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GamerAuthority-Woody-"Good" "Wireless" and "Headset" are three words that will never go together, especially for under $100.
Wireless headphones always have a staticy sound in them, regardless of how good they are.
I'd have to disagree. I have the Astro A50's and they work flawlessly.
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then they buy a cool game like Dying Light and go on Steam to write negative reviews saying its a bad console port that runs like crap on their leet beast OC'd machines.
That's because the game developers test their games on mainstream PC's - Dell, HP, Acer, etc before it's shipped. They can't and don't test it on OC's club frankenmachines.
I used to OC and custom build. It was never worth all the problems, it's cool at first then the novelty wears off after you hit a few games that don't run right and you can't figure out why. If you really can't afford to buy a better video card and want to try to squeeze out a few frames or whatever, that's fine.. but if you can actually afford the components, just go buy the one you want and run them at factory speeds.
PC parts are sold at their highest safely tested rating. They have already been tested by the manufacturer (who know alot more about their part than we do) and failed some internal test while running at a higher rating and that is why they are sold with the lower clock speed. It's called "Product binning". Any search engine search will turn up information about it. When a manufacturer that has a long product line of different speed parts - exactly like GPU manufacturers AMD/ATI and NVIDIA, they lose money having to bin the part into a lower clock frequency rating. If they could use the part at a higher clock frequency, they would.
post 2Click to reveal@WTFshady Well like I said, your math is correct they mark up the parts and they get them from the manufacturer for much cheaper than we will ever know.
So your math is absolutely correct but custom built PCs are not as stable as the Dell and HP builds - they may not run the most "optimal" configurations but they have tested 1000's of these machines and the components they put together run stable. The second part beyond the fact that they know the components are very stable together, is that the game developers test their games on Dell and HP machines with factory default settings.
As I stated, if you can afford to you should pay the extra markup and buy a brand name PC. What you are paying for is that you know that Dell and HP have already tested all the components in the PC and they are very stable. You also know that game developers have tested their product on HPs and Dells and while they may not have tested it on your exact HP computer configuration, chances are they have used a machine with similar parts. HP and Dell tend to use the same components in all their models, whether it be FoxConn motherboards or MSI motherboards because they have huge contracts with certain manufacturers to save money.
So before they shipped Dying Light and Dead Rising 3, they did in fact test it thoroughly on PCs and they don't just dump their games out onto the streets so they can receive tons of negative reviews. They test their games on widespread PC configurations, namely the Dells and HPs.
When you build your own machine to save money, you take the chances that some cool game will not run correctly or will blue screen or crash, or any number of weird things that may not be that obvious like slow framerates in certain areas of the game. If you can afford it, buy a brand name PC. It doesn't guarantee you won't ever have a problem, but you are far far more on the positive side of the game "probably will run correctly" statistics.
post 3Click to reveal... and yes, SSD for the operating system (plus some extra space for a few games or apps) is a "should have" component if you can afford it. So is getting a large screen... they are so cheap, why would anyone buy a tiny screen nowadays.
I see some people nerding out about clock frequencies and then saying SSD doesn't matter and you don't need anything larger than a 20 inch monitor? Really? Buying overpriced top tier speed CPUs and GPUs, where you are paying a huge premium for tiny speed increases where you will hardly even notice the fractions of a second difference in framerates and apps running and then cheaping out $50 for a tiny monitor that your eyes will squint at for hours on end.. that makes no sense.
whoever made that comment about my monitor choice (i dont care enough to go look) was obviously trolling.. You do know that your eyes can't tell the difference between a 7ms gray-to-gray and a 5ms gray-to-gray rate, and 2ms gray-to-gray right? My pick was purely made to illustrate the fact that you can buy a 27 inch IPS monitor built by a well respected monitor manufacturer at an affordable price, and the monitor nearly all 5 star reviews after 428 reviewers so I feel comfortable recommending it.
post 4Click to revealwoody was obviously trolling though, he keeps digging on me about the video cards included in the machines and right in the same sentence I said the video cards are crap and need to be replaced.. and then goes on to say I don't know anything about PCs..
thanks for the trolling, next...
you guys also realize you are blindly recommending custom building a PC (apparently to save them money and get the "best performance") to someone and you never even asked if he wants to or is technically capable of doing it, right?
My recommendations are a fine one given the information that I know - he can afford to buy a nice PC and he wants a "good machine" within his budget. Even if he can assemble and configure his own machine, he may not know what hes getting into, just make sure u give him ur cell phone number so he has a self described 'Expert' to call when he runs into a problem or has a question.
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