You have to put things in context...
Any PC built with the intention of playing games first and foremost makes it a gaming rig. Right now, very few, if any, games require a 6 core CPU to keep things going, and socket 1155 is the best option as far as price vs performance. To answer your question........you have to realize your system to many would be an ultra-high uber gaming rig. Without some sort of cap, one can't rate a machine. Initially, I'd say a mid-high range system because there ARE faster/better performing video cards out there. Take it with a grain of salt because I've yet to install a video card in my system! lol
While we may say "Any PC built with the intention of playing games first and foremost makes it a gaming rig" sounds good. Let’s get real here…
I could say my Asus Zenbook with its 3rd gen Intel i7 with its HD 4000 integrated graphics, 4gig of RAM and a 256 SSD drive is capable of playing games, any serious gamer (including me), and any serious vendor selling the laptop, will tell you it’s not a gaming PC. And that would be true. So, as I said, let’s get real here.
With that, I think people who really aren’t gamers aren’t going to get what smarteyeball is asking. Just as there are those who aren’t into overclocking, and thus can’t really know what it’s like to push a system beyond stated specs. You have to be in it to understand it. Same with gaming.
That said, if you’re a true gamer, than you know a gaming rig is built to extract every bit of performance and visuals out of your most demanding games. No, games like Bioshock Infinite do not count. We’re talking games like COD, Crysis, Skyrim, Metro.
These games are also designed to push high performance systems to the limit. High performance systems are built to extract the absolute best from games like these without hiccup.
In this case, my Asus Zenbook need not apply!
Sure you may be able to play some of these games with the Zenbook, but again, let’s get real. I don’t want lowered visuals and low or slow performance; I want high end eye candy with the best performance the game has to offer. True gamers like smarteyeball, and others, including myself, understand this. This is why we want high performance machines like the one smarteyeball has.
As to what constitutes a “high performance” system – while there are certainly newer and more powerful systems out there, we need to look at the here and now with regards to the games out right now. In this case, a system like what smarteyeball shows in his system specs would be considered a high performance system because it’s capable of playing any game currently out (or soon to be released) at extremely high settings without loss of performance or eye candy.
You also have to put things in perspective to the hardware available at time the system was built as well that available today. In this case, those parts aren’t bottom of the heap, and to build a comparable system today would still cost a mint.
So, with all that, considering the question yes… a system like smarteyeball’s would be considered high end.
My two cents.
So I consider it Med High
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lol.
