| amaral_slb said: - People buy consoles over PCs because it is easier to do so, there is no need to update ram, GPUs, etc, people actually have to be informed about the machine, instead of just plug in and play like consoles. It has nothing to do with price believe me. If it was about price no one would be playing consoles regardless of console price, just the money that you save for games alone on the PC makes up for the best GPUs you have to get from time to time, so don´t come at me with this "at $600" people would buy PCs", because you know it is BS |
To be fair... I built a Core 2 Quad Q6600, 4gb of ram and a Geforce 8800GT about 5 years ago.
All I have done to that system was kicked the Geforce 8800GT out and dropped in a Radeon 6950 2gb unlocked into a 6970, when I upgraded my main gaming PC to twin Radeon 7970 3gb cards.
I overclocked that Q6600 processor to 3.6ghz and I have been able to run every game at maximum quality settings. That's a 5 year old machine that makes the PS3 and Xbox 360 look like a Nintendo 64 in comparison. (And it still has a few years of life left in it!)
You don't have to spend thousands on a PC every 12 months to run everything, as long as you can handle a little overclocking and are willing to upgrade the graphics chip on the odd occassion... It can last you many many years.
Sure it won't hold a candle to my main rgaming PC, but as a secondary LAN rig, it's fine.
--::{PC Gaming Master Race}::--
