The Best Gaming PC Money Can Buy

SlappingOysters writes "Gameplayer has gone live with their best PC hardware configurations for Q3 2008. They've broken it into three tiers depending on the investor's budget. And while the prices are regional, it is comparative across the globe. 'In order to play these slices of gaming goodness, you're going to need a decent rig, and we sent our PC hardware guru in search of maximum frames in maximum detail, but at a minimum cost. We have three tiers for the three levels of PC gamers out there and all the detail you could possibly want on where, why and what to buy. So choose your poison and get amongst it.'"

Comments

Yes, but...

[Anonymous Coward]

What kind of telnet programs do they come with for mudding?

oh christ

[nimbius]

and i just closed the newegg tab...

looks like ramen again this month

Re:oh christ

[Opportunist]

What do you mean, "this month"? Priorities, man, food or bleedin' edge hardware, pick one!

Re:oh christ

[Opportunist]

You don't need to starve, brother. There's a lot of fiber in newspaper and if you flush it down with some coke, you even have the essential dose of caffeine for the day. You can grind and dissolve stale bread in (lots of) water and drink the slurry (again, coke makes things interesting here, too!) to fill your stomach...

Can you tell I just spent 2k on a new monitor system? :)

Re:oh christ

[morgan_greywolf]

As a transplanted Floridian, I heartily recommend the palmetto bugs. You can put them on a stick and roast them over an open flame or just fry 'em up in a pan.

Mmmmm....Crunchy.

Up North, I hear you can do much the same with various small rodents.

Re:The investor's budget?

[Ethanol-fueled]

Yes, an investment in planned obsolescence.

Re:$10K US for a gaming rig?

[jgarra23]

Don't forget, you're talking about the same kind of people who will spend months clacking away on a fake guitar with the goal of making a digital crowd cheer when they could be practicing with a REAL guitar, get REAL cheers and likely get laid for REAL too.

Re:$10K US for a gaming rig?

[Anonymous Coward]

and likely get laid for REAL too

Holy shit, I'm buying a guitar right fucking now!

Re:luv 2 brag

[truthsearch]

I feel really old right now because I don't understand a single thing you wrote.

Buying guide...

[geogob]

They should come up with a set of configurations for the best /.-proof PC servers for 2008 as well.

Re:luv 2 brag

[gfxguy]

Vista 64 was free, huh?

Re:$10K US for a gaming rig?

[Anonymous Coward]

And yet...here you are posting about it on Slashdot.

Re:$10K US for a gaming rig?

[Naqamel]

I'll second what Turgid said. Guitar = Chick Magnet.

I was at a Sam Goody store which happened to have a Guitar Hero game set up. It also had a guitar / amp package they were selling set up. Crappy guitar, worse amp... but whatever.

Some dork was trying to play Guitar Hero and impress 3 girls. Song: Bark at the Moon.

So I pick up the real guitar, and start playing Bark at the Moon on the real guitar.

You've never seen three heads whip around like that. Poor guy. I got all his attention.

Re:$10K US for a gaming rig?

[jollyreaper]

Don't forget, you're talking about the same kind of people who will spend months clacking away on a fake guitar with the goal of making a digital crowd cheer when they could be practicing with a REAL guitar, get REAL cheers and likely get laid for REAL too.

Funny you should mention that, they're working on Masturbation Hero. You'll get a load out of the controller for that game.

1 GB / $ HD?

[FireIron]

Are hard drives down to 1GB per dollar yet? I remember when they hit 1MB per dollar, and it was a big deal at the time. I had an onion tied to my belt...

Re:luv 2 brag

[powerlord]

I feel really old right now because I don't understand a single thing you wrote.

Allow me to try and explain ...
He said:

e8500, 4gb ddr2 1066, p5q-3, 4870, freezer 7 pro, rosewill case, 250 gb hd = $1050

e8500 ... hmmm maybe its a new eMachine that he used as a base to build on?
4gb ddr2 1066 ... ah! he picked up "Four "Gnarly-Bro" Dance Dance Revolution 2 pads. "1066" you'll notice is 42 more than 1024, so 1066 is just a "Really Cool" in binary.
freezer 7 pro ... well ... CPUs are hot nowadays so he bought an air conditioner to cool the room down. Quite sensible.
rosewill case ... hmmm must be one of those cases with alien eyes on it or something. I guess he'll pull the guts out of the e8500 and put them in there so it looks cool?
250 gb hd ... ah. He also picked up 250 "Gnarly-Bro" HighDensity floppies. Must be to back up his save games and make "backup" copies for friends.

Sounds like a neat gaming rig ...

Then again maybe it was l33t speak? ... or not ;)

Re:The investor's budget?

[jonaskoelker]

guaranteed to decrease in value over time

True and stated: Whenever you buy a computer C at time t0, there's a time t1 > t0 such that val(t0, C) < val(t1, C).

Possible and not stated: there is a time t2 >> t1, such that val(t2, C) > val(t0, C), due to num(t2, C) << num(t0, C).

That is, your old Amiga 500 might become a collectors item some day :)

Re:$10K US for a gaming rig?

[afabbro]

I can play most of Neil Young's Heart of Gold on real guitar.

That's the kind of risk you take when you decide to learn to play guitar.

Re:$10K US for a gaming rig?

[schklerg]

In my experience (bass player), girls go in this order - singer, lead guitar, drums, backup guitar, keyboards, triangle, roadie, drunk passed out fan, then bassist. Of course, hideous disfigurations can alter this order.

Re:The investor's budget?

[Tanktalus]

Apparently, it's worth twice as much with a full tank as with an empty one.

What levels are these?

[Sockatume]

We have three tiers for the three levels of PC gamers out there

From the prices I assume those levels are "lives in own property", "lives with parents", and "purely hypothetical".