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Geek Culture / What would be considered the average computer?

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Slayer267
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Posted: 30th Jul 2011 05:23 Edited at: 30th Jul 2011 05:33
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What would be considered the average joe computer? Also how many polys can it handle in fpsc?

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DevilLiger
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Posted: 30th Jul 2011 09:58
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the average computer shall cost no more than 1,000 usd worth or is that just me?

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Lemonade
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Depends on the target market. The average gamer's computer is much better than the average Joe's computer. I would say....$350? just guessing.

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Posted: 30th Jul 2011 11:35
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An average computer is a very subjective question. If you want to store data, then you want massive amounts of fast-access disk space but possibly a low res screen and minimal 3D capabilities. If you're a journalist then you a high-speed and reliable network card to access your data sources, and reliable rather than fast or large disks.

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I would say the vast majority of people have low powered laptops. This is only based on what I personally see. Everytime I go round people's houses, everyone has a laptop, and they're all fairly low spec. So as far as FPSC goes, not many polys!

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Wolf
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Most people I know, male or female, have pretty good systems. Usually dual core and and 2 gigabyte ram.



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Well, I'll briefly go over what I have:
A powerful and expensive as hell gaming/work desktop
A meh Dell desktop.
The worst laptop I've ever laid my eyes on
And a large clunky server.


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Posted: 30th Jul 2011 15:18
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Now average all that up and you come up with......

Even Google, in all it's vast and awesome knowledge does not know what an "average" Joe computer is. Always err on the side of old and slow and you'll gain the largest available market. Adjust upwards to find the gaming market. Still, we have no idea what an average might be.

If I had to take an educated guess, I'd take the new technology of 2-3 years ago and use that as a benchmark for current available systems - notebooks not included. Notebooks seem to have topped out on performance, dropped out of the speed race, and gone the way of affordability. Don't include them in the mix for FPSC games.

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Posted: 30th Jul 2011 21:29
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So the average Steam users system is....

Intel 2.3Ghz to 2.69Ghz Dual Core
4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 w/1024 MB
250 GB to 499 GB HDD

I don't think that's the "average Joe" computer, especially around here but it's a starting point.

Thanks Neuro Fuzzy.

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Quote: "So the average Steam users system is....

Intel 2.3Ghz to 2.69Ghz Dual Core
4GB RAM
NVIDIA GeForce 9800 w/1024 MB
250 GB to 499 GB HDD

I don't think that's the "average Joe" computer, especially around here but it's a starting point. "

Definitely not the average joe computer... Those are average gamer computers.

An average joe computer would probably be around 2-3 RAM, a stock video card, a few hundred gig hard drive and maybe around a 2.4 dual core processor? That's just what I usually see most people have that aren't gamers.

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Posted: 30th Jul 2011 23:36 Edited at: 30th Jul 2011 23:36
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I've got two computers, an 'average joe' computer. The other is my death star, mega overpowered.

Average Joe:

Intel Core 2 Due 2.4 Ghz
2gb DDR3 Corsair... something
Asus PK5 Premium
Nvidia 8800 GT (BEST VALUE FOR MONEY GRAPHICS CARD OF ALL TIME IN MY OPINION)
1TB Samsung Spinpoint

Death Star:

Intel i7 980x @ 4.1 Ghz
12gb G.Skill Trident 2000mhz X.M.P
Asus Rampage III X58 Motherboard
2x Nvidia Palit GTX580
RAID 0 Western Digital Blacks 1TB
2TB Western Digital FRAPs drive
160GB Intel G2 SSD

This thing is future proofed for life...
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Posted: 31st Jul 2011 01:15 Edited at: 31st Jul 2011 01:21
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Quote: "This thing is future proofed for life... "


I remember thinking that about my old machine with a ridiculous 192 meg of ram and a 32 meg video card
it was a celeron 700 but could be upgraded to a whopping p3 1ghz
It had a x4 write,x1 rewrite burner drive and (they called me mad) 3 hard drives topping out at a massive 12 gig of hard drive space.

it could handle halflife on full graphics - it was a beast.

edit: but yeah, your machine really is a monster. I want one. /edit

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AMD 2.1Ghz Dual,
NVidia Geforce 9600GT,
4.5GB RAM,
320Gb HDD,

And my friends consider this to be a high-powered gaming PC. It's five years old, apart from the PSU, GPU and some of the RAM. Still takes more-or-less anything I throw at it.

My other rig is a standard Netbook. Does the jobs I ask of it fine, and I expect no more. I quite like the lack of pretense and simplicity, my friends have "gaming laptops." They lag playing TF2 on medium and one of their's dumps out incredible amounts of heat.

Average Joe isn't what you should be aiming for. You're making a game? Make it for gamers. Average Joe won't download a multi-gigabyte file to play a game, Average Joe is too scared of viruses normally.

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I bought mine quite a while ago really.
Around 4 years ago. And it most definitely takes everything I give it.

Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz,
Nvidia Geforce 9800gt,
8GB Ram,
4TB HDD,

Best money ever spent. I've taken it from my parents house, to my Dorm room, and soon to my flat.

Never has failed me.

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Quote: " it most definitely takes everything I give it."


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Slayer267
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Posted: 31st Jul 2011 18:28
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Quote: "Intel Core 2 Quad 2.4Ghz,
Nvidia Geforce 9800gt,
8GB Ram,
4TB HDD,

Best money ever spent. I've taken it from my parents house, to my Dorm room, and soon to my flat.

Never has failed me.
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Can I have it


Here are my specs...

OS - Windows 7

DirectX - DX11

RAM - 4GB

HDD - 500GB + 1tb removable hdd = 1.5tb

Graphics Card - Mobil Intel(R) Series Express Chipset Family - Handles about 60000-100000 polys in fpsc. When at those levels the fps would be around 10-20

Display Mode - 1600x900 (60Hz) (32bit)



The only times my computer failed me is because it over heats or because roblox decides to crash me (Deleted it!!!)

So thats it!

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Posted: 31st Jul 2011 23:45
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Quote: "with a ridiculous 192 meg of ram"


Is that a 3x64MB configuration... epic


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Quote: "Nvidia 8800 GT (BEST VALUE FOR MONEY GRAPHICS CARD OF ALL TIME IN MY OPINION)"


I'mma let you finish...

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Posted: 1st Aug 2011 00:56 Edited at: 1st Aug 2011 00:58
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Bah, someone beat me to the link about the Steam hardware survey. Another thing to look at is the recommended specs for something like World of Warcraft. That an example of a game they try to make very accessible.

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Quote: "Most people I know, male or female, have pretty good systems. Usually dual core and and 2 gigabyte ram.
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this is my system with both of them. not exactly great?

1.6ghz dual core
2GB RAM
Radeon X1300 Pro


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I used to have that card...three cards ago. XD

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Slayer267
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Posted: 1st Aug 2011 07:22 Edited at: 1st Aug 2011 07:38
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Anyone rich enough to buy me a new computer? A good one

Lol... Idk what you guys would rate my comp... But yeah it would say thumbs down :o

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[edit] Meh I'll probably get slapped eventually lol. Not even worth it.

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Quote: "what you guys would rate my comp"


Erm, OK.

OS - Windows 7
Good start here...

CPU - ???
Err... how does this run?

DirectX - DX11
Meaningless without a supporting GPU

RAM - 4GB
Above average

HDD - 500GB + 1tb removable hdd = 1.5tb
Plenty of room

Graphics Card - Mobil Intel(R) Series Express Chipset Family - Handles about 60000-100000 polys in fpsc. When at those levels the fps would be around 10-20
Goo...! Wait a minute, that's not a graphic card. Suggest getting one

Display Mode - 1600x900 (60Hz) (32bit)
Good size

You've got a base to work from there. Just save your pennies and make small updates.

I was thinking of upgrading my Death Star. New name: YGTBFKM (You've Got To Be F.... I think you can work it out by now)

Intel i7 980x @ 4.1 Ghz
12gb G.Skill Trident 2000mhz X.M.P
Asus Rampage III X58 Motherboard
2x Nvidia Palit GTX580
RAID 0 Western Digital Blacks 1TB
2TB Western Digital FRAPs drive
160GB Intel G2 SSD

Swapping out the 2x Nvidia Palit GTX580 for: 2x GTX 590 3072MB GDDR5 Quad SLI

2 of those cards is over a grand. But with hard earned money to burn (missed my 2 week trip to Ibiza this year), I think a tiny upgrade is in order...

Ok, I'm kidding, sort of... I'm not rich, but when you live with the amount of people I do (15), rent an bills comes to pretty much nothing. All my money goes to holidays and gadgets, when off work that is... which is never.
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Awwwwwwwwwwwwww :\ I got pwned :o

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