Digital Foundry: £100 Graphics Card vs Next-gen consoles

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Pemalite said:

Hurr1cane said:
I would love to get into pc gaming just don't have the knowledge to build my own and just don't know if a prebuilt is worth the $ (alienware, etc) in comparison to my xbox1. $500 compared to $1500.

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Buying a prebuilt is typically charged at a premium, there are big for-profit companies involved remember and they can't loss-lead on the hardware.

You don't need to spend $1500, or even $1000, if you have a budget in mind and a panel resolution, plenty of people on this forum can suggest you some hardware and places to buy it from too, then with some special Youtube voodoo magic it can guide you through the assembly process. :)

curl-6 said:

adriane23 said:
My take:

For more money than a next gen console, you can have a PC that will either slightly underperform, compete, or slightly outperform a next gen console.

What was the point of this?

If you already have the PC, upgrading to this card to get similar performance is far cheaper than getting a PS4 or Xbone.

For sure! And considering there are roughly 100+ million Desktop PC's sold world wide each year... That's allot of potential gaming PC's, most people still do have a Desktop in their home right? Everyone I know does...

tbh if you really wanted to you could spend 1500 just on gpu 3 times r9 290x that would be seriously future proof