$350 PC that runs Fallout 3 better than PS3 & 360.

[gebx]

Soleron said:

gebx said:

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Here's a good example - Call of Duty series

Minimum requirements

Call of Duty 4

CPU: Intel(R) Pentium(R) 4 2.4 GHz or AMD(R) Athlon(TM)

64 2800+ processor or any 1.8Ghz Dual Core Processor or better supported

RAM: 512MB RAM (768MB for Windows Vista)

Harddrive: 8GB of free hard drive space

Video card (generic): NVIDIA(R) Geforce(TM) 6600 or better or ATI(R) Radeon(R) 9800Pro or better

 

Call of Duty World at War

Processor: Pentium 4 @ 3 GHz/AMD 64 3200+
Memory: 512 MB (1 GB for Vista)
Hard Drive: 8 GB Free
Video Memory: 256 MB (nVidia GeForce 6600/ATI Radeon X1600)

 

And I also expect Modern Warfare 2 to have higher requirements then CoD 4

 

Those minimum requirements (and even the recommended ones) are still well below the system described. The E5200 is three or four times as fast as that P4, and the 4830 is maybe ten times as fast. You're not really sat=ying that mere software efficiency improvements will make up a 4x gap within the PS3's lifetime?

 

 

I guess that's where my original question lies - Will you need to update the PC to play games next year (or within the PS3's lifetime)??

Also I started looking up those links in your OP - the $55 Windows XP is gone, the next cheapest is at $89 and you've left out all the shipping cost of the new egg purchases... and you've incorrectly stated taxes where included in the motherboard when in fact its not (although thats a moot point since taxes are applied to consoles also).