Fun Topic. Which are better for Gaming? PC's or Consoles?

[Alby_da_Wolf]

ZenfoldorVGI said:

Alby_da_Wolf said:
For some genres, like RPGs ,RTS' and FPS, and for some features, like mods, tweaks, patches, games price, etc, PC is the best, in the past it was also for the possibility to save games anywhere, if the developer didn't decide otherwise.
OTOH consoles are more imediate and hassle free, they give immediate fun. Neither can replace the other.
About PC being more expensive and so balancing cheaper games than console ones, well, if you need a PC anyway, configuring it with a better GPU isn't very expensive, if you aren't a maniac that always needs the latest liquid nitrogen cooled monster graphics cards. Being a PC retrogamer, I feel fine with Radeon HD3300 onboard graphics, its several times more powerful than my old Radeon 9250, it requires even less power and building my current PC with it cost me even less than adding a separate low-end card, but if I added a mid-range card,I'd have spent less than $100 more.

There are many games that are CPU heavy, not GPU heavy. Like WoW and GTAIV. You can't upgrade your CPU, so if yours isn't up to snuff, you need to buy a whole new computer.

That's why, when you build a computer, you shouldn't buy the cheapest shit you can find that will play crysis. Crysis is a GPU game. There are PCs that play crysis on Very High at 40fps, yet still catch slowdown on WoW at 1080p with the draw distance all the way up, because it's CPU heavy.

When you build a gaming computer, you should spare no expense on the CPU. Otherwise, you will not be able to play soon to be released CPU heavy games.

I never go for the fastest CPU, but  I never buy the cheapest one too, indeed, when I built my last PC I bought the fastest 45W Athlon I could get, the Athon64 X2 5050e back then, and I built a silent and cheap, but not underpowered PC. I would have done the same also for not gaming purposes, as I wanted a PC that was cheap and low-power consuming enough, but that wasn't slow manipulating photos, videos, etc.

About games, I hate bugged ones, so I wouldn't buy the latest immediately even if they were cheap, except a few exceptions.

And this Summer I thanked God I had a fresher (and quieter too) PC and I got an LCD 19" I saw on offer at IperCoop, so expelling a lot of Watts less than before...

 

Edit: CPU is not so stressed, but I can agree that getting the slowest available isn't a good idea, fast obsolescence is guaranteed that way, when less than $50 more than the cheapest  usually get a good enough one.