To be honest i fear that really no pc you build today will deliver the same game experience as a PS4 in a few years time. I think people are really underestimating the change that will occur in the near future when it comes to programming, those one chip designs and and unified memory means so many tasks are going to be shared and offloaded to the GPU, physics, AI you name it. It only takes like 10% of the PS4's gpu power to equal a top of the line i7 cpu when it comes to big computing tasks. And since both XOne and PS4 use low powered 8 core cpu's, devs will have to focus on sharing tasks on many cores. We all saw what happened last gen, when games started running crappy on anything less then a tri-core cpu. This means that AMD's 8 core cpu's could start to outperform the much faster quad core i7 cpu's in games in the future.
If you want a budget gaming pc i would recommend waiting a little longer and pick up one of AMD's new APU's when the come out. Those could match the XOne in power, and since that means your pc will be pretty similair games will likely run fine. Besides with the integrated graphics you could save on buying an external graphics card, meaning it might actually be alot cheaper than even $500.
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