Recommendations for Gaming PC

April 23, 2020, 06:04 AM

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Originally posted by Jester814:
Holy shit at the guy in here saying "not really" to getting a gaming PC under 4k.

An mid level gaming PC should cost around $1200-1500 with all peripherals included. The current "one step under the top end" video card, the RTX 2070, is around $450, not $1200, and that's generally going to be the single most expensive piece of equipment, with the CPU being the second priciest.

You can certainly get a decent gaming pc for under 1k.

There's a website that lays out which parts you should get for your budget. I'll see if I can find it.

I agree, especially if the goal is to have good visuals at YouTube level quality (1080 is fine).

I've been an NVIDIA guy lately, so I can't translate directly to ATI for an equivalency, but a GEFORCE RTX 2060 at $300 is probably more than adequate for high settings with the right supporting CPU and RAM and not trying to drive a (or multiple) 4K display. My GTX 1070 (a generation old) runs COD:MW at 60 fps on a 2560x1080 ultrawide using a laptop with an 8th gen Core i7 and the GPU in a thunderbolt enclosure.

No real "need" for a top end $1k graphics card.
No real "need" for water cooling.
No need at all for a case with LEDs and acrylic windows.

No need to shell out $4k. No need to shell out even $2k.

Did anybody read the part that said this is for a NINE YEAR OLD?

April 23, 2020, 10:12 AM

Aeteocles

quote:
Originally posted by sgalczyn:
Or......you can tell him to go outside and climb a tree.

You "gamers" worry me.......

Gaming viewership is anticipated to exceed football viewership by as soon as 2025, if not already because of coronavirus.

There are billions of dollars in revenue stream up for grabs for people who can generate content for others to watch.

There are kids making millions upon millions of dollars playing video games, right now. Most of them aren't even actually good at the game, just entertaining to watch.

I know a wealthy family who has a competitive gaming coach for their son, just like you would hire a golf instructor or tennis coach if your child was competitive.

Telling a kid these days that games are a waste of time, or to go "climb a tree", is like telling a kid that they shouldn't have learned "computers" in the late 90's. Spoiler alert for someone still living in 90's, software engineers make good money today--many will become multi millionaires in their 20's and 30's for being in the right place at the right time.

I vote that you buy this kid some decent hardware, focus a little extra money on some post production software, maybe an extra web cam and good mic, work on the lighting in his room, and see where this rolls.

Shit, the first person to take a YouTube video of their kid opening and then playing with a fucking toy probably had no idea their kid would be taking in millions upon millions of dollars for them.

April 23, 2020, 02:16 PM

cruiser68

quote:
Originally posted by Aeteocles:
quote:
Originally posted by sgalczyn:
Or......you can tell him to go outside and climb a tree.

You "gamers" worry me.......

Gaming viewership is anticipated to exceed football viewership by as soon as 2025, if not already because of coronavirus.

There are billions of dollars in revenue stream up for grabs for people who can generate content for others to watch.

There are kids making millions upon millions of dollars playing video games, right now. Most of them aren't even actually good at the game, just entertaining to watch.

I know a wealthy family who has a competitive gaming coach for their son, just like you would hire a golf instructor or tennis coach if your child was competitive.

Telling a kid these days that games are a waste of time, or to go "climb a tree", is like telling a kid that they shouldn't have learned "computers" in the late 90's. Spoiler alert for someone still living in 90's, software engineers make good money today--many will become multi millionaires in their 20's and 30's for being in the right place at the right time.

I vote that you buy this kid some decent hardware, focus a little extra money on some post production software, maybe an extra web cam and good mic, work on the lighting in his room, and see where this rolls.

Shit, the first person to take a YouTube video of their kid opening and then playing with a fucking toy probably had no idea their kid would be taking in millions upon millions of dollars for them.

Gaming can be an extremely lucrative field if you are good.

April 23, 2020, 04:58 PM

Aeteocles

quote:
Originally posted by cruiser68:

Gaming can be an extremely lucrative field if you are good.

Gaming can be extremely lucrative even if you SUCK.

There's money to be made in being good and winning competitions.

There's even MORE money to be made by simply generating entertaining content for people to watch.

Literally, you cannot be "good" at Minecraft. But there are people making tens of thousands of dollars per hour of online video of them literally just dicking around inside of Minecraft literally doing nothing of consequence.

The number 1 YouTube content producer by viewership for many years (I don't know if he's still currently a big deal) is PewDiePie. I watched one of his videos, and it's just him playing through video games and making funny comments. BILLIONS OF VIEWS. MILLIONS UPON MILLIONS OF DOLLARS. For no real ascertainable reason.

For anyone who rolls their eyes at the idea that there may be (or already are) hundreds of millions of eyes locked onto gaming videos at any given moment, consider this: if you've watched sports, then you too have contributed to a billion dollar industry where people watch others play games. A guy in a helmet runs a ball down from one end of the field to the other. Over and over. Millions of spectators, billions of dollars. People doing nothing of consequence, yet I see grown adults wearing team colors like they personally made the team. Wtf.

April 23, 2020, 06:27 PM

sgalczyn

Trees are EMP-proof

April 24, 2020, 07:53 PM

bobtheelf

quote:
Originally posted by sgalczyn:
Trees are EMP-proof

You can do more than one thing.

May 03, 2020, 07:16 PM

ryan81986

quote:
Originally posted by cruiser68:
quote:
Originally posted by Aeteocles:
quote:
Originally posted by sgalczyn:
Or......you can tell him to go outside and climb a tree.

You "gamers" worry me.......

Gaming viewership is anticipated to exceed football viewership by as soon as 2025, if not already because of coronavirus.

There are billions of dollars in revenue stream up for grabs for people who can generate content for others to watch.

There are kids making millions upon millions of dollars playing video games, right now. Most of them aren't even actually good at the game, just entertaining to watch.

I know a wealthy family who has a competitive gaming coach for their son, just like you would hire a golf instructor or tennis coach if your child was competitive.

Telling a kid these days that games are a waste of time, or to go "climb a tree", is like telling a kid that they shouldn't have learned "computers" in the late 90's. Spoiler alert for someone still living in 90's, software engineers make good money today--many will become multi millionaires in their 20's and 30's for being in the right place at the right time.

I vote that you buy this kid some decent hardware, focus a little extra money on some post production software, maybe an extra web cam and good mic, work on the lighting in his room, and see where this rolls.

Shit, the first person to take a YouTube video of their kid opening and then playing with a fucking toy probably had no idea their kid would be taking in millions upon millions of dollars for them.

Gaming can be an extremely lucrative field if you are good.

Yep, that's how Pewdiepie, Markiplier and the like made their millions. Each of them is worth over $20 million. As someone else said though, the key is having a personality and being entertaining to watch, not necessarily good.