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supernihilist on 18 December 2013
greenmedic88 said:
prayformojo said:

I guess I should have mentioned this first but, I have a mouse, keyboard,case and a windows license already. So none of those would factor into the total cost. 

Totally different situation then.

If all you're buying is CPU, VGA card, RAM, MoBo, PSU(?), HDD, DVD drive, you'll be able to build a gaming PC on budget at $500 that will give you 1920x1080 @ 60 fps for just about every game released. 

Your VGA card is the most important component and up to half of your budget should go towards that.

I don't monitor these things hawkishly anymore because I have no current interest in building any more gaming PCs, but check Tom's Hardware for the best information on these things. 


exactly 500 is a pretty decent budget for a gaming PC, only the box of course



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pokoko on 18 December 2013
supernihilist said:
prayformojo said:


Hmmm, everyone else so far as contradicted this. Are you sure?


seriously mate? are you going to tell me what i see? my PC is 600$ and it just rips PS4....by now as i said. due to its closed environment nature the PS4 will out perform mine PC in a couple of years maybe.

if mine is 600 and kills PS4 and he has a 500 limit i think is fair to say he can match PS4. thats my logic

Why does it rip a PS4?  The CPU, sure, but isn't the GPU in the PS4 close to the AMD 7870?  



Augluae on 18 December 2013
supernihilist said:

my PC being a i7-2600K 4.3GHz ; GTX 650 Ti OC 2Gb and 8Gb RAM at 1666 costed me around 500 and its miles beyond next gen consoles

150$ for each CPU, GPU then some decent RAM and the rest should be around 500. you should be able to play CoD better than PS4 does :P


You're completely wrong. While that's a powerful CPU, a GTX 650 2gb with 8gb RAM doesn't EVEN match the current PS4 setting.

Then again, it's a PC it's not nearly half as optimized for game as the PS4/X1



Gilgamesh on 18 December 2013

A PC with the same stats as a PS4 will not perform the same. The PC would need bigger equipment.



Munkeh111 on 18 December 2013

My PC manages 1080p 60fps ultra on nearly every game, but it cost £1,000 1 year ago (basically 3 PS4s, especially when you count the cost of mouse and keyboard and monitors on top)

The graphics card alone cost as much as my PS4

The graphics are probably about even between the 2 at the moment, but the PS4 will have the better looking games in a few years unless I upgrade my PC



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greenmedic88 on 18 December 2013
Gilgamesh said:
A PC with the same stats as a PS4 will not perform the same. The PC would need bigger equipment.

These are convenient things PC fans like to ignore.

Optimization comes through AMD or Nvidia when they update drivers to run X new game(s), but it's not the same as writing game code that is tested, debugged, compiled, etc. to run specifically on a fixed spec piece of hardware. 

It's also economy of scale that allows corporations to build complete boxes with set specs for less than what an individual would be able to build on their own.

So naturally the correct response is for the individual builder to simply buy better specs. Spend more, get better results; a child could understand this logic. 



greenmedic88 on 18 December 2013
Munkeh111 said:
My PC manages 1080p 60fps ultra on nearly every game, but it cost £1,000 1 year ago (basically 3 PS4s, especially when you count the cost of mouse and keyboard and monitors on top)

The graphics card alone cost as much as my PS4

The graphics are probably about even between the 2 at the moment, but the PS4 will have the better looking games in a few years unless I upgrade my PC

Similar situation here. Not really interested in building another gaming PC currently either. 

But... if I was going to bother doing a rebuild, I would spend no less than $300 on the VGA card alone. I suppose a $400 VGA card upgrade with no other upgrades would be just fine, but about the only things I would really re-use for a proper rebuild would be my PSU and DVD drive. Less than $100 in savings. 

I don't count the cost of displays unless someone is starting from absolute zero though. That's like saying if you spend $1500 on a good HDTV, your $400 console cost closer to two grand. 



supernihilist on 18 December 2013
Augluae said:
supernihilist said:

my PC being a i7-2600K 4.3GHz ; GTX 650 Ti OC 2Gb and 8Gb RAM at 1666 costed me around 500 and its miles beyond next gen consoles

150$ for each CPU, GPU then some decent RAM and the rest should be around 500. you should be able to play CoD better than PS4 does :P


You're completely wrong. While that's a powerful CPU, a GTX 650 2gb with 8gb RAM doesn't EVEN match the current PS4 setting.

Then again, it's a PC it's not nearly half as optimized for game as the PS4/X1

yeah i exaggerated a lil bit lol

i only have to upgrade my 650 Ti OC 2GB for the 660 Ti OC 3GB. which im gonna do soon for 50 extra bucks. and that will litterally put me way beyond current gen of consoles honestly

 

600$ box beats PS4 easily



Muffin31190 on 18 December 2013

There is one thing that really cannot be bought for a reasonable price and that is the RAM on the PS4, people don't really know but that GDDR5 RAM is expensive as hell, you can find that type of ram only on graphics cards atm and those graphics cards are like $900 for like 8 gigs of GDDR5, and this is just the RAM an graphics cards were talking about.
So in short OP no you really cant get a PC that's close to the PS4 build for $500 dollars, Not saying I'm an Elitist but I have built my own PC so I do know a thing or two, at least about pricing and how everything works.

edit: Bolded part was originally 4 gigs but was meant to be 8, my fault till Viper1 brought it to my attention



Fifaguy360 on 18 December 2013

500 bucks? no way.