PC vs. Consoles - Cost and power comparison

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Ssliasil said:

anthony64641 said:
APU: AMD A10-5800k trinity 3.8 quad core with radeon HD 7660D (intergrated)- 130$
Ram (8gb)-50$
Case w/PSU:rosewill mid tower case with PSU-60$
Motherboard- 50$
HDD- 1tb- 100$
Case fan: 5-10$
monitor- use old one
total= 390 tax not included

ps4 requires +50$ for online and since pc is free this is a good build

That adds up to $400.00 without tax actually.  The RAM price is waaaaaaaay off, you are using DDR3 RAM in your build, where-as the PS4 is using GDDR5 which is much better, but much more expensive...Several hundred dollars expensive.  

 

Also you forgot to include the price of the OS which will run you about $100.

To build a PC like a PS4 is COMPLETELY impossible due to the way the PS4 is built. 

People underestimate exactly what the PS4 is cabable of.

1.) It has absoltutely ZERO bottleneck issues which is generally impossible for PC's because PC parts arent made specifically to work with certain parts.  The parts in the PS4 are all built specifically to work around each other. 

2.) Yo cannot buy the majority of what you will find in the PS4 as nearly everything is custom built.  Hell even GDDR5 RAM being used as System RAM was truly unheard of until the PS4 was announced.

The point is, the PS4 is several times better than any PC you could build with similar specs, and also cheaper. 

Bottlenecks become less of an issue with PC's. They also use GDDR5 for Vram. The main problem with a PC now is with consoles having so much you will see current video cards with 2GB of Vram start to struggle.