GoneWacko’s Blog

Operation “New Computer”, Phase 1

Recently I went ahead and used the Tweakers.net Pricewatch (which is a database of the hardware prices at many many Dutch/Belgian (web)stores) to compile a new computer. What I basically did was check to see how much money the system that was being recommended by the PC gaming magazine I read (PCGameplay) as a High-end gaming machine.

The price is around 2000 euros, which means I can just about afford it now!

Of course, one has to note that I might go with smaller-but-faster hard drives, because I already have 920 GB of storage on my linux machine anyway, and that it currently features 4 GB of RAM which is nice and certainly an end goal, but not something that I would want to buy right away. The 300+ euros I save by going with 2 GB of RAM for now could be used to buy a better processor (Quad core as I’m currently envisioning it), amongst other options.

I’m not too good with hardware to be honest, I can tell when something is good, but for example I don’t know much about the tradeoffs between two high end pieces of hardware.
Luckily I have friends who know more about it.

Of course this price does not include the PSU, case, DVD-ROM drive(s), etc. But that shouldn’t cost too much more.
I’m also still wanting a good sound card (as in 7.1 surround sound would be nice) and a new monitor, but there’s less of a priority on those. I just hope I can find a job as a programmer sometime in the not-to-far-away future so I can make some cash