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Pemalite said:
Danman27 said:
Pemalite said:
Danman27 said:

It's amazing that my $400 Ps4 can even get comparable performance to my $1000 gaming PC. Now that's where the value in console comes in though. They give unparelled performance at their price range. I couldn't even come close to build a gamng pc as good as the ps4 for $400.

You can build a PC that's as good as a PS4 for $400.

Buy a second hand 6 year old Core 2 Quad PC for $50-$100, drop in a second hand $100 GPU like a 2Gb Radeon 6950, buy a cheap PSU and some extra Ram.
Then overclock the CPU to 3.6ghz+ and you have a PC that is arguably better than the PS4.
Although, personally I would lean towards a GCN GPU because of Mantle which would benefit greatly on a machine such as this.

As for a $1000 gaming PC, it would beat the PS4 back to age of empires, espcially if it's built today, they aren't even in the same league, even if you skew the results in the PS4's favor by throwing a Korean 1440P monitor into the PC's build.

Yep, you're right. If you take away the fact that this thing would break really soon, use more power, not perform as well, and probably have a failing gpu, you're right.  A cheap PSU isn't really what you want to go for. Those old cpu's aren't as strong, and it can't be assumed that they'll overclock that high. Also, you're lowballing on prices, considering the cheapest computer I can find within your perameters is $170 on ebay. And the cheapest 6950 I can currently find on ebay is $200. Plus the ram would be very slow, consifering you'd be using ddr2, and ddr2 ram is also rediculously expensive. I never said that my $1000 pc doesn't beat by a lot, but the ps4 can offer similar performance in some games. 

By Cheap I mean something like an "Antec Neo Eco 520C". - Which is Seasonic based and can be had for about $50-$60 if you play your cards right.
Cheap doesn't always mean sub-par quality or unreliability, besides consoles have *always* been known never to have failures, right, right? (YLOD and RROD comes to mind.)

As for the CPU a Core 2 Quad running at 3.6ghz (I am yet to see a G0 stepping not achieve this.) is more potent than the latest AMD FX quad-cores, they are old, but certainly have aged well and are far superior to the 8-core Jaguars.

As for the Radepon 6950's, well. I sold mine for $100 each a couple months back (As my 3x 7970's wen't into my AMD system and I got 4x R9 290's in my main machine thus making my 6950's redundant, did throw some benchies on my wall before flogging them off.), most of the local swap meets sell them for about $100, Ebay isn't always the cheapest way to get hardware. - If you bid aggressively on Ebay, nothing says you can't get it for under $100.
Lets not forget that if you can manage to grab a reference design Radeon 6950, you can also unlock it into a 6970.

And who says you have to use DDR2? With the Core 2 series, it was chipset dependant and not CPU dependant on the type of Ram you can use as Intel had not integrated the memory controller on-die at that point in time, thus you can use DDR3 and/or DDR2, some DDR1 motherboards would also accept the Core 2 processors as well.
But nice try with that attempt to spin.

I would also like to see the PS4 render games at 1440P, 1440P monitors are getting stupidly cheap these days, you can get them for as low as $350 AUD now. (I assume $300 USD.)

So, everything you just said was solely hypothetical, when I supported my argument with facts. What I got your argument is that you sold your gpu's for a crappy price, and someone got a really good deal. 

here's what I'm seeing for price. 

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Intel-SLGYY-Core-2-Quad-Q9505-2-83GHz-6M-1333MHz-CPU-Processor-/141022778464?pt=CPUs&hash=item20d59cd460

http://www.ebay.com/itm/TESTED-HP-6000-Pro-SFF-Desktop-Motherboard-DDR3-LGA775-531965-001-Q43-w-2-8-GHz-/360852669872?pt=Motherboards&hash=item54047ec5b0

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Hynix-8GB-2X-4GB-DDR3-PC3L-10600R-1333MHz-240-Pin-ECC-REG-RAM-PC3-10600-1RX4-/301093514605?pt=US_Memory_RAM_&hash=item461a926d6d

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Sapphire-Technology-AMD-Radeon-HD-6950-FLEX-Edition-2-GB-GDDR5-Memory-/221379914612?pt=PCC_Video_TV_Cards&hash=item338b456b74

http://www.ebay.com/itm/Thermaltake-W0121RU-600W-ATX-PSU-Refurbished-/121052894853?pt=PCA_UPS&hash=item1c2f509685

So, with those components, we're already at higher than $400. And we've still got case, hard drive, disc drive, cooler, and OS (if you want to include it). So, I'd predict your little build costing around $600-$700. And, that build would perform worse than a ps4.