How Much Would a PC Cost with Specs similar to Scorpio.

[EricHiggin]

Pemalite said:

EricHiggin said:

They made up for the 12GB GDDR5 with the 12GB DDR3, so not really much price difference. The 4k BD drive would be more, but if they use the same drive between the XB1S and Scorpio, that will save them a lot with mass production, so maybe $100, $150 tops instead of $270. Plus all the accessories correct.

It puts you closer to the $600 mark anyway. They should be able to do it for close to $500 with mass production and direct purchasing. The mass production for Scorpio won't be anywhere near the XB1S numbers though, so $499 is a pretty good prediction for a retail price without taking much of a loss.

The 12GB DDR3 is a bad idea anyway. And can actually reduce performance due to the missmatched capacities. Better off with 8GB or 16GB.
8GB of System memory is enough for PC gaming at the moment... Even if you had 128GB of Ram, you still will not earn a single extra framerate if the game is still only using 6GB or less (Plus a few GB for Windows/other tasks) of memory.

The other caveat is that the PC doesn't reserve 4GB for the OS and background tasks. Windows will be happy with about 1.5GB for itself.

You could shave a good chunk off that build anyway by going with the FX 6300, ditching the optical disk (No one uses them) and having 2x4GB Ram sticks.

I wasn't concerned about how close the part PC would match the Scorpio in direct performance, only the price, without writing a novel about how GDDR5 is more expensive than DDR3 etc,etc. $600 would get you more in the ballpark, so how much cheaper XB could do it for, with direct pricing/purchasing and somewhat mass production is the real question. How much their willing to subsidize would be the next.