Which one should I get: PS3 or XBOX360?!

[Michael-5]

DanneSandin said:

Michael-5 said:

Are you buying a $1,000 Tower or laptop? Building from scratch or getting pre-built? You can get really awesome towers that can play games on high or max settings for $600 or so if you build from scratch. I was thinking of building a new Tower as mine in literally 10 years old, and I can build one, from scratch, for $350, and it's significantly more powerful then PS3/360.

You could have it all for $1,000 if you spend your money wisely, and is your PC that bad? Can't you just upgrade it?

Tower meaning stationary? Mine is about 6-8 years old... My brother told me that he isn't too sure if I can upgrade this one actually... But yeah, if I'm getting a tower (stationary) I'll build it myself (or rather; my brother's gonna build it ;)). How come you can build a good tower for $350?! We looked at this one: http://www.komplett.se/k/ki.aspx?sku=742450 The site is in swedish but you can see what parts it's made up of. In UDS it would kost 992...

I swing both ways regarding RTS/TBS: I love Civ and EU3!

Fancy case +$100, DVD RW (With Lightscribe?)+ $30, 1TB hard drive +$100 (It's also over-priced on that website, I recently bought 3TB Western Digital with an external case for $150, I can find 500GB for <$50), also there are graphics card 90% as good for 50-60% the price (($300 for that one)

However that's a good price for a processor, and RAM.

If that's $1,000 it's because it's pre-built, those parts at local Computer Stores (for me Canada Computers) should cost $700 or less, and by removing or reduce bs extra's (do you really need 1TB? Do you have any externals ATM? You don't need a $300 graphics card, think there is a new gen of graphics cards releasing soon too, so wait for a price crash)

Still, for fun I built a $350 computer ($400 if you add a hard-drive, I was planing on using an external I have) and it's about 80-90% as powerful. I'm too cheap so I didn't buy it, and I'd have to find out which graphics card exactly, but yea. I had a 3.4 Ghz processor, same RAM, similar motherboard, a used shitty case, the Dual Layer DVD drive from my PC (but a used one is $10-$15), and a lower end graphics card. Mind you this price is before tax.