1000$ for One part of the PC.
3000$ for NVIDIA 12Gb GDDR5 for the GPU.

I guess if you want to be an early adopter.

"1000$ for One part of the PC.
3000$ for NVIDIA 12Gb GDDR5 for the GPU."

I guess if you want to be an early adopter.

I don't need this CPU. I use a i7-4930K which will give me at least four years minimum.

Also GPU wise I use a GTX 770 which is not expensive but want to upgrade to a GTX 880 when one is launched with 16 GB GDDR5 ram.

I guess you can say I'm an early adopter but I want to game at 4K soon so it will be needed. I have the money so why not.

But PC gaming isn't expensive as people seem to make it out and the money I save on software is easy compared to consoles. Also the fact that games don't transfer over between generations is crazy. PC gaming is about a higher upfront cost but a better overall saving.

@hero

That $3000 gpu is for 3d modelling and game development not playing games.

My nearly 5 year old GTX 470 still plays 98% of games at 1080p/45-50fps on high/ultra settings and the $150 GTX 750ti completely blows it out of the water. You in no way need a high end card just for 1080p.

^^^ You do if you want 120 fps and max settings.

I think console gaming has helped push pc gaming forward in that regard. Look at Mantle/DX12, tons of new features that will help pc gaming move faster.

It is part of the reason why I am holding off on a new pc build. Waiting for the consoles to have an effect like they seem to be doing now.

@mkis007

Mantle/DX12 isn't really for consoles. They are specifically for PC to get more out of the CPUs and GPUs. Consoles don't really push PC they kinda hinder it as you see with developers making console and PC games similar which is silly.

Consoles use tablet CPUs and low range GPUs. They aren't pushing anything. That being said I have all three consoles due to the great exclusive games on all three.

Here's the thing consoles are weak but it's about the great games you can only find on them. That's why I laugh when they bicker about resolution and frame rate because if they truly cared you would also get a PC.

@mkis007 these technologies didn't come from consoles, they were simply well-optimized for the consoles. Specially Mantle - AMD did a great job pushing the PS4. But of course, the PS4 is yet far from PCs...

Consoles have 8 cores. Only six of which (in the case of ps4) are dedicated for the games themselves and 4.5 gb of the 8 gigs of gddr5 memory are reserved for devs to use for games.

you do realize that CPU in current gen consoles are 8 core low powered APU and it can never par with a 4 core i7 you do realize that don't you..
and 8 core i7 will have 16 threads and each threads are way more powerful than a single core in current gen consoles ....
so please stop comparing the sun with the moon..

i said games indeed use 8 cores in pc

Thanks for the list. I'll definitely switch out a few things on my original list with what's there.
I was planning on going with a 250 gb ssd and a 4 TB hard drive.
Just keeping the essential or most used programs on the SSD. Beyond the browser and OS I don't see myself keeping to much on it, any reason for a full 500 GB?

I just wanted to say that programmers already get the most out of PC cpu's. X86 has been in use since the 1970's and it is taught at university computer programming classes. There is no more efficiency to be had for other types of software, only gaming will see the benefit because of the overhead from DirectX.

All API's do is allow programmers to take the lazy way out. If they bothered to use Intel's compiler or AMD's compiler then they would easily max out x86 CPU's for gaming, but they will not bother with that when they can simply write the same code that Directx then translates into data that all GPU's and CPU's can understand which in turn burns up more CPU cycles.

Benchmark software, scientific software, video editing software and simulation software all use X86 CPU's to their fullest abilities as they are programmed to use the SSE instructions or whatever latest instructions there are. In fact, when a new processor comes out with new instructions, these software companies release a patch that will update the software to take full advantage of the new instructions of the new x86 CPU's.

@PCpower

That is absolutely not true. You seriously think those applications are written in pure X86? A majority of all 'powerful' software runs purely on OpenGL (with GLUT or similar) or DirectX that is written in C/C++ and then compiled (into X86, exactly as games are). Since when have benchmarks or video editing software ever had downloads for every single CPU/GPU?

These declines are on the back of extra revenue received from releasing games like Forza horizon 5 on PlayStation. So I’m being sarcastic here when I said they should go back to exclusives. Killing off a revenue stream from Ps5 sales will only make things worse