By using this site, you agree to our Privacy Policy and our Terms of Use. Close
nightsurge on 02 June 2009
Edit Thread
Gnizmo said:

nightsurge said:

A 9800M GT you mean.  Technically a laptop would need to be even higher because the mobile counterparts to the desktop cards are not equal in power.

Also, the games true res may be low, but the Xbox 360 and PS3 scale them internally and still output an image that is 1080p.  Where did you friend happen to get a $600 laptop at retail that has a 9800M GT in it?  Lowest I have seen to have such a card was $1000.  Also, where are the links to those $500 retail PCs that have a good video card?

A 9500GT cannot support gaming at high settings with AA enabled like the 360 can, so don't try to give me one of those PC configs.  I'll lower it and say a 9600GT/HD4670 minimum.

Also, the Xbox 360 is striving to be an entire social networking experience in and of itself.  That's why it has Facebook and Twitter and all these other great features built in/added in.  PC's can do them to, yeah, but this is a unique experience designed to take advantage of the living room and the larger TV.

 I have a HD3850 and it can easily output in 1080P. I don't know where you are getting your information from but it is clearly wrong. I picked it up for $100 like a year ago. I built my whole rig for just over $600 (specs below) and it plays most games on high with no trouble at all. My PC also outputs to my TV and uses a game controller for games that I feel work better for them (and there are quite a few). I am not slagging consoles here, but you need to at least get your facts straight before you start mouthing off. A quick search on Newegg should give you a lot of the information you are looking for though.

*AMD Phenom X4 9600, 4 gigs of ram, HD Radeon 3850.  I love this little beast.

I likely know far more about what I am talking about on this subject than nearly anyone else here.

Also, the HD 3850 is just barely below the 9600GT.  Sure it can output 1080p video.  Almost any discrete graphics card can do that.  But there is no way your HD 3850 can play games at 1920x1080 resolution on high settings.  That is what I am talking about here.

If for one second you could understand what I am talking about, maybe you could present a valid argument.

Also, I would love to see someone provide me some proof/info on an LCD TV upscaling a PC image (say the PC image is 1280x720 or so).  Most LCD TV's don't even do upscaling themselves, and when they do it is usually crap.  It is best to let the actual device do the upscaling (the media player or console in this case).