Xbox One X PC Build: Can you do it for $500?

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Mr Puggsly said:

Captain_Yuri said:

Except... They are designed with general purpose on mind and not just gaming stuff where as console APUs are designed with gaming in mind and not just general purpose stuff. When intel creates an i7, it can be used for video rendering, gaming, photoshop, coding, and tons of other things. When MS/Sony asks Amd to make console APUs, they only have one thing in mind... Gaming...

Again, comparison continues to be silly and pretty much nonsense

Well you arent gonna do clerical work on a console but they do more than gaming.

Anywho, not all PCs are NOT designed for upgrades these days. They make compact PCs about the size of X1 or much smaller. Yet none of them have decent APU like a modern console.

Its not a silly argument, some of these Steam machines were designed without the ability to upgrade much. But they suck and are expensive because there isnt a good/cheap gaming APU in that market. I find it odd thats the case consideribg modern consoles are basically a x86 PC.

The silly argument isn't that there shouldn't be good PC APU for gaming, the silly argument is comparing and xbox one x to an i7 and saying that cause the i7's GPU isn't very good at gaming, the xbox one x is far more impressive which again, ignores the reason why the i7 is built the way it is and why the xbox one x is built the way it is.

I again, agree that if you compare the xbox one x to the pc apus like the AMD A10 series, the xbox one "crushes" those and it's impressive. But comparing it to an i7 is just silly because the AMD A10 apus are the ones that are trying to be purposed as "budget gaming" APUs while the i7s are not...

And yea, steam machines are a mess, that's why most people don't buy them. If an APU like the one on the Scorpio existed on PC, it would be kinda bad cause of how important CPU performance is to PC so having such a jaguar CPU + a strong GPU setup wouldn't work very well. However, it might be finally happen with Ryzen APUs but we will see.

What I am trying to get at is... Comparing xbox one x to Amd A10 APUs on PC makes sense because those two are built to have a similar purpose. But comparing an i7 to xbox one x is just silly.