I've had enough of EverQuest 2 only running at 20fps.

So I am buying a new PC again next month.

/me facepalms

We have a solution: Stop playing EQ2. Its the cheaper solution

but when he's not playing EQ2 he will have what jocks know as a "social life". This will involve going out, drinking, partying and so on. As a result of this, he will be spending a lot of money.

Therefore an equation is required taking into account how much money will be spent either way and we can work out what the cheaper solution is.

The cheapest solution is to be me -> Do neither!

It's definitely cheaper than going out and doing all that social crap.

I do have my old motherboard and old memory and old case... I could build up from that again. But probably wouldn't be happy with it...

lol

What mobo/ram is it, and also what case. Shouldn't really have to update cases very often. Also I would recommend buying mid range, I7 or high end C2D. I would advise strongly against buying the best of the best, as it will be blown away pretty soon, since intel and amd are going to actually start making decent new and or alot better revisions to new chips pretty soon.

I thought you had one of the Best PCs in Techious

He did, then he sold half of it.

I did get a cool laptop out of it though... which I will probably keep. Yeah.. I will keep it. It has a Blu-ray drive and that's pretty cool.



It was a C2Q Q9650 at 3.4GHz, 4GB DDR3 1600MHz 7-6-6-20, 2x Radeon 4870X2, Asus Rampage Extreme, case was Lian-Li PC-P80 which has never done me any wrong. Monitor used to be a 3007WFPHC but I sold it to a CAD guy for decent money, ended up buying a mid-range 22 inch from Samsung and regretted it horribly... next system will have the 3008WFP for 100% certain. Anything less is shit.

£1000 for a monitor

Meh it's your money. If your willing to spend that much, you should probs go for something a little better ; 120hz incase 3d ever gets going.

The Dell monitors have sublime quality.

Send me one, I'll check

Mind I do really want a better monitor atm, my 20" is way to small when I want to watch telly or dvds. May go for a proper tv for that though, keep this for gaming.

£1000 on a monitor is very worth it. I was debating it a lot when I spent £825 on my 3007WFPHC... but then I thought that it's one of the most important parts of your system (possibly with exception to the keyboard and mouse!) since you are going to be looking at it almost all of the time...

That and 2560x1600 is just incredible, and going down from it hurts a lot. Even 1920x1200 feels small now.

Heh I can't comment, only using 1650 X 1080 atm. Suppose if I went for a sweet monitor it would suck to have to use something crappy again. But to me £1000 is waaay too much atm, maybe once I get a proper job after uni. But atm I think i'll save up 400-600 see if I can get anything decent in that rage (1920 x 1200 perhaps).

1920x1200 is good really but I've become fussy over resolution since the 30 incher.

£1000 is a lot of money but it doesn't seem like much any more. Working in IT pays quite well when you put in the hours.

And... obviously... I skip any part of the review relating to cost.