Titanfall

[ClevelandOwnz]

Can I borrow your pc for a few years? At this point my only slow down to building a pc is waiting for the nvidia 800 series of gpus to come out so the 700 series is cheaper. I want to sli two 780s but theres no way I can afford that right now.

Haha, It's such an expensive hobby. I just put like 200 dollars of my paycheck every month off to the side to save up for stuff also use Amazon Store Card, where I don't pay stuff off for a year... Once I get done with my next project... I'm going to take a 4 year break haha.

Basically I will be transferring my 3770k @ 4.4GHz, both 780ti's, my Corsair Dominator 16GB (1600) into a Silverstone FT03 -- make it a custom loop -- Turn it into my steam machine. It'll look a lot like this...

Then for the 900d .. make the transition to Maxwell (880ti -- because you know they will come out with them) and Broadwell --

Then thats it, 4 years no more building. I've put way too much money into my stuff the last 3 years haha.

I don't just use it for gaming, lots of graphic design and basic work crap.

 

[Chris]

It's possible, but you really have to want to spend that kind of money. I spent about 1400 for mine a year ago (32 inch HDTV monitor included) and I'm still playing everything on all high. My computer laughs at my attempts to tax it.

I mean...no shit, you can spend three grand. If you really want to. :chuckles:

 

[Mdog1]

Haha, It's such an expensive hobby. I just put like 200 dollars of my paycheck every month off to the side to save up for stuff also use Amazon Store Card, where I don't pay stuff off for a year... Once I get done with my next project... I'm going to take a 4 year break haha.

Basically I will be transferring my 3770k @ 4.4GHz, both 780ti's, my Corsair Dominator 16GB (1600) into a Silverstone FT03 -- make it a custom loop -- Turn it into my steam machine. It'll look a lot like this...

Then for the 900d .. make the transition to Maxwell (880ti -- because you know they will come out with them) and Broadwell --

Then thats it, 4 years no more building. I've put way too much money into my stuff the last 3 years haha.

I don't just use it for gaming, lots of graphic design and basic work crap.

Speaking of steam machines, they kind of have my interest. If they are upgradable that is. I like the idea of having a pc the size of a console rather than a tower. Not into laptop gaming other than flash stuff for time killers.

My biggest problem with the steam machines is the os. Most games require windows so basically by getting steam os you cut yourself off from thousands of games from years past.

I really want to play the witcher series, but I hate the idea of starting from the newest one whenever it drops, and I don't believe in buying a console for one game. Got burnt by that a few times (fable 3, twilight princess, skyward sword). I realize those two consoles have other games but in nintendos case I don't like many of their games other than zelda. For ms I am not an fps fan so basically I bought a 360 for fable and hated the damn game so I traded both in for about 100 bucks... Should have kept the 360 and gotten to play some other games I'm jealous of like titanfall for example, but damn that pissed me off.

Anyways back to computers because I got off course there. Steam machines would fill a niche for me that computers don't in that they would be very small like consoles and likely quiet aswell. Both very attractive qualities imo. I don't have to worry about a moniter because I won't be playing any twitch shooters or anything like that on a pc, and I'll have a sony 70r550a in a couple weeks so that would do me for sure. I just want a setup that I won't have to upgrade for at least a year and a half and that can run games at or over 60fps at 1080p (tv is 120hz so getting 120hz would be awesome). I figure it'll cost me about 1400 at this point, which is fine, but if I wait a few months for the 8xx series it could drop the price 200 or more.

 

[Jack Brickman]

Speaking of steam machines, they kind of have my interest. If they are upgradable that is. I like the idea of having a pc the size of a console rather than a tower. Not into laptop gaming other than flash stuff for time killers.

My biggest problem with the steam machines is the os. Most games require windows so basically by getting steam os you cut yourself off from thousands of games from years past.

I really want to play the witcher series, but I hate the idea of starting from the newest one whenever it drops, and I don't believe in buying a console for one game. Got burnt by that a few times (fable 3, twilight princess, skyward sword). I realize those two consoles have other games but in nintendos case I don't like many of their games other than zelda. For ms I am not an fps fan so basically I bought a 360 for fable and hated the damn game so I traded both in for about 100 bucks... Should have kept the 360 and gotten to play some other games I'm jealous of like titanfall for example, but damn that pissed me off.

Anyways back to computers because I got off course there. Steam machines would fill a niche for me that computers don't in that they would be very small like consoles and likely quiet aswell. Both very attractive qualities imo. I don't have to worry about a moniter because I won't be playing any twitch shooters or anything like that on a pc, and I'll have a sony 70r550a in a couple weeks so that would do me for sure. I just want a setup that I won't have to upgrade for at least a year and a half and that can run games at or over 60fps at 1080p (tv is 120hz so getting 120hz would be awesome). I figure it'll cost me about 1400 at this point, which is fine, but if I wait a few months for the 8xx series it could drop the price 200 or more.

I'm fairly certain most Steam machines will have a customizable OS. After all, they are basically just custom-built computers. They will come with Steam OS as the default, to be sure, but there's nothing to stop you from installing Windows on (probably) most of them.

Also, some will be more upgradable than others. Just do your research before buying one and you should be set.

 

[Mdog1]

I'm fairly certain most Steam machines will have a customizable OS. After all, they are basically just custom-built computers. They will come with Steam OS as the default, to be sure, but there's nothing to stop you from installing Windows on (probably) most of them.

Also, some will be more upgradable than others. Just do your research before buying one and you should be set.

Yeah, I was looking at the alienware one, but when I learned it wasn't upgradable I put the breaks on. I don't know where I'll be able to buy one. If the have them at eb or bestbuy then obviously there, but I don’t know if they will or not. The new nvidia maxwell gpus bring a really interesting fold to the steam machines because they draw such little power. Could be interesting.

 

[CornerThree]

Anyone have further impressions now that it's out? Was thinking about getting the XB1 titan fall bundle.

 

[Man Called X]

Anyone have further impressions now that it's out? Was thinking about getting the XB1 titan fall bundle.

It's not bad. I can never get a decent connection to the servers like EVER. No one else ever seems to have any problems, but even sporting a 50 ms ping to the server, I show as 1 bar and experience a ton of lag.