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rasone77 on 14 August 2008
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Burgles said:
supermariogalaxy said:
Burgles said:
rasone77 said:
You can buy a decent PC that can run Mass Effect andd Call of Duty 4 at the same price as a 360 now days. Plus he'd save $20 on the games themselves buying both CoD4 and ME for $50 (or less) rather than $60.

I know he won't but I thought I'd mention it.

 

 No you can't.

A PC up to running those games at medium settings is going to cost you 2.5-3x as much as a 360.

I challenge you to spec me a PC that will do what you say, or even near what you say.

 

You mean without as monitor, right? Well, here I go:

 


RAIDMAX ATX Mid-Size Case               $21.99

EXCELSTOR 80GB HDD (Oh well, it's more than most 360 SKUs)     $34.99

ASUS Micro-ATX AMD Mobo                 $48.99

EVGA 8600GT                                (with $20 mail-in-rebate) $49.99

ROSEWILL 550wt PSU                       $49.99

CORSAIR 2GB RAM                             $34.99

AMD Athlon 64X2 5000+ 2.6Ghz        $66.00

______________________________________________

TOTAL: $306.94

 

DOES NOT INCLUDE KEYBOARD/MOUSE (I assume you already have those...)

 

 

ALSO: You can put a couple more fans in the case for $10-$20 more, if you want...

1. Excludes sales tax

2. 8600GT won't run Mass Effect on medium settings or COD4 at a reasonable resolution.

3. No Optical drive included in listing to install the games ;)

4. No keyboardmousemonitor, bloke up top said a full PC.

5. Onboard sound, not really ideal these days for gaming.

6. Game controller (For Mass Effect?)

7. Speakers!!!?

8. Operating System?

 

 

I appreciate you taking the time to search that out though and it is pretty darn cheap much cheaper than I expected, and my points aren't a critisim of you, just saying that an Xbox 360 isn't the same price as a full PC as was posted by an unhelpful troll...

Currently running Bioshock (1220x720), Mass Effect (1440x990) and CoD4 (1220x720) using not only an 8600 GT but an 8600M GT and you should use a keyboard and mouse for the PC version should you not?

Also heres a Dell with twice the HD space of an Elite for just $20 more that will run both games. It also has 7.1 audio. I plugged my Computer directly into my TV and Surround Sound system just like I would a 360. This is a much better deal.

http://configure.us.dell.com/dellstore/config.aspx?c=us&cs=19&l=en&oc=DDCWFA1&s=dhs

Configuration follows: PRICE: $469

mponents
PROCESSOR Intel® Pentium® dual-core processor E2180 (1MB, 2.00GHz, 800FSB) edit
OPERATING SYSTEM Genuine Windows Vista® Home Basic Service Pack 1 edit
MONITOR No Monitor edit
MEMORY 2GB Dual Channel DDR2 SDRAM at 800MHz- 2DIMMs edit
HARD DRIVE 250GB Serial ATA Hard Drive (7200RPM) w/DataBurst Cache™ edit
OPTICAL DRIVE 16X DVD+/-RW Drive edit
VIDEO CARD ATI Radeon HD 2400 PRO 256MB edit
SOUND Integrated 7.1 Channel Audio edit
KEYBOARD & MOUSE Dell USB Keyboard and Dell Optical USB Mouse edit
FLOPPY & MEDIA READER No Floppy Drive Included edit
MODEM No Modem Option edit
My Software & Accessories
SPEAKERS No speakers (Speakers are required to hear audio from your system) edit
ANTI-VIRUS SOFTWARE McAfee SecurityCenter with anti-virus, anti-spyware, firewall, 30-Days edit
OFFICE SOFTWARE Microsoft Works 9.0 edit
My Service
WARRANTY & SERVICE 1Yr Ltd HW WRTY, InHome Service after Remote Diagnosis, 24x7 Phone Support edit
DATASAFE ONLINE BACKUP Included 3 GB DataSafe Online Backup for 1Yr edit
ALSO INCLUDED WITH YOUR SYSTEM
Mouse Mouse included with Keyboard purchase
Adobe Software Adobe® Acrobat® Reader 8.1
Network Interface Integrated 10/100 Ethernet
Labels Windows Vista™ Basic
PHOTO AND MUSIC SOFTWARE No Entertainment software pre-installed

Don't call me an unhelpful troll again.