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[Mr. Smith]

Right then people.

My mate works in PR and has wrangled me a day at Toshiba in London.

Toshiba intend to enter the gaming pc market and want input. For my efforts I get expenses, a free digi cam and to mess with their offerings... I don't have all the details yet.

I think the theme is 'What makes a good gaming PC?'

So...

What makes a good gaming PC?

 

[JN]

So...

What makes a good gaming PC?

Good games to play on it

 

[Azreil_2]

17" screen?

Newest Mobile Graphics possible?

Reasonable Memory?

Stylish looks (instead of the plain look they normaly have )

Not cluttered with junk, well apart from game demos or somthing?

meh

sounds like it should be cool tho so have fun mate

 

[Rastalovich]

"good" ?

 

[Ham]

PC or lappys?

For PCs its powerful hardware and CLEAN installed os'.

Would it be legal to nlite windows and sell it? (with legit licences obviously)

 

[Dav0s]

i expect so, dell butcher XP when they sell it dont they. infact most companies do.

 

[Mr. Smith]

"good" ?

You know perfectly well what I mean It was purposely vague so all aspects were encapsulated. All users have different needs, I assume there will be some core ones that emerge from the answers...



Good:

Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor

Having the qualities that are desirable or distinguishing in a particular thing

Serving the desired purpose or end; suitable

Superior to the average.

This is for PC's - desktops. Think about everything that is wrong with other pre made desktops.

Cheers Ham btw.

 

[llwyd]

reliability and consistency, in all areas (including the OS)

all this junk with lights strapped onto it being labeled as 'Gaming' gear is a load of crap. look at the intellimouse, about as un-flash as they come but its a solid performer and therefor, the most popular mouse ever made.

 

[Mr. Smith]

So,

Can you list maybe best components for Entry Level Gaming PC, Mid Level and High End... I think everyone knows top end but I think entry and mid should be interesting...

Waranty to cover OC'ing?

 

[jiffz]

Should be ready OC'd tbh and I agree they should have a streamlined OS.

 

[Rastalovich]

You know perfectly well what I mean It was purposely vague so all aspects were encapsulated. All users have different needs, I assume there will be some core ones that emerge from the answers...



Good:

Being positive or desirable in nature; not bad or poor

Having the qualities that are desirable or distinguishing in a particular thing

Serving the desired purpose or end; suitable

Superior to the average.

This is for PC's - desktops. Think about everything that is wrong with other pre made desktops.

Cheers Ham btw.

This is the thing, most of the suggests I see are more for more than that.

A "Good" pc sold for gaming, either has to be entry level or extreme. So "good" is too vague a statement for a requirement imo.

They basically need a good standard mobo, with a good amount of memory, a good cpu, a good gfx card, a good soundcard, a good case & psu, a good optical, a good quiet cooling system, a good hdd and a good OS. With a few good games preinstalled.

No1 here would buy one of those, cept if they`re buying for `the mrs` or their kids. I still wouldn`t unless it was highly upgradeable.

A positive or desirable pc, that`s not bad or poor and superior to the average, having the qualities that are desirable or distinguishing in the gaming world that plays games as the user desires.

Outside of extreme game machines that don`t do as much as they cost, that`s gonna be tricky.

 

[equk]

all this junk with lights strapped onto it being labeled as 'Gaming' gear is a load of crap.

idd :worship:

seems to be so much gimmicky 'gamers' stuff about

people must buy it tho as I see it in the pc gallery etc

imaginary reps

 

[ionicle]

if they use all quality componants, like tagan psu's, or even pcp&c, and XFX graphics, and say dfi mainboards, with decent spec processors, perhaps ocz ram, and non-generic everything else too...

 

[deepfried]

if they use all quality componants, like tagan psu's, or even pcp&c, and XFX graphics, and say dfi mainboards, with decent spec processors, perhaps ocz ram, and non-generic everything else too...

I think your getting a lil carried away there.....

 

[Rastalovich]

if they use all quality componants, like tagan psu's, or even pcp&c, and XFX graphics, and say dfi mainboards, with decent spec processors, perhaps ocz ram, and non-generic everything else too...

Trouble is there, I can see the price esculating with each quality group u mention.

 

[Azreil_2]

TBH we all know that to get a GOOD Gamers pc you'd build ur own.

However for a Pre-Built System they are always gonna have to cut corners somwhere to make it profitable.

I think Aslong as the system is Stable, and can play the games which is targeted at (according to the pricE) AND that it isnt full of the normal crap that they stick on prebuilds it would be good.

 

[MikeEnIke]

Meh, a mid-range 8000

A 500w PSU

and e6600

a 320GB HDD

and a 19 inch monitor

Would be a pretty good gaming rig. Could even go lower on the proccy tbh.

 

[Ham]

The main weakness of the pre-built systems is the graphics card. Most other components, despite the fact they're generic ram etc, are reasonable.

Another thing they'll need too do is make sure they use decent motherboards with the faster chipsets and with room to upgrade.

Eg. A mate had a dell motherboard with no agp slot. The chip supported it, the motherboard was built for it, the solder points were there. Dell just saved 5p by not putting on the slot itself. Wtf.

 

[Azreil_2]

Maybe they could make a Gaming pc with all the previous mentions, but offer a "Step-up" program like that of EVGA? lol that would be, diffrent

 

[nrage]

Funny you should ask, Toms has a set of articles trying to build Low, Mid-range, and High-End gaming machines:

Low:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/05/08/system_builder_marathon/page7.html

Mid:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/05/09/system_builder_marathon/page7.html

High:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/05/10/system_builder_marathon/page12.html

All Three:

http://www.tomshardware.com/2007/05/11/system_builder_marathon/page2.html

(I linked to the page in the article with component listings)

I really like the idea of a pre-installed, trimmed, lean and mean OS install on one condition; You get a normal copy of the OS installation CD(s) too. I hate it when you only get the 'special' restore cd.

The lean and mean OS could be an automated specially build windows install which comes with all the latest drivers installed.