Is This Build Too Expensive for What it is ?

VIPChristian

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Hi All,

Just checking with the pro's on this little gaming box: The Spark from Main Gear.
Would Like to hear what You Think of It.
Thank You
VIPChristian

QTY SKU Description
Price
1 desktop-spark-amd MAINGEAR Spark
749.00

Customizations:
Special Promotions: $150 Instant Savings - Limited time only! (discount-150)
$-150.00
Special Promotions: [Radeon R9 290 or higher REQUIRED!] Free Game! Civilization Earth (free-radeon-civ)
Special Promotions: Radeon Never Settle Forever Ruby Award (Your choice of Four FREE games!) including: Sniper Elite 3 , Thief, Hitman Absolution, Tomb Raider, and more. AMD GPU Required. (free-radeon-ruby)
Chassis: Spark Ultra Compact Small Form Factor Chassis (case-spark)
Included
Processor: AMD A8-5557M APU with Radeon™ HD 8550G 2.1GHz/3.1GHz Turbo (cpu-amd-A8-5557M)
Included
Memory: 8GB Corsair® DDR3-1600 1.35V (2x4GB, SODIMMs) (mem-corsair-CMSO8GX3M2C1600C11)
$67.00
Graphics and GPGPU Accelerator: AMD Radeon R9 M275X with GCN Architecture (gpu-amd-r9m275x)
Included
mSATA Drive: 128GB mSATA SSD [500MB/s Reads] (ssd-128-mSATA)
$110.00
2.5" Hard Drive: 500GB WD Blue 5400 RPM SATA 2.5" (hdd-WDBlue-500GB)
Included
Audio: Realtek® ALC269- 7.1 Channel High Definition Surround Sound (audio-integrated-spark)
Included
Ethernet Adapter: On-board Gigabit Ethernet (nic-onboard)
Included
Wireless Network Adapter: On-board 802.11ac/Bluetooth 4.0 (nic-asus-wireless-impact)
Included
Security Software: None (security-none)
Display: 28" Asus® PB287Q 4k 3840 x 2160 60Hz (mon-asus-PB287Q)
$699.00
Keyboard: Corsair® K70 Mechanical Gaming Keyboard (kb-corsair-k70)
$145.00
Mouse: Corsair® M45 Gaming Mouse (mouse-corsair-m45)
$70.00
Headphones: Corsair® Vengeance 2000 Wireless Headset (headsets-corsair-vengeance-2000)
$149.99
Angelic Service Warranty: Lifetime Angelic Service Labor and Phone Support with 1 Year Comprehensive Warranty (warranty-1yearstandard)
Included
MAINGEAR Premium "Out of Box" Experience: MAINGEAR Premium "Out of Box" Experience - XLARGE T-SHIRT (acc-mg-oobe-xlarge)
Additional MAINGEAR "Gear": MAINGEAR T-SHIRT - XLARGE (Design will vary) (acc-MG-TSHIRT-XLarge)
$15.00

Special instructions, partitioning information, tweaks, or say "HI!" to your builder!: Hello, I am hoping to play on Vipweapons.com
Cod UO server. And
Some newer games, Bf4 etc. This will be for games only, I have Win 7 Pro 64bit OS.
Thank you.

Total:
$1,854.99
 
A 4k monitor with a system that's only suited to 1080p at best is pointless!!
At 4k youd be looking at a slideshow in games.
These mini PC gaming systems are incredibly overpriced & underpowered - its impressive what they can cram into a small space but the integrated boards mean they're underpowered & not upgradeable.

For that money you could throw together a fairly epic mitx/matx build & 1440p monitor.
 

VIPChristian

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I thought So, It seemed pretty obvious the price is just too high.
I have seen the videos on 4k building, I will think about it.
Dont really have the cash yet, so just messin around looking at stuff.
 

-Lone-

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That's a bit too much info like Radeon AMD rewards and stuff, lol. But yeah, I wouldn't go up to 4k on that budget, just get like 1x 970 right now and get a 2nd later and you'll be able to game at 1440p ultra settings no problem.
 
^ looking costs nothing mate ;-)
It will make you want even more though.
I honestly think 4k has arrived long before its time ,it'll be a decade IMO before there's a single gpu solution available capable of gaming at 4k res.
Current cards are still only 'just' capable of 1440p.
Even a tri card setup costing in excess of $1000 for the gpu's alone is hit & miss at 4k.

The amount of people buying 4k TV's at the moment & using them to watch SD transmissions or at best 1080i sky/cable broadcasts is insane.
I'll stick with my 1080p setups until the rest of the technology catches up.
 

VIPChristian

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We were discussing that at work, Why buy a 4k to watch programming when noone is broadcasting at that level ?

 

VIPChristian

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Hi Lone
Thank You
VIP Christian