PC owners fear Modern Warfare 2 is a console port

Originally Posted by EL_CAD

I never buy top of the line and usually just upgrade the video card two years later, which is about the time I am ready to do a fresh install of everything. The only things I buy top of the line are the motherboards and PSU. A good PSU can be used for a few generations of PCs.

I think now motherboards should be bought at the mainstream level too. I bought all my parts at the high end of the spectrum and regretted it afterwards when my mb did not support Nehalem, I had to switch. I suspect that moherboards in the near future would have USB 3.0 sockets so I would recommend a mainstream mb now. The thing I regretted most was the fact that I bought a mb with DDR3 support only and was forced to shell out £430 for 8GB of DDR3 ram only to find it dropped in price to around £200 in less than 4 months. Buying mainstream everything is a good policy it's very easy to get carried away on a PC build and you can save yourself a great deal if you stick to this policy. you can even afford to upgrade more regularly if you wish. I think the only thing that is sort-of futureproof is a good modular PSU and case, then just sit and pray that the GPU manufacturers don't decide to build a 3 foot long card which requires another 6 or 8pin cable.

Originally Posted by Cue

I think now motherboards should be bought at the mainstream level too. I bought all my parts at the high end of the spectrum and regretted it afterwards when my mb did not support Nehalem, I had to switch. I suspect that moherboards in the near future would have USB 3.0 sockets so I would recommend a mainstream mb now. The thing I regretted most was the fact that I bought a mb with DDR3 support only and was forced to shell out £430 for 8GB of DDR3 ram only to find it dropped in price to around £200 in less than 4 months. Buying mainstream everything is a good policy it's very easy to get carried away on a PC build and you can save yourself a great deal if you stick to this policy. you can even afford to upgrade more regularly if you wish. I think the only thing that is sort-of futureproof is a good modular PSU and case, then just sit and pray that the GPU manufacturers don't decide to build a 3 foot long card which requires another 6 or 8pin cable.

Well with motherboards. you do have a point. There is a risk of them being to be bleeding edge. People have been burned by memory trends and I have been careful when making memory choices. Mostly because I'm cheap and mainly I build or buy AMD systems. AMD has not been as memory upgrade inclined as Intel. AMDs most always use the most mainstream memory and are much more affordable.

with AMD u can also upgrade ur CPU only more often..
I bought an AM2+ mobo, now with bios updates it's compatible with latest AM3 cpus..

As a PC gamer my money will stay in my pocket...........PC live is not my cup of tea......the whole idea of being force fed Matching making is sickening......they can keep the game i will play Left 4 Dead 2.

Originally Posted by barran21

As a PC gamer my money will stay in my pocket...........PC live is not my cup of tea......the whole idea of being force fed Matching making is sickening......they can keep the game i will play Left 4 Dead 2.

See you in L4D2. I've been playing the demo a bit to much this weekend already. Oh to play the "new game" I did not need to upgrade anything, it even worked great on my friends Socket A machine with my old AGP ATI HD2600pro that I gave him last year.

Originally Posted by mhz

with AMD u can also upgrade ur CPU only more often..
I bought an AM2+ mobo, now with bios updates it's compatible with latest AM3 cpus..

Yup, that's the main reason why I dropped intel. Niece prices for amds also helps, sure some can be pricey, but I don't need anything that powerful to check email, browse the web, see a movie, and hell play a game every once in a blue moon.