01-23-2009, 01:48 PM
(This post was last modified: 01-23-2009, 01:51 PM by Concillian.)
Quote: $800 gaming desktop will be low end as well, most likely capable of playing D3, but don't expect stellar performance. A $1200 desktop will be a good mid range gaming pc, if you can skip buying a monitor. Add $250-300 for an average 19" LCD.
If you build it yourself, you can put together a pretty decent "mid-range gaming PC" for about $600
p43 or p45 mobo
e7400
4 gigs ram
combined those are about $250ish
9800GT or HD4830 ~$125ish
~300-500 GB HD
keyboard / mouse
DVD Drive
$125 ish
case / 400W-ish PSU - $100ish
Vista $100
add it all up and you're around $600 plus shipping or whatever. That's in the US. I have no idea how things change where other people live. But this assumes access to a monitor. That can break the whole concept if you have only been using a laptop screen.
This is not anything near low end or incapable at 1280x1024. In fact, most modern games will run well at max or close to max settings.
The idea though, is that this dollar amount for a decent gaming machine probably won't change much. You can buy a cheap laptop now, and whenever Diablo III comes out, you can buy similarly priced desktop components and end up with Windows7, and likely a better CPU and video card.
Conc / Concillian -- Vintage player of many games. Deadly leader of the All Pally Team (or was it Death leader?)
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.
Terenas WoW player... while we waited for Diablo III.
And it came... and it went... and I played Hearthstone longer than Diablo III.