Hardware PC component prices are just stupid right now

Foxi4 · May 15, 2019

Silent_Gunner said:
I'm actually thinking the RAM requirements/recommendations may rise to 32GB. I have 16GB myself, but you have to remember that what we once thought was a lot of power will be outdone in the future, always. Not that you should go and pursue always being at the top spec-wise when it comes to building a PC, of course! XD

Nowadays assets are mostly streamed and graphics cards themselves already have ludicrous amounts of RAM on-board to supplement system memory. On the system side you're more interested in latency and bandwidth, and the relation between the two, hence Dual and Quad Channel setups. Typically the amount of system memory required doubles every generation, so a jump from 16 to 32 seems to be a reasonable prediction for the future, but my guess is that 16GB will serve you well for the time being.

Hanafuda said:
Good point. Prices aren't bad, if you're not dedicated to some niche shit (like I'm thinking about). Our home desktop is a i5-7400@3ghz, 16GB RAM, GTX1060 3GB. For a 'serious' gamer, it's subpar. But as a family PC, it's great. It's plenty. Handles 4K vid, runs Dolphin @ 1080p nicely, has wifi and bluetooth and included Win10. It's a competent PC, for anything but maxed out gaming and studio-grade vid editing I guess. And it was cheap. About $600, and that was a year ago.

Maybe that's why I'm having the sticker shock on the vid cards.

To be honest I think you're just in the initial building stage. Like grief, PC building has five stages. You've breezed through shock, denial and anger, now you're bargaining with us, next you'll be a little depressed that no matter what you do your Beast Machine won't really run the way you want it to and then finally you can start testing more feasible builds and end up with a really good machine at the acceptance stage.

zomborg · May 15, 2019

I agree, it won't take long before 16 becomes not enough lol

Hanafuda · May 15, 2019

zomborg said:
I agree, it won't take long before 16 becomes not enough lol

I remember when 16 megabytes was a lot. 486dx2 days.

My first PC was a 386. But way before that, I messed around with Tandy TRS-80's, and Apple II's.

What computers can do now is fuggin incredible. Not the flying car, pushbutton world of the future incredible that Disney told me was coming, but still incredible.

zomborg · May 15, 2019

Hanafuda said:
I remember when 16 megabytes was a lot. 486dx2 days.

My first PC was a 386. But way before that, I messed around with Tandy TRS-80's, and Apple II's.

What computers can do now is fuggin incredible. Not the flying car, pushbutton world of the future incredible Disney told me was coming, but still incredible.

Wow! You've been in the game for quite some time. I used an apple II in high school and my first video game console was the Atari 2600 (unless you count the old wood grain pong system) lol
I had always dreamed of one day building my own gaming beast but I didn't really get a chance to until my kids had grown up and moved out.
I finally got to build my $3000 behemoth but sadly it's more for the satisfaction of saying I finally got to build it because now I'm so busy I rarely get to game on it. Lol

Hanafuda · May 15, 2019

zomborg said:
Wow! You've been in the game for quite some time. I used an apple II in high school and my first video game console was the Atari 2600 (unless you count the old wood grain pong system) lol
I had always dreamed of one day building my own gaming beast but I didn't really get a chance to until my kids had grown up and moved out.
I finally got to build my $3000 behemoth but sadly it's more for the satisfaction of saying I finally got to build it because now I'm so busy I rarely get to game on it. Lol

Sounds like we're both in the 'long in the tooth' bracket for this place. Class of '85 here.

I hear ya about finding time. My youngest is 15 now and she's quite good w/ the violin so chauffeuring her to lessons and gigs is keeping me busy when the job isn't. But in a few years, I'm hoping there'll be a bit more recreation time.

zomborg · May 15, 2019

Hanafuda said:
Sounds like we're both in the 'long in the tooth' bracket for this place. Class of '85 here.

I hear ya about finding time. My youngest is 15 now and she's quite good w/ the violin so chauffeuring her to lessons and gigs is keeping me busy when the job isn't. But in a few years, I'm hoping there'll be a bit more recreation time.

Oh wow! Your not gonna believe this! I'm class of 85 too. That's awesome about your daughter and the violin. My son is very musically inclined too. Piano, guitar and sax but he's too busy with college now.
Here's hoping you find more time eventually but the negative side is once you have more time the house may be empty at that point. (just you and your wife)
Then you start missing the days when they were still home.

Hardware PC component prices are just stupid right now

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