on our murder simulators right?) Thats $5600 a week. :rolleyes:
 
I need a computer, keyboard, mouse, and monitor whether I play games or not.

Quad-cores and RAM are inexpensive, and even a Q6600 and cheapo gaming card is fantastically better graphics quality than my PS3.

At most I'm spending $100-200 more on GPU than I would if I were not intending to ever play games and only edit video and do work. And I consider myself a hardcore gamer.
 
Shit, my main rig cost $3500, and that's with $400 speakers and 3 monitors.
Also included in that figure is a G700, G35, G15, and G13 keypad.
 
I've always felt a true hardcore gamer isn't the guy with the latest $4000 dollar benchmark masturbation tool, it's the guy still pushing his old dual core setup to the max to get by playing all the games he can and fragging the $4000 guy over and over.

The former is just a poser who spends more time tweaking and benchmarking than actually playing games.
 
daglesj said:
I've always felt a true hardcore gamer isn't the guy with the latest $4000 dollar benchmark masturbation tool, it's the guy still pushing his old dual core setup to the max to get by playing all the games he can and fragging the $4000 guy over and over.

The former is just a poser who spends more time tweaking and benchmarking than actually playing games.
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im with you
pushing the cheapest hardware you can to the fastest you can
 
one must consider that if investigation skills were lacking for this article, investigation skills for other articles will be just as lacking irrespective of subject matter.

I for one just bought an Intel i5 2500k processor, the one everyone is talking about online... it should arrive today, to replace my slow AMD Athlon XP 2000+ processor. Pop the old one out put the new one in, save money.

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There is no spoon.
 
Steve! I want my click back! That article was donkey shit dipped in dog vomit.
 
daglesj said:
I've always felt a true hardcore gamer isn't the guy with the latest $4000 dollar benchmark masturbation tool, it's the guy still pushing his old dual core setup to the max to get by playing all the games he can and fragging the $4000 guy over and over.

The former is just a poser who spends more time tweaking and benchmarking than actually playing games.
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I think that is the true hardcore gamer who spends as much as possible to get the power and framerates he wants. I think the true hardcore pc techie is defined by the example you gave. I feel that there is a difference between hardcore gamer and hardcore pc techie. We at [H] are hardcore pc tech's but most of us game so I think it's easy to confuse the two.
 
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XamediX said:
I think that is the true hardcore gamer who spends as much as possible to get the power and framerates he wants. I think the true hardcore pc techie is defined by the example you gave. I feel that there is a difference between hardcore gamer and hardcore pc techie. We at [H] are hardcore pc tech's but most of us game so I think it's easy to confuse the two.
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I agree with this. I've put around 5k in my system. It plays games. It also can run 6VMs at a time, which I do use occassionally. I don't -need- this system, but I certainly enjoy it. Besides, having a disposable income is pretty nice.

10 years ago I was the kid who was running the $400 system hoping to ruin the guy with the $4000 machine.
 
this article is clueless. i laughed at more motherboards and boosted ram. I don't think i put more than 1500 for my i5 2500k set up.
 
daglesj said:
I've always felt a true hardcore gamer isn't the guy with the latest $4000 dollar benchmark masturbation tool, it's the guy still pushing his old dual core setup to the max to get by playing all the games he can and fragging the $4000 guy over and over.

The former is just a poser who spends more time tweaking and benchmarking than actually playing games.
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Obviously quibbling over semantics here, but wouldn't that be more of a hardcore overclocker (hardware enthusiast?) than a gamer?

The hardcore gamer would make do with whatever is adequate, and spend all his money on new games.
 
"and Gordon is a "big admirer of Xbox Live.""

This explains EVERYTHING folks.
 
who spends more time tweaking and benchmarking than actually playing games.
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You know this part could describe a LOT of people who read this site...and people who run this site.
 
OK why not I will be the conspiracist and say this is a scare tactic... "just go and buy a console"
 
Alpert said:
OK why not I will be the conspiracist and say this is a scare tactic... "just go and buy a console"
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I agree with you. This is scare tactic by a clueless console fan who thinks PCs are too pricey, scary & hard to deal with for gaming.
 
lilbabycat said:
You know this part could describe a LOT of people who read this site...and people who run this site.
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Yeah you can tell by some of the responses.

Its like hardcore all weather bikers and the sunny Sunday afternoon bikers in their $1500 Power Ranger leathers and top of the range Hondas.:D
 
So you want to drive?

$430,000: Ferrari 599 GTO
$90: Tank of premium gas
$10,000: Insurance for 1 year

This is your only option folks.
 
kooda said:
Comical. I guess they don't understand the "recyclers" that most of us are. I've been re-doing the same system for 2 years now.
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Yep me too, I upgraded my nephew's system with entirely new innards for under $500 (probably close to $900, with all the other peripherals) plays everything he throws at it, that's all I look for in a system as well, they only get upgraded or replaced when the system can't play the new stuff.

The guy in the article obviously know's FA about custom PC's, my entire system setup cost $1K less than the one he picked, true PC gamers build their own rigs only time I didn't was my parents first PC back in '96.
 
I really thought this was satire. Honestly, I expected the end to be full of slides like: "house to play games in", "car to drive to store and buy snacks to eat while gaming" (supposedly one with an expensive after-marked HUD to allow you to game while driving), and "medical bills to pay for health problems associated with spending your every waking hour playing on a console, PC, or mobile gaming system".

But I got to the end and it said: "Bloomberg Rankings examined the cost of becoming video gamers for a family of four. Cost is based on the Microsoft Xbox 360 but that is not an endorsement of the product over competing game consoles." No troll face?

Every 'ridiculous' item suggested in this thread should be emailed to the posted suggestions email with some 'serious face' .jpg attached.
 
CrimsonKnight13 said:
I agree with you. This is scare tactic by a clueless console fan who thinks PCs are too pricey, scary & hard to deal with for gaming.
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The irony is that, with so many titles being console ports on the PC, it takes even less of a machine to be able to play most of the games that are coming out these days.
 
Had a similar discussion on an automotive board I frequent about a tech article that was totally wrong in every respect. Common thread..........Author is a woman.
 
At least my $4,600 PC was made in the USA (!!!) with imported materials whereas the xbox is made in God-only-knows-where.

My PC is super high quality and could probably survive a 1-2 foot drop.
 
Kirk: Scotty, I need MORE POWER, and I need it now or we're all dead!

Scotty: Aye, Capt'n. I'm adding more motherboards as fast as I can!
 
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