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Read more.So says a new report by industry market analysts Jon Peddie Research.
There you go. Nuff said.For PC gamers the 'good enough' mindset behind portable devices and tablets just doesn't cut the mustard.
As an enthusiast or geek, if you like (it isn't an insult IMO), working on my PC is as satisfying as using it. This is a hobby/interest/passion/obsession.
I used to be like that, but now I have a 'good enough' attitude, mainly because I don't have time to play games any more. I'm still a smart consumer - when I bought my laptop I got the cheaper 2GB option and paid far less to stick 8GB in it than if I'd bought the 4GB version from the retailer. And then I dropped an SSD into it. But now it's good enough, and will stay good enough until it breaks (or Half-Life 3 comes out - that's my weak spot).
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So, you're never upgrading then?Originally Posted by Steve
Aye. *sob*
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Is it just me or do most of these studies just tell us what most of us already know?
Old puter - still good enuff till I save some pennies!
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Well, there's intuition, or hypothesis, and then there's analysis of market data to back it up. If you're a company, having evidence to substantiate these things makes decision making a little less risky, perhaps...
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Surely there will always be a market for enthusiasts, as a designer I can't imagine have to settle for a pre-built system. Enthusiast cases have all the support I need for drives and peripherals that a Dell is never gonna have!
+1 to Spreadie and SciFi.
Re: ThermalDroid - I've had prebuilt sometimes before (not recently mind). They tended to last a couple of months at most before I give in to the urge to add/upgrade something, often finding that the way the thing was built makes it particularly finicky to upgrade without paying the system builder an extortionate amount, or doing some homework/sourcing non-mainstream parts. Self builds I usually spend the first 6 months tweaking but without any significant component changes. Thereafter it's rolling upgrades 'til the next.
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Is it 2014 already??
Possibly, but it's still heartening reading for us PC gamers nonetheless.
Same here, along with Elite: Dangerous (aka Elite 4). I'm holding off upgrading my GTX480 until at least one of those is released in 2014.
so this makes AMDs comments http://hexus.net/tech/news/graphics/...eached-whales/ last week more interesting doesn't it. This report suggests the gaming market is stable, so NVidia/AMD GPU demand will hold.
AMD CPUs are targetting the "good enough" market, which is the one in decline - though presumably not terminally, provided they can hold enough market share... which I guess was their point to start with
Agree with this, as gaming is pretty much the sole reason why I have a Windows desktop. Everything else I can do well enough with a Linux laptop. Tablets fit into my "computing landscape" for quite a few things - but I've failed to find a tablet-based email client that compares to a desktop one ... even Outlook!Not only is gaming becoming an even more important purchasing influence of PC sales due to the offloading of more basic functionality to smart devices, but we are forecasting growth in the most expensive discrete graphics products
Going forward I'm too onery to be much interested in "off the shelf" PC's - even the ones like 3XS aimed at "enthusiasts". So I'm going to continue to build my own PC, and rebuild it at intervals. Next task being a cpu/mobo replacement that'll probably result in me having to downgrade to Windows 8 at the sametime.
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I had a good enough attitude with my four year old i7 950, until it unceremoniously blew up last week. Then I got a credit card and a 4770K and now I have no money but my PC is a sexy muscle-beast that's slippery fast like greased up hams. Also starting to question whether my HDD is good enough or needs to be torn out for an SSD or twelve.
Going to agree with you that the AMD CPU's are in the dangerous "good enough" market segment - perhaps they've been trading on "value for money" too long? I personally have been pretty loyal to AMD for my CPU's down the years, but a jump to Haswell looks likely for the better gaming performance it'd deliver.
On the other hand the APU's might be a more stable proposition. Sure they're less powerful on the CPU side than price-equivalent kit from Intel, but better graphical abilities might make up for that. So you buy an APU-equipped PC, game with it in "stock" config and then upgrade to a discrete GPU when you can afford it and/or when you feel the need.
If I was AMD, I'd be trying to deliver some products that put the lie to the oft-repeated mantra that "Intel processors are better for gaming".
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