5 Reasons PC Gaming Is Better Than Consoles

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SvennoJ said:

Pemalite said:

SvennoJ said:
This is what always puts me off pc gaming:

It's cyber Monday, lets see if I can get a good deal on a gpu upgrade. Turns out most cards still need more then a 350 watt power supply, ok I can replace that. Crap I also need two PCI-E slots next to each other or it won't fit. I'm not going to replace the motherboard, forget it.

So lets check out the Geforce 640, 1 slot, 350 watt, looks perfect. Or not:
http://www.engadget.com/2012/06/20/nvidia-geforce-gt-640-review-roundup/
Bad performance compared to the HD 7750, barely maintaining 30fps at 1080p. The 7750 doesn't fit in my system, and I can already get 1080p30 with my current 3 year old card.

Goes back to play AC3 on ps3.

What a Graphics card says and what a graphics card uses are two seperate things, again the problem is peoples lack of knowledge or time that is the barrier to PC gaming.

My HTPC has a low profile Radeon 7750 and is used on a 300w PSU paired up with a 45w Athlon 2 x4 620e chip, the whole system draws around 100~ watts from the wall according to my meter on idle and 250w on load and it can run pretty much every newer game fine on medium settings, older games with everything on Max at only 1080P.
The other problem is... You didn't build your system and you are hating on the whole platform because of it.

I'm not hating on the platform, only disappointed in the incompatibility issues. I didn't build my system and before I got this one 3 years ago I could always upgrade the gpu no problem. The whole power hungry double slot card craze was just starting back then. And no I didn't do my research, the pc broke down, we just had a newborn, no time for research and build a replacement.

Now I'm simply looking for a affordable and compatible gpu upgrade, a 3 year newer card should be better right?
Maybe the problem is the reviews that only compare it to the big monster cards and maybe the GT640 is a pretty good upgrade for me.

why dont you look into getting a self build using an AMD APU, it will be cheap and affordable and no doubt run on all your existing hardware (except your motherboard which you will have to change) if you go for a mini-atx motherboard using an AMD A10 5800k APU you should not need to get the GT640 as the A10 has its own gpu based on the 6670 and by adding another discrete graphics card like the 6670 which costs under $50 it will run in hybrid crossfire giving you a significant performance boost especially with the latest AMD catalyst drivers, look for an FM2 socket motherboard, also you may not need to change your PSU.