Bored Druid Thread: The Next GenerationFollow

This is my current shopping basket, it's grown a few hundred bucks since I started planning it.

Later this year there will be a second GTX 770 and another set of ram added for the overkill.

I forget, but there's an i7-4771 and GTX 770 in there, plus 16 gigs of RAM. The stuff that cost a lot of money, aside from the processor and video card, was the 500 GB SSD. In hindsight, I could have settled for the 250 GB one since all my games are installed on the secondary disk.



Half a month's paycheck for me at the time. I'm single and have very few living expenses. Not gonna lie, I had to consider it for a moment, but if there ever was a time to blow money, it was then..

Edited, Apr 5th 2014 10:14pm by Mazra

Wait, what about their mechanics is a limit of the engine?

See, this is why my desktop is nearly five years old, dead as a doornail, and I'm gaming on my laptop. I go over my budget each time and think, "I'll wait a few months and prices will come down, and my budget will increase." But then my daughter.

Maybe you're just so bad at the other games that the reason you don't see any of those hopeless cases is because they're barely worse than you are.

In other news, my desk chair broke... I wasn't even sitting in it... Doesn't that violate the first law of thermodynamics or something?

Now I need to decide if I'm factoring the cost of a chair into my build, or if I'm eating that as an additional cost... Thankfully I'm not demanding.

I'm going to be stalking you on reddit now.

It's tough being greedy, isn't it?

It is.

The hardest part is trying to make these decisions without having real data to go off of. Do I need a quad core? I know I don't need a quad core right now, but will that be a huge deciding factor in two years? Will getting the quad core now give me another year before I have to upgrade, or will it be more like two years? And will the performance difference in the meantime be noticeable?

And then we have GPUs... You can pretty much always drop another $40 to get better frame rates at higher settings. So where do you decide what the good enough point is? And then what do you decide about CPU cost vs. GPU cost?

Here is the build that's probably more than I should be spending.

Drop the GPU down. About $90 less.

Drop to a dual core from quad (still have 2 non-physical cores with hyperthreading). $60 less than that one.

I could drop another $30-50 by going for the R9 270 from the Nvidia card.

Lifehacker made one a little bit ago. I find the biggest issue, though, is that prices can fluctuate quite a bit. So when you look up their parts list, it could be $100+ more.

As of right now, I'm debating between these two cases:

NZXT
Rosewill

I prefer the NZXT, I think, but I still made a thread on Reddit for input there, since they're all pretty big on using the cheapest cases you can get.

Is a 650W supply enough for all that?

Honestly, the biggest problem is that the only game I particularly care about is Dragon Age Inquisition, and the specs aren't out yet.

My Steam library is so full of games I never played because my PC didn't play them quite as well as I wanted it to... So I'll be going through a backlog for some time anyway. The fact that I have literally no clue what else is coming out this year besides DAI certainly helps.

And let's be honest, the first things I'm going to do are:

1. Replay ME/DA, because I have an addiction.
2. Load up WoW, just to glory in how pretty it is, since it's easily my best point of comparison in all of gaming.
3. +1