Soleron said:
ZenfoldorVGI said:
Soleron said:
Killiana1a said:
For $300 you can play Modern Warfare 2 with less hardware worries than someone playing it on a $1500 PC gaming rig.
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Hardware is really really cheap now. Excluding monitor and peripherals because the console doesn't have them, I could put together a PC that gives 360/PS3 like graphics for $300:
CPU $50 (X2 240)
Motherboard $40 (690G)
RAM $30 (2GB DDR2)
Graphics $50 (HD 4650)
Case PSU $40 (or use your current)
Optical Drive $20 (or use your current)
HDD $40 (or use your current)
Total: $270, or $170 if you use whatever computer parts you have now
Because you do own a computer right now, so just reuse it and add capable CPU/graphics/RAM.
Not $1500 at all.
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That PC will NOT do graphics like the PS3. It might benchmark as high, but due to current PC game optimization and selection, the games won't come close to some top tier PS3 exclusives.
Name some. Plus screenshots and IQ comparisons.
That's my opinion. :P Matter of fact, most HD games, including The Witcher, would barely play at sub HD resolutions with that setup.
I'm talking about playing games at 1280x720 30fps here. Which is what most 360/PS3 games do, especially the ones that look amazing.
Everything is a huge bottleneck. 2gb of DDR2, wtf, lol? That's barely gonna run Windows.
2GB is perfectly fine. I've never seen a review bottlenecked by that amount of RAM. I have that amount and my usage has never gone into pagefile when playing Supreme Commander, Half-life 2 or SC2 at 1280x1024 High settings.
Specs are not interchangable between consoles and PC. Due to game and OS and code optimization, I'd guess games run about 3x better on a console with similar specs.
What settings on a PC look as good, IQ wise, as a 360 for some cross-platform game of your choice? I'd like to compare but I don't own any such games. I'd say that PC is about 3x as fast graphics-wise as a PS3 GPU to make up for the optimisation defecit.
I just built what I feel is a current gen gaming PC and I spend about 2000 dollars. Better gaming that console? Oh hell yeah. But I used quality components. Why would you want to buy shit just to scrap by. That PC you just built has been obsolete for years and won't play current games worth a shit.
But it does equal a PS3/360 IMO. That's what I was aiming for. Obviously I used rubbish and cheap components to do it, but so did MS for the 360 until recently. It can't play current games, but that wasn't the objective.
If I was to build a gaming PC kit would be more like $600 (X4 945/HD6870/4GB RAM). How on earth did you spend $2000?
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http://gamrconnect.vgchartz.com/thread.php?id=117661&page=1&str=67265348#
Estimates: 160 CPU, 140 case, 230 monitor, 140 OS, 170 DDR3 8gb, $40 CPU fan, $30 alternate fans, 150 64gb Sata3 SSD, 60 1 TB HDD, 30 DVD RW, 170 Mobo, 20 fan controller, 160 1000w PSU, 500 GPU, 20 bucks Arctic silver 5 thermal compound kit, 10 hours labor/10 hours research tweaks optimization for windows 7 SDD. I'm doing some regedit as we speak, and then I'm gonna oc to 3.8 adjust my ram timings, torture test, and get ready for some new games.
Should be futureproof with the AM3 socket, will upgrade CPU with the next gen AMD unit.
How could you not, lol?
i could have spent a LOT more than that if I would have gotten the i7 mobo and CPU, but I'm against Intel atm.
