What are your thoughts on Purchasing now?

[oldfaq]

hey,
I purchased my new rig a few months back, and I was proud of teh purchase, but I see now a lot of people are buying their PC only for "power" whereas a lot of others want speed, Im guessing a lot want "bragging" rights, but I don't see the point in purchasing much right now for various reasons.

First, ATi and Nvidia, just pathetic, they are both releasing gfx cards that aren't ready for the public and have buggy drivers? why? why wouldn't the consumer see this? I don't understand buying a new X800XT 256mb, it's an amazing gfx card, but look at the price, and the bugs?

Second, Major technology change, I was thinking of waiting and getting PCI-X but then I decided not to, since I Want to find out first which prevails, PCI-X, or PCI-E, and also the change to 64-bit, Im running an Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0ghz, I got it for agreat price, the new processors are amazing, I have no troubles in buying one except that I bought a 739 socket X_X but has 1mb of cache I think, so if I upgrade I must buy new mobo, RAM is at a good tie to buy, seems extremely cheap!

Harddrives! so many harddrives! people buy so many harddrives? why? do you really need 200 gbs of space? I am using raid only reason I have dual 120gb hdd, but I don't see the purpose of a regular user buying 200gb of HDd? why? I know its nice to have it and its good having a shitload of extra space for anything, but the price is quite high on some HDDs, others are great prices

I just want to know why people buy "pimped" out sounding rigs?
i know it's fun having the bragging rights, but with te way Nvidia and ATi are going, is it worth spending thousands of dollars on a rig, when you are going to be getting a faulty system? I don't mean the mobo or anything, gfx cards are my main concern, the prices for the new x800's is sick, but why pay the price? for some reason whatever ATi or Nvidia creates people buy! even when they cheat on the benchmakrs X_X???

do you have a really deep pocket? or your parents do? so you get a new pc every year? well a year is a long time in the pc industry! lol, well I just want your thoguhts on this, I know its my opinion and you don't have to agree with ti, but I want to hear from people that have bought these new systems, thanks
Oldfaq

 

[poseyjmac]

First, ATi and Nvidia, just pathetic, they are both releasing gfx cards that aren't ready for the public and have buggy drivers? why? why wouldn't the consumer see this? I don't understand buying a new X800XT 256mb, it's an amazing gfx card, but look at the price, and the bugs?

I don't know what bugs you are talking about. ATI's drivers are as good as they have ever been, same with nvidia. would you care to elaborate with proof with game, driver revision?

Second, Major technology change, I was thinking of waiting and getting PCI-X but then I decided not to, since I Want to find out first which prevails, PCI-X, or PCI-E, and also the change to 64-bit, Im running an Athlon 64 3200+ 2.0ghz, I got it for agreat price, the new processors are amazing, I have no troubles in buying one except that I bought a 739 socket X_X but has 1mb of cache I think, so if I upgrade I must buy new mobo, RAM is at a good tie to buy, seems extremely cheap!

i can't tell if you are complaining or happy in this paragraph :smoking:

Harddrives! so many harddrives! people buy so many harddrives? why? do you really need 200 gbs of space? I am using raid only reason I have dual 120gb hdd, but I don't see the purpose of a regular user buying 200gb of HDd? why? I know its nice to have it and its good having a shitload of extra space for anything, but the price is quite high on some HDDs, others are great prices

because of pirated software and music of course! this is the primary reason. i have a 40 gig hd, it holds many games and the few apps i have. but for someone who constantly downloads movies/music/games/huge apps a large harddrive is a must. they should have a 1 terabyte harddrive and call it the 'pirate' edition.

I just want to know why people buy "pimped" out sounding rigs?
i know it's fun having the bragging rights, but with te way Nvidia and ATi are going, is it worth spending thousands of dollars on a rig, when you are going to be getting a faulty system? I don't mean the mobo or anything, gfx cards are my main concern, the prices for the new x800's is sick, but why pay the price? for some reason whatever ATi or Nvidia creates people buy! even when they cheat on the benchmakrs X_X???

i don't have any problems with running my x800xt. no game has compatibility problems. thats just me, but these new video cards are nowhere near faulty, they are actually the biggest leap in video cards since the 9700pro. i didn't buy my video card for bragging rights, i bought it so i could run at high resolutions and get great framerates. the reason its in my sig is in case someone needs to know if im reporting a problem, or maybe someone has the same one and isn't getting the same results or whatever. again, just one person's experience.

do you have a really deep pocket? or your parents do? so you get a new pc every year? well a year is a long time in the pc industry! lol, well I just want your thoguhts on this, I know its my opinion and you don't have to agree with ti, but I want to hear from people that have bought these new systems, thanks
Oldfaq

i do currently. i get an upgrade whenever i feel im not getting the performance i want. but yea thats life, some people are well-off, others aren't. but compared to cars, and other hobbies, pc parts are cheap, and if someone really wants a high-end pc, with a little bit of saving and hardwork, it can be attained.

 

[RABIES]

I agree completely. However just to clear one thing up, the rig itself is not faulty (video card wise). Those people simply just have to wait until the drivers become more stable than they are.

Being that both companies seem to be pimping these new cards with some new technology they are going to run into issues naturally with compatability and drivers. Which is why I am waiting for the next gen of video cards simply for the fact of drivers and overall reliability. Like a new CPU, let em mess the first one up and the second will be better :E

Also about your benchmark comment: no video card should be benchmarked ever until they can get stable working drivers. It is not necisarily cheating for a lack of better words, but it's kinda like skipping grades (the score doesn't actually count against you). In this case IIRC, nVidia ran a benchmark where the card did not render a few effects at all or properly, thus increasing its framerate drastically. The drivers now are slightly stable IMO, but I still don't trust either ATi's or nVidia's new cards and their drivers

 

[Asus]

I don't see drivers as being unstable but there has been a lot more attention being drawn towards reviewing drivers in all games with much more detailed analizise than in the past.

Everything is changing much quicker and advancing farther. People are having a harder time finding the right time to stick their foot in the door and buy.

Personally, I upgrade when either my games seem to run a little slow for my tastes or I can come out ahead before the value of my current parts drop too much in price for selling.