Video Games or Hardware?

What's more important to you?

  • Playing Video Games

    Votes: 31 30.4%

  • Messing with Hardware

    Votes: 17 16.7%

  • They are both equally important

    Votes: 54 52.9%
  • Total voters
    102
J

J W

[H]ard|Gawd
Joined
Mar 8, 2008
Messages
1,505
I saw a thread like this over at headfi.

Well, what's more important to you: Messing with hardware or playing the video games.
 
I don't care about hardware as long as I can run the game with decent framerates. The only reason why I upgraded my X800 XL was because some games I play require SM 3.0. Nothing I play now requires dual-core CPU, so I am not upgrading that yet.
 
My vote is both.

Like having the current best hardware, yet playing video games is one of my hobbies.
 
PC hardware is the coolest LEGO i've ever seen but too expensive to just "take apart and play" with unless the they result in some good gaming.
 
They both are equally important to me.

usually, my messing with hardware such as changing coolers, improve cooling performances to get good overclocking is to ultimately achieve better performance. And the only application I run that can utilize that much performance are video games :p

In fact, if not for video games, I'd probably have less experience with hardware. my first windows computer was incapable of running my first PC game I bought, which was Serious Sam. So I ended up asking around for help, was told to get extra ram and a graphic card, so I got them myself and learn alot along the way
 
I said both. I love messing around with hardware and putting stuff together to make it work. Then I love seeing the result of it all working together and playing games maxed! but then again... I always love putting stuff together. :D

And i totally agree with the lego thing haha
 
I will have to say the games.

Messing with hardware is fun and all, but you can only do so much with it before your funds run dry or there's little left to play with, tweak, overclock, etc. Once you've got that system up, what are you gonna do, start another one? Nah, it's time to enjoy it, so you break out the games. That's what I built the damn thing for anyway! If there were no games for it, I wouldn't put any effort into making it that much better. Seems pretty clear to me... the games - which occupy vastly more tima than messing with hardware. ;)
 
It think they are both equally important.

But for some games. I find myself caught up for hours downloading awsome mods and tweaks for it more then I actually play the game lol.

Like today. I just reformatted.
I must of spent close to 3 hours reading up, downloading and installing mods, high res weapon textures and adding in a bunch of custom songs on GTAIV today.

I think I played it about 20 minutes. lol. It pays off in the long run though.
 
meh... i said both. I just bought a new build yesterday. My old system still run smooth but i had the opportunity and took it!
 
Definitely the hardware. Games are just a way for me to show off my $1200 rig =)
 
I gotta say I build new rigs for super-hyped games. Then I end up enjoying having the leetest PC on the block over the game.
 
Hardware.

Extreme cable management, water cooling, case modding, etc. = hours of fun.

I'm huge into games too and definitely love spending time on them, but I find the 'planning and executing' type thing with case work to be quite fun. If you just mean standard installation of parts and overclocking, etc. then I'd say games. That stuff is also fun, especially overclocking, but games probably edges out non-case modding related hardware.
 
I'm surprised by how the poll is turning out so far. I just kind of assumed at a place like [H] there'd be more people like me that just use games as an excuse to work on all this crap.
 
Cos I'm an electronic engineer, computer hardware is my thing :)
I love gaming as well though so have a really nice living room AV/Plasma setup to play on.
My hardware is clocked nicely to get the mostest :)
Clocking it is just as much fun as playing games, especially as it saves me tons of cash!
 
If I could give you a percentage I would say.. 65% hardware 35% videogames.
 
guitarslingerchris said:
I'm surprised by how the poll is turning out so far. I just kind of assumed at a place like [H] there'd be more people like me that just use games as an excuse to work on all this crap.
Click to expand...

Really the poll isn't that accurate. It is after all in the "general gaming" subforum (if you were not interested in games you'd never see it). But i didn't know where else to put it.
 
I actually think my next PC is more than a showoff than a real upgrade. Hell I was able to play all my games fine on my current PC. But after 4 years i really think it was time to upgrade to something new and fresh.

My current PC will have a good home anyway!
 
Nenu said:
My hardware is clocked nicely to get the mostest :)
Clocking it is just as much fun as playing games, especially as it saves me tons of cash!
Click to expand...
Oh Yeah. No Doubt.

Clocking I think is the best part of PC's.
I spend all day yesterday clocking my i7 and messing with voltages and memory.
It's such a great feeling to finally get eveything stable and see the difference in speed and performance.
I OC everything :p
 
I have equal amounts of fun playing with hardware and playing games. The whole experience wouldn't be the same without one of them. It's one of the reasons I prefer PC gaming to console gaming as well.
 
I also voted for both equally. Without one there probably wouldn't be the other, although lately I've been more interested in the hardware side of things in terms of tweaking, quieting down, and cooling my system overall. The cable managing and cleaning (yes, even cleaning) ended up being a lot of fun for me as well. Maybe I'm just a pervert for physically playing with my hardware. :D

Even moreso, I've finally started becoming more productive with my sig rig in dabbing into digital imagery, creating huge panoramas, and even just started video editing too all for one of my class projects. Having the processing power that I have makes doing the work much less frustrating, in comparison to what other students have to get by with run-of-the-mill laptops. Definitely a pleasant outcome to my pre-existing gaming habits. :cool:
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top