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Starforge Systems Voyager II PC Review | MMORPG.com
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Starforge Systems Voyager II PC Review | MMORPG.com
Starforge Systems is marketing its Voyager class of PC towards gamers and content creators alike. We took the Voyager II for a spin to see how the PC holds up and if its worth its price tag.
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GPU: Nvidia RTX 4070 Ti Super 16GB
NOPE!
I was able to build out a comparable system on the cyberpowerpc website with the same CPU, memory, and a RTX 4080 super for $2500 ($2497 to be exact), so that's a big bunch of nope. Not competitively priced at all.
For some people it's not worth the time to save a few hundred $, and other people don't want to deal with troubleshooting. I usually build my own PCs, but had one with 2 faulty motherboards, 1 faulty HDD, and a USB drive that didn't work. Having to return the parts and wait for new ones took an extra 2-3 weeks to finally get it all together.
The base model without the custom Smite case was $2850. A $350 markup in price for a pre-built gaming PC is not bad at all.
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.
Not everyone has the time or knowledge to do it. You can replace your own windows yourself, too, but can you do it? Sometimes it's just easier and better to pay someone to do something for you than to do it yourself.
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
Then there are small compatibility issues that regular people will simply not know about. To give you an example, when I was ordering my old PC, I requested specific components and the store then informed me that there would not be sufficient clearance between the memory heat spreader and the large Noctua fan, and then suggested alternative options. Unless you deal with these products on a daily basis, you will not know that.
Third, there's the warranty matter. In all my previous builds I had at least some issue that required hardware replacement. Perhaps because I used to select ASUS, which in my experience is complete shit. Either way, instead of me once again RMA-ing components back and waiting for weeks for replacements (and then perhaps figuring out it wasn't that component's fault after all), I just take it back to the store and pick it up a couple of days later. No hassle.
And frankly, people who do this for a living will always do a much better job than what I could do. When I got my old PC and saw the cable management, I was amazed. I would never have done anything even close to that clean and professional work...
What are the tech specs for it?
While I always build my computers and that's the way to go for me, I understand "Why".
Many do not know or have the desire to build their own computer. Its .. tricky, especially if you have no idea wtf to do, which I assume, a very big majority of the computers users are.
And its ..time consuming. Order the parts, wait for the parts, they might get all at once ( very unlikely ). If not, get 2 parts today , 3 tomorrow, etc. Then, start .. building it. Start with the case, cables management ( which I hate ) and so on.
The last one I build ( the one I am currently using ) I had a pretty .. rough time to build it for..different reasons. After this, I told myself that the next one, I'll just .. yea, buy it lol. I'll pay few hundred euros in plus, but I'll get it like.. "plug and play" and that's it.
..or who am I kidding? Very likely to also build the next one myself and not buy it in..full!
Reporter: What's behind Blizzard success, and how do you make your gamers happy?
Blizzard Boss: Making gamers happy is not my concern, making money.. yes!
Your reasoning is way off. Just because someone is a hardcore player doesn't mean they have the time or aptitude to make a pc.
And as I've already mentioned, I CAN build my own pc but I think my next one will be from someone who can build one. I don't really enjoy the process and I'd rather spend the money.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
I own this PC, I got the previous version of it (aka they update the parts as the generations improve) and the boat is minimum to nonexistent, I've had it about 1 1/2 years now and I cant remember is there was anything I needed to uninstall/clean.
As for the main talking topic on this, the price range is perfect for those of us who don't want to deal with building a PC ourselves; I spent about 2 weeks going through various sites and pricing out a PC and it was roughly around 2400-2500 for what I wanted, all the various sites i.e ibuypower, and cyperpowerpc were basically the same price. Then went through all the reviews of these sites, asked friends and other gamers, and read through the return/warranty policies, and found all of them to be extremely atrocious when it comes parts failing, honoring policies/returns, and the struggle of time and sometimes additional money it takes to get your borked parts handled.
Then you look into Starforged where the same stuff I priced out, actually in some cases a small bit better, and the price is about $300-$350 more. You read the reviews, the return/warranty policies and ask around and find out they have an extremely positive reputation and the policies are consumer friendly as hell.
So yea, I paid the little bit of extra money I had to save up for to get the peace of mind of a prebuilt, preloaded PC and avoided the risk of parts coming at separate times, failing, and having to build it/load it myself. 100% Worth.
Mess with the best, Die like the rest
Hardcore gamer does not mean hardcore hardware enthusiast. By your logic all Nascar drivers must also be mechanics.
I've been a PC gamer for close to 25 years now and I've never built my own. I've picked out parts to have it built for me and I know what to look for to get the best performance but I don't have the technical skill nor the desire to do it. I don't mind paying someone else to do it for me. I guarantee you, there's more PC gamers like me than you may think.
Is a man not entitled to the herp of his derp?
Remember, I live in a world where juggalos and yugioh players are real things.
Godfred's Tomb Trailer: https://youtu.be/-nsXGddj_4w
Original Skyrim: https://www.nexusmods.com/skyrim/mods/109547
Serph toze kindly has started a walk-through. https://youtu.be/UIelCK-lldo
I built my previous two PCs but the last was in 2015, and an upgraded GPU in 2018. Everything is dated and on some games i just barely beat the minimum specs.
I actually do think If I did all the research and waited for sales I could have saved over a thousand on it, but I have the money and just don't care enough to do all the research, take the chance of damaging stuff and needing to RMA or buy again, or install wrong and have to troubleshoot.
It could have been a nice lump on the mortgage, but with how much time I spend on PC for work and gaming/streaming/youtube it is worth the cost.
If it doesn't meet standards for liike 5-10 years I'll feel pretty bad about it though lol
Between CPU cores getting faster, graphics APIs getting more clever, and die shrinks making it cheap and easy to offer quite a lot of CPU cores, nearly the only way that anything would be substantially CPU limited within the next several years on the 20-core i7 processor is if the developers are just really bad at optimizing code. And developers who are bad at coding tends to cause worse problems than merely low frame rates.