Home and Office PC's vs Media Center PC's vs Gaming PC's

Just a quick review over Home and Office PC's, Media Center PC's, and Gaming PC's. People are expecting too much out of modern computers so I think I should help clarify what a computer is built for.

If a computer is built for office use, it's built for office use. If a computer is built for watching movies and burning DVD's, it's built for watching movies and burning DVD's. If a computer is built for playing games, then it's built to play games.

It's not that difficult to classify if a computer is built for the office, watching movies, or playing games. People are just making it harder for themselves by assuming every computer must come with the most powerful hardware up to date, which is NOT REQUIRED for 90% of the population anyways.

Every person has their own preference, whether it's working in an office, watching movies, listening to music, or just playing games. There is a computer built just for you. Every computer is built DIFFERENTLY and must be respected for what they are built to do.

Thinking that a computer is "crap" and "get you nowhere" is for the ignorance.

*I'm a pianist, not a vocalist. There's a difference you see?



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[KDBroadCastings]

I have a Xbox and use it everyday, also have lots of friends, have rather good clan too. But, I'm not sure I want to spend all my money on a custom build. What should I do?

[vangstaz]

@KDBroadCastings It really depends on what you want to do basically. If you just want to surf the net, a very basic PC around $350 should be perfect. If you're looking into media center, mainstream and casual gaming, you can still pick up an off the shelf PC for about $500 that has a dedicated GPU. If you want high end gaming or video editing, then you're looking for a PC that is close or over $1000. My advice is to build a PC yourself so that you have total control of what goes into it.

[megamindstorm101]

i love how this video was made yesterday but you put things like a dual core picture for the gaming pc. its old :P you should have at least put an i5 or something :P

i still say homebuilt is the best. :) troubleshooting is half the fun :) when a new game comes out I actually have fun getting it to work first :P not too hard on my computer i usually have fun trying to play old games :)

[vangstaz]

@megamindstorm101 Well most games even today don't utilize all four cores of a quad-core CPU so a dual-core CPU will still make a great gaming CPU if someone is on a tight budget... like me haha. And it's obvious that a gaming PC is capable of doing everything an office PC or a Media Center PC can so I didn't include that in the video.

[megamindstorm101]

@vangstaz thats true. i just idk i thought it was funny :P i was expecting to see some like i7 extreme and a asus ares and stuff but yeah :) though its kinda changing for some of those hardcore gamers that want to play everything. the system requirements for Metro 2033 recommends a quad core :P

something though about i5s and i7s that make it a great processor for games even though its a quad core is turbo boost. if you only use 2 cores it will essentially overclock those 2 cores for the game.

[megamindstorm101]

oh and gaming computers can usually do everything and they are the most expensive :)