Poll: Have you spent money getting ready for ESO?

Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:36 pm

Also post the exact amount in this thread if you would like.

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Marcus Jordan
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:40 pm

The only thing I've spent in regards to ESO is buying the game itself. My rig is more than capable of playing ESO as it is.

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michael flanigan
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:09 pm

the only money that I have spent on the game is the game itself, & a cooling pad platform for my laptop because I noticed during the beta that it was getting really hot.

so that's $80 for the game itself and $40 for the laptop pad. So $120 total
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Erika Ellsworth
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:10 pm

wot he said :D

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James Shaw
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:13 pm

Yep just spent $1k on parts and built a new desktop. Budget was $800....
I've been using a laptop for about 5 years so it's nice to have a decent machine again.
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Harry Hearing
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:04 pm

$650 or so. Bought an Xbox1 and the Imperial Edition.
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Khamaji Taylor
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:05 pm

whats a cooling pad platform?

never heard of it, and i have huge heat issues

i live and play from Thailand 6-8 months a year, with temperatures of 40+ celcius in my room at times, anything that could help with heat i want to get

back on topic i bought a new mouse, that i intend to bring to Denmark, as the computer i use there have one of those old mice with the ball inside lol

when i come back to Thailand in August, i intend to get water cooling for my PC, and if they have some other obvious improvements that aswell

and it sounds like ill have to get a cooling pad platform as well, i may have to check before i leave if thats something i can get here or need to bring back from Denmark

edit NM i see the cooling pad was for a laptop...

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suzan
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 8:56 am

New desktop and 3 monitors for me,
Amd 8350 (yes i know not as good as intel but sick of intel changing mobo platforms every new cpu)

16 gig of 1866 crucial ballastic ram

corsair 1050 watt psu

asus crosshair v mobo

3 samsung 250g ssds

2 tb seagate storage drive

dual evga 780ti's

and all tucked into a nice coolmaster storm trooper full size case :)

My wife should of know better then to leave me alone in microcenter while she went into trader joes, it was like giving a crack addict an unlimited supply :)

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megan gleeson
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:26 pm

Same here... and mine were €uros.

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Samantha Jane Adams
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 1:08 pm

Have bought about $600 in upgrades to play ESO on max settings.Was due for upgrades anyways so ESO was the perfect excuse to do so.

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Steeeph
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 5:56 pm

it is a pad u place ur laptop on that blows cold air into the bottom vents that cools down ur gpu and cpu. plugs into ur laptop via usb
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Mariaa EM.
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 12:43 pm

"No I already have the best set up possible"

Not exactly true, but it was the closest option. I don't have the best set up possible, but I do have one that can run the game at max settings at 50+ fps in most cases. I'm completely content with it.

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Sami Blackburn
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 7:54 pm

Why there are no such option "no - but i look if this game developes further and make decission after that. " Only No and never was close enough.

I was already prepared to bought new computer (+1200 €) and invest to game but... And spring and summer is near so I do not have time.

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Chris Cross Cabaret Man
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:25 pm

yeah i figured out my mistake, hence the edit ;)

i guess to me it just never crosses my mind to even think about gaming on a laptop

im probably just to old LOL

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Lily Evans
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:20 am

well my laptop runs the game on high settings with the exception of a couple things I put on medium at 30+ fps, which is just fine for me. I'm not a stuck up tech junkie who has to have 60 frames on ultra..no offense to anyone who is..
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kyle pinchen
 
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Post » Fri Mar 21, 2014 12:08 am

Unless people actually needed to upgrade an outdated machine, making specific upgrades just because of ESO sounds dumb lol.

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Alex [AK]
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:35 am

Spent $100 on new RAM trying to find out why my game client would not stop crashing.

Ended up re-installing Windows which i think has fixed it, but the RAM was needed anyways :D
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Setal Vara
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 5:39 pm

it's never a good idea to insert new hardware without making a clean install of an OS.

no matter how much it may say it's "ok" to do it, being sure its taken maximum advantage of by simply reinstalling an OS always managed to put my mind at ease.

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Lily Evans
 
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Post » Fri Mar 21, 2014 12:01 am


I didn't re-install my OS because of the new RAM, i did it because the problem persisted despite the new RAM.

While other hardware changes might benefit from re-installing your OS, RAM really has no effect at all and would be a complete waste of time.
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Emma louise Wendelk
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 4:56 pm

New graphcis card, not because I needed to but wanted to. It was the last real upgrade for my PC and I'm good for the next decade.

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LittleMiss
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 4:21 pm

Doubled up my titan for no good reason other than it's cool, and a new PSU. There isn't too much more I can cram in this tower so I'm done for awhile.

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!beef
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 5:01 pm

Nope, got a pretty kick [censored] rig already.

Even if I didn't I'd never upgrade for just one game, once you start attaching hundreds of dollars to a single games value in your mind you start finding it very easy to raise your expectations of the games quality and as a result finding it very easy to get disappointed.

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Katey Meyer
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 11:57 am

New graphics card here, $160 with tax. I wasn't actually planning to buy it specifically for TESO, as I've been debating upgrading it for all games for a while now, but a couple of days ago one of the connections on my current card went bad, so it seemed like as good a time as any. My PC is otherwise plenty beefy, and easily upgradeable.

I'm considering adding a second monitor, or at least I was, until the money for that went for the new card, heh. Now I'll be waiting a month or so on that.

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Siidney
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 3:43 pm

Have an awesome PC already so I will have just spent money on the Physical Imperial Edition when they charge my CC as soon as they ship it.

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Marguerite Dabrin
 
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Post » Thu Mar 20, 2014 9:41 am

I bought a 780ti to replace my ailing 7950, not really related to the game though.

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Scott
 
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