Board 8 > What are the benefits to having a Desktop vs a Laptop?

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Man I literally do not play video games enough to even think about doing a PC gaming rig.

My max is like 800-900$ though.
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that's, by default, an upper-mid-range gaming PC.
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btw if you're interested in building (Which like everybody else, I definitely recommend if you're going destkop)

http://www.logicalincrements.com/
https://pcpartpicker.com/

these two sites are pretty useful for letting you look at parts and spitball ideas without getting completely disorganized
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digiiiiiiiii posted...

that's, by default, an upper-mid-range gaming PC.

Now I'm thinking a little less because

the DAP that I found and am smitten by is almost $1,000 ughhhh
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ExThaNemesis posted...

Man I literally do not play video games enough to even think about doing a PC gaming rig.

My max is like 800-900$ though.

If this is true, just stick with a laptop.

For real, just wait until Black Friday and pick up a Surfacebook or Surface Pro 4. They can play some decent games, and they're incredibly sleek, portable, and powerful devices.
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ExThaNemesis posted...

Man I literally do not play video games enough to even think about doing a PC gaming rig.

My max is like 800-900$ though.

That can get a decent PC gaming rig tho <_<
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In case you're wondering this is what my set up looks right now



Like current cost of parts is probably around 2500 (not counting the headphones). But if you slightly downgrade the cpu you can save $100, and if you forgo liquid cooling another $80. You can budget case to save $80. And lower the PSU cost to save another $50. You can also not have two expensive monitors and have one good one (probably going to save you around $400 compared to my set up).

Then you can reduce speaking cost if you want to save maybe $100 dollars, reduce MoBo to a normal one and save like $50. Finally, I would say reduce to like a GTX 1070 but bitcoin miners are driving up prices and it seems silly to buy one of the mid range type cards like that.But you can shave off like a $1,000 off of my build and still have a very good machine simply by not buying enthusiast parts and you still keep the 1080. If you don't need a monitor you can probably build the system for like 1200 or so.
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So I've decided to go with a Desktop for Black Friday.

And I'll do a new Laptop come summer time for my Birthday.

I am going to be focusing on hard drive space and ram. I could probably do with a new monitor but I hate to replace something that still works so well for me.
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Desktops are better.
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I must be the only desktop person here who's never used two monitors.
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azuarc posted...

I must be the only desktop person here who's never used two monitors.

You are missing the fuck out

Please correct this egregious error ASAP and then you'll wonder how you ever did without
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azuarc posted...

I must be the only desktop person here who's never used two monitors.

I only use one.
It's a 50 inch TV though where there is no real feasible good way to have more.
For a while I had a small second monitor, but it's not plugged in ATM, it was only moderately helpful anyway.

I have thought about getting 2 more 50 inch TV's though....
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https://www.head-fi.org/showcase/fiio-x7-mark-ii-smart-hi-res-music-player.22522/reviews#review-19051

So my iPod is slowly dying on me. I've had that thing for about eight years now. It's been an amazing, wonderful music player that I've traveled the world with.

Look at that beautiful thing I've decided to replace it with.
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