Re: Strategy on the Decline

Justisaur <justisaur@yahoo.com> looked up from reading the entrails of
the porn spammer to utter  "The Augury is good, the signs say:

On 5/25/2024 4:28 PM, Lane Larson wrote:
>

It's a horror story.  Say I come up with $3200 to buy the top end
Alienware.  I bet I'd still have to deal with lots of overheating.  What
I'd like to do is break my computer over someone's head and get in the
news, where it says that my computer was too hot and drove me mad.  I
was appalled when I got this one home and Pathfinder: Wrath of the
Righteous was used to fry an egg.  When is this shit going to stop?  I
bought too many computers in the 90s just to keep up.  My parents lost
some faith in me when I liquidated my stock portfolio to buy just
another computer.  And it's still happening!

>
Don't buy pre-made gaming computers.  You end up paying 2x (or 3x if
you're talking $3200!) what you would for a better optimized system with
cooling that works. 

This depends.  
A local computer shop offers prebuilts that are not bad value at all.
The caveat is they have almost no upgrade path except swapping out the
video card, since they tend to have lower end motherboards and have all
the ram slots filled already.

You are correct if it's brand name junk like Alienware or any other big
name, you get charged $500-1000 just to have their name on it.

Xocyll