Anyone here dropped out of the PC market and went to consoles? I just posted this in the other thread and really just want to share my experience and see if other people are in the same boat.
I actually left PC gaming a few months ago and went console. My rig is still sitting here, the only real thing I actually used it for is posting on 4chan, the rest of the time was playing multiplats and realizing I really don't enjoy them. I've already played most of the PC classics back when they were relevant, I tried MOBAS, online shooters with varying success, I got into a few MMO's but they just aren't real games.
I went with a PS4 and a wiiU and everytime I look at my rig I just feel upset I wasted so much dam money on the thing. My old PC could emulate everything and run just about every game I've played on my new rig although at lower settings but the games just aren't worth really running at higher settings anyway.
I really regret building my fucking PC but can't bring myself to sell it simply because I invested so much time, money and effort int it.
![5408789+_cb187d587d0969e2efe25d61524aef23[1].png](https://i.imgur.com/b3BGt1m.png "5408789+_cb187d587d0969e2efe25d61524aef23[1].png")
>>319646507
>>319646687
Screw you, this isn't a bait post, if its too hard to believe someone may not prefer PC gaming on legitimate grounds then just hide the thread
>>319646507
So what does constitute a real game then?
Bloodborne and Mario Rehash #759?
Also post Speccy.
>>319646774
Please check all the legitimate grounds.
http://www.onlyonconsole.com/
>>319646507
What are you complaining about? You didn't care about PC, and yet you built a solid machine. Why?
>>319646507
>Negetive pressure
>AIO
>SLI
>5.25" Drive isn't even plugged in
>3.5" rack is detachable and still in the case pite having nothing in it
They really fucked this up.
>>319646942
>built a solid machine
>implying it's not some poorfag tier 750Ti junkheap
This is now a mustard thread
Post builds, builds to be, builds you want, builds you have a general outline for and get shilled, some advice and shilled some more.
>be me
>Believe mustard race shitposters on /v/ about superiority of PC over consoles
>Get hyped and spend over $1000 on an Alienware rig to do PC gaming
> Hyped for 1080p/60fps. Pre-order Assassin's Creed Unity , Batman Arkham Knight and Mortal Kombat x
>All run like crap
>Only games with decent performance are Witcher 3 and Far cry 4
>Realise I had spent 4x the price of a console to play inferior console ports
>Realise that I will never play exclusives like Bloodborne , Bayonetta 2 ,Xenoblade X no matter how many petitions I sign
>Realise on pc exclusives are MOBAs and indie pixel games.
>Realise I've been rused. Sell pc and buy laptop for MOBAs and wii u for good exclusives
>>319646507
>MMOs aren't real games
Tell me which one and I'll clearly point out why you're a delusional shit. I swear to god if you say World of Warcraft...
>>319646507
Your own fucking fault.
I play all multiplats on my xbone(only reason being is I prefer the xbox pad over the ps pad)while playing all pc exclusives on a small HTPC running a i3+750 Ti combo.
>>319647313
For this post please refer to >>319646687
>>319646507
>EVE Online
>aren't real games
Look at this casual and laugh!
>>319647313
>alienware
its your fault you're a fucking moron
>>319646507
Are the gfx cards blowing air downwards into the PSU in that?
Mind you, it's the neastest case lyout I've seen in ages. Where's the water cooling pump?
>>319647286
i7 920
6gb ram
970
I'll upgrade when my CPU dies, it's been almost 8 years now.
>buy pc parts
>put them together
>realise you just built a meme machine
>>319647323
>i3+750 Ti
I was pleasantly surprised how well games run on that combo. Affordable af.
>>319646507
>he didn't even play Legend Of Grimrock
>he didn't even play Pathologic
>he didn't even play Pillars Of Eternity
>he didn't even play Starcraft
>he didn't even play Elite Dangerous
>he prefers his multiplats at 900p/~30
>>319647313
>>319646507
>sonykek so mad his b8 thread got deleted he angrily makes another one
https://boards.fireden.net/v/thread/319644738/#319644738
Keep cryinnnn
>>319647580
I'm pretty sure they're blower cards, if not add that to >>319647120
Also the PSU's fan is underneath.
6700k or wait for Broadwell-E?
>>319647820
I find it funny sonyggers are the only ones angry enough to spam the same thing especially when mods shut down their b8 threads
Then again id be regretting my ps4 purchase enough to try to rationalize it online too so I sort of get it
>>319647883
I don't even know how to build a PC, I'm just interested in doing it sooner or later. What's AIO and negative pressure?
>>319647956
Try Cannonlake if not further. It really all depends on if AMD gets there shit together with Zen.They probably won't but I want to believe at the very least they don't shoot themselve in the leg with hype. RIP Titan killer.
Unpopular opinion bread. I'll start.
>PC is objectively better than consoles gaming in every possible way
>Fallout 4 is a great game.
>Nintendo deserves to go under.
>>319647956
Wait for Broadwell-E. The 6700K is overpriced as fuck right now and offers very little performance over old Haswell CPUs.
If you desperately want to make a build right now you should go X99 with a 5920K (as it costs less than the 6700K right now) and could then upgrade to Broadwell-E as the socket remains identical - but perhaps we also get a few improved boards with Broadwell-E and waiting is the better option.
I personally don't expect massive improvements from anything in 2016 though and 2017 will be the first year we see reasonable gains.
>>319648295
>5920K
Meant 5820K (no idea why the next bigger one is then called 5930K).
>>319648094
>What's AIO
'All In One' Water loops. I personally advise against them because the possibility of failure is significantly increased (granted still small but more so than straight air cooling)
>What's negative pressure
Where you have more exhaust than you do intake it cause dust to settle and is generally not fun.
>>319648094
>I don't even know how to build a PC
a monkey can "build" a pc. if you can operate a screwdriver and put square pegs into square holes then you are actually overqualified to build a pc.
>>319648396
It's about 150$ more all in all.
>>319648518
Well you're helpful.
>because I invested so much time
??????
>>319648447
>Where you have more exhaust than you do intake it cause dust to settle and is generally not fun.
Dust filters.
>>319648257
>PC is objectively better than consoles gaming in every possible way
Agreed
>Fallout 4 is a great game.
Nah, decent, not great.
>Nintendo deserves to go under.
Agreed
>>319648864
Why not both.
>>319648447
What's your take on good quality air cooling these days? Are CPUs running cooler these days as technology improves?
>>319648518
Ok, what I meant is I haven't yet. I've got all the faith in the world that I can do it.
I'm actually more reluctant to build anything at the minute with the new architecture coming out. I'd like to see some benchmarks before I commit.
>>319648295
Not that anon, but I have a mid/high PC.
What do you expect could I get at 2017 Pascal's with 1200-1700€?
I really want a new PC, but I currently just have 500€~ and my PC is just one year or a little more. Also I want to get a PS4 to play some incoming games.
>>319648756
He isn't wrong anon you just look at references and youtube you can learn a lot and then just take the plunge the only thing I doubt myself a lot on is connecting the power supply to everything.
>>319648606
Yeah but the performance gains are significant, making the 5820K pull ahead in price/performance ratio. That is if you use SMT at all - for pure gaming the i5 would be the smarter option anyways.
>>319648913
>What's your take on good quality air cooling these days?
I prefer it. For the price of an AIO you can usually get a air cooler that can match it in performance.
>Are CPUs running cooler these days as technology improves?
Well if you go back a decade (perhaps a bit more) you wouldn't have been able to over clock anything with out a custom water loop but as for how things are going now, it's hard to say.
>I'm actually more reluctant to build anything at the minute with the new architecture coming out.
Enjoy always being reluctant then.
>>319649026
That's the thing, i5's are finally starting to become a bottleneck in some new games. Not a dramatic one, but still.
My reason for wanting to upgrade is mostly as preparation for Pascal/Arctic Islands, I'm pretty sure that a 490x/1080 would be bottlenecked by a 4670k.
Yet I find it doubtful I'd actually use the extra 2 cores. On the other hand they might come in handy. Hence the impasse.
>>319649008
And if it were just plugging shit in we'd all be showing off our FX-8350s with 32GB or ram and GTX 560s in 3 way sli.
>>319649287
>I'm pretty sure that a 490x/1080 would be bottlenecked by a 4670k.
In this instance your monitor is bottlenecking your graphics card.
You over estimate how much the cpu actually does in gaming.
>>319649416
Not really, GTA 5 showed cleared signs of being CPU bottlenecked in places even on 1080p. Fallout 4 does as well, to a lesser extent.
>>319646507
>the rest of the time was playing multiplats and realizing I really don't enjoy them
top kek this falseflag. What the fuck are you playing on console then? Worst version of the same games? Or the like 1 exclusive per 16 months that's actually decent?
>>319646507
Thanks for coming out to /v/
announcing yourself as a console pleb is the first step. The second step is killing yourself
>tfw saving money for next GPU gen
>so many games that will be released until than
HURRY THE FUCK UP
>tfw can't find a fucking job
I just want a new graphics card mane
>>319649491
Source?
>paid online
>paid emulation
>shit hardware
Nah, I'll stick to PC.
I don't understand the pc vs consoles thing.
I always had both and love them, why are you americans so angry at both plataforms?
>>319649689
My experience?
In places I've hit 95% to 100% CPU usage with a corresponding decrease in GPU usage and framerate. Not that it was dropping to unplayable levels, but ~40 wasn't uncommon.
And in Fallout I see a similar thing in places - CPU usage at around 85% across all cores with the GPU barely reaching 60% utilization in those spots.
>>319649673
Being this close to Christmas I think you might've lost your opportunity for that.
Regardless if you're relatively fit and can keep your racism in check for more than 5 minutes I recommend looking around the industrial district of your town factories and warehouses are always looking for fresh bodies to put through the meat grinder.
PC threads never mention games being played
Only hardware specs, because that's all they have.
Congratulations on posting on /v/ at 4K 340fps and begging for console ports
>>319646507
>console industry shilling hard this holiday season
>desperately trying to get people to buy, to the point of begging
>>319649879
>tries to start a bait thread
>gets turned into a hardware thread
>tries to bait again
Console gamers are too lazy, not interested enough to find those worthwhile PC exclusives made by small companies and need adverts to tell them what's out and what they should be buying.
>>319646507
These cable sphincters seem like they'd be much more annoyance than they're worth.
>>319649782
I have no idea what it is but you must being doing something wrong.
>>319649287
For gaming definitely don't go with 2011-3 or i7s. I only know of 3 games that scale well with more cores - Witcher 3, Star Ruler 2 and Ashes of the Singularity. Most others are either "optimized" for single- or quad core usage. There's also the very prominent SMT-choke with HT that often causes issues when latency is involved and makes people disable HT on their i7s when gaming a lot, essentially wasting their investment.
The bottleneck at 1080p will shift to GPU as it's likely people will up the resolution. The industry wants to see 4K as the next big thing and (W)QHD has already become the new standard for high-end display manufacturers.
I myself am already sitting on a 1440p@144Hz display (wouldn't advise to get one yet though, quality issues are extreme) and SLI 980tis aren't enough to feed it to a point where an [email protected] can't keep up.
Basic CPU demand of games probably won't increase much further as nobody could play the games - the low-end mainstream accounts for most sales after all. DX12's overhead reduction also makes it likely CPU bottlenecks aren't as much a concern as they are right now.
>>319650005
The sphincter parts are mostly to give a 'clean' look The actual holes are really useful.
>>319650121
If I wanted to remove a component.. it just seems like it'd be a lot of annoyance to pull it through the backing. And the only time I'm opening up my case is when I want to fiddle with it, it's not a big deal to me if there are cluttered but accessible wires.
I guess it'd be useful to some people and if you were a neat freak they'd keep you sane but its not for me.
>>319649879
Just swapped to a new SSD and decided on a clean install for that fresh feeling instead of cloning my (now backup) drive.
Only games I've reinstalled so far + SS13 and Starsector.
r8
>>319649737
what does being american have to do with this
>>319647286
i5
8 GB 2300 ram
R9 380 4gb
Shitty ass slow hdd
The gpu and ram is a recent upgrade. Now I need to get a better hdd, the rpm on this one is atrocious. That's where I skimped when O built it originally, but now the load times are beginning to annoy the shot out of me.
Any tips on a cheapish but good hdd? I don't need an ssd, just an acceptable platter hdd.
PC gaming is a meme at this point. Just look at "the way it's meant to be played" games like Just Cause 3. They are absolutly identical to the console versions and just run at slightly higher frame rate.
>>319650329
Unless you're swapping out components daily it hardly seems like an issue. Especially when you can just unplug it from the part and leave it hanging out of the hole. As for the clutter, it isn't exactly the best for air flow.
>>319647313
>be me
Why do you do 9gag faggots do this? It's redundant.
>>319650401
I picked this up for 50% at $240 on Cyber Monday. It works really well and has the size I want. If the hype is true then it should last for a decade.
>>319650570
I guess that's a good point, but I feel like I'd be more aggravated by tugging on wires trying to get a little extra slack than looking at a clean, empty box.
>>319650401
>I don't need an ssd
Yes you do.
But if you insist.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822236625
>>319648815
Yeah unless he lovingly crafted all the parts himself I can't really see putting adult legos together taking all that much time desu
>>319650329
>I guess it'd be useful to some people and if you were a neat freak they'd keep you sane but its not for me.
Being "neat" is not their main purpose - the reason (aside from visuals that won't even matter in a closed case like every grown-up would use instead of one with glass like 13-year olds want for bragging reasons) to hide cables is to improve airflow and as such enhance cooling potential. The more cables in the case, the more whirling and looping air, the more issues with getting heat out of the case one will have. That matters particularly for high-end GPUs, multi-GPU setups, highly utlized storage solutions and overclcoked CPUs where every degree of heat takes away from OC potential or can even lead automatic downclocking when the TDP should be reached. There's of course also the argument that less temps mean more quiet fans.
>>319650416
Your whole life is a meme kid.
>>319651215
I'd love to see a comparison at peak performance and regular usage between having cables hanging out and about, and having them tucked away.
I'm not buying it at face value that it has that significant of a difference.
>>319647313
>Realise I had spent 4x the price of a console to play inferior console ports
fucking 5 star post
>>319646894
>http://www.onlyonconsole.com/
Wait, that's it? That's really fucking it? All the console mouthbreathers scream about those ''countless'' exclusives and yet this is what they only have?
If this isn't unpaid shilling then I don't know what it is.Not to mention that some games in there will get a PC release anyway.
>>319646507
whats this, a neogaf meme?
>>319650854
An ssd would be wasted, or at the very least it would be something I needed in addition to a new platter hdd. Afaik, you don't want to constantly write to your ssd, since that drastically shortens it's lifespan, and my current hdd is too slow regardless.
That said, thanks for the link. I'll check it out.
>>319652510
Indeed that's it anon. Ironic, isn't it?
![1432259490310[1].jpg](https://i.imgur.com/p65ehML.jpg "1432259490310[1].jpg")
This is an accurate description of OP's current state.
>>319647313
Stopped reading @ Alienware
>>319646507
>Anyone else decide they just prefer not to walk and start using a weelchair? I also got rid of my toilet for an outhouse in the backyard
Quick help
GTX 960 or R9 380
>>319654982
380
>>319655038
even versus a 4GB version of the 960?
>>319646507
I don't agree with moving from consoles, but I'm just about ready to quit gaming, period.
>buy fallout 3
>keeps crashing under 10
>have to install some mod to get it working and that's not guaranteed to fix all my problems
>buy gta5 for pc
>go to install
>[error server cannot connect]
>try to find support
>lots of other people complaining about the same shit
>rockstar official support says to create a new windows account, copy folders to other folder locations under the new account, start update so that my main windows account can connect
>jumping through hoops for a $60 game I bought when these problems did not exist when I first pirated it months ago
I'm just sick of getting bent over when I do the right thing and buy games. DRM is a future we cannot avoid, and it's the cancer pushing me away from gaming. I'm sick of this online-only shit. I'm sick of dealing with problems that should not exist, and if they do, should have been fixed the day they were found. no excuse for a company like rockstar to continue having issues with their client, when the game cost $60 and they've earned billions from this game.
seriously, this shit is causing me to just hate everything. and on top of that, it took their customer support two days to reply to my email.
>>319646507
i got an xbone with XIM4 to play with IRL friends and i've never looked back.
>no tearing
>plenty of gamers online
>no dealing with broken console ports. Batman wins awards on console but is so broken on pc they had to refund monies.
now i notice all the crying mustard race does over thier underutilized epeen rigsand i laugh
>>319655226
You can get a 4 GB version of the 380 as well.
>>319647820
yes but bait or not -I'm gonna use a bad word here- subjectively he is right about Assassin's Creed Unity & Batman Arkham
>Just got my WiiU
>Bluetooth dongle to use WiiU controllers on my PC comes soon
>TFW mid-high tier gaming PC with an i7 4790 and an R9 280x
>TFW all set for the next few years
Feels good
>>319655267
>no dealing with broken console ports.
Uwotm8
>Fallout 4
>Ass Creed Unity
>Just Cause 3
>The Witcher 3
All of these are pretty broken on consoles and regularly drop to 20 FPS.
