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DirtyP2002 on 21 June 2013
Viper1 said:
catofellow said:

How much would it cost to build or buy factory built a PC that was comparable in power to the PS4?

CPU: AMD A10-5800 - $130
Mobo: MSI-FM2-A55M - $45
GPU: Sapphire HD 6670 - $50
PSU: SeaSonic SS-300ES - $38
RAM: 4 GB 1866 DDR3 Crucial Ballastix - $36
Case: Gigabyte GZ-F5HEB - $22
OS: Win 7 - $100
Controller: ~$50

Total - ~$471

Faster CPU but fewer cores.
Less RAM but faster for general computing.
No disk drive required (but listed below).

Blu-Ray: LG 12x BD-ROM - $40

 

If you already own a PC, chances are good you could exceed the performance of the PS4 for under $200 in upgrades.


no HDD?



Imagine not having GamePass on your console...

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Pristine20 on 21 June 2013
Pemalite said:
Pristine20 said:
It is not possible at the ps3's price point. Consoles exist for various reasons and the most important of those is providing performance at heavily discounted prices


Actually. If we are to compare it...
The PS4 price will be $550 AUD.
For roughly $600 AUD you can build a respectible gaming machine:
http://i.imgur.com/EHUuLXd.png

Hook it up to your TV and BANG.

Think of the extra $50 as a fee for online access for forever.
You can go cheaper than that if you shop around of course, I was just lazy and couldn't be bothered. (It's from PC Case gear.)

Intel Celeron? Really? Dont know that much about PC specs but that wouldn't strike me as a decent PC. You're also missing the part where a PC has to actually be more powerful to deliver the same performance thanks to less optimization and more bloatware using up resources. Stop reaching, it's not possible especially in the U.S. market where consoles are even cheaper relatively.



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

Pemalite on 21 June 2013
secpierre34 said:


that is more like updating your pc. Builiding a pc from scratch for 400$ wont match the performance of the ps4 period.


I can almost get there with brand-new hardware.
http://i.imgur.com/hlANVsY.png (Newegg.)

However.... You can pick up an Athlon 2 x4 for about $$30.
And to match a socket AM3 motherboard for about $30.
And a Radeon 5870 for about $100.

That's all second hand of course, but that would lower the price to around $385.95.
Cheaper than the PS4, No online fees and games are cheaper.

Hook it up to your TV and go.

Pristine20 said:

Intel Celeron? Really? Dont know that much about PC specs but that wouldn't strike me as a decent PC. You're also missing the part where a PC has to actually be more powerful to deliver the same performance thanks to less optimization and more bloatware using up resources. Stop reaching, it's not possible especially in the U.S. market where consoles are even cheaper relatively.

When consoles actually get serious about CPU performance you might need something more, it can handle Battlefield 3 with 64 players which is more than the current generation can do.

As for your other points, feel free to read my other posts for the explanation on that as I'm not repeating them *again* for the sake of it. :)




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Viper1 on 21 June 2013
DirtyP2002 said:
Viper1 said:
catofellow said:

How much would it cost to build or buy factory built a PC that was comparable in power to the PS4?

CPU: AMD A10-5800 - $130
Mobo: MSI-FM2-A55M - $45
GPU: Sapphire HD 6670 - $50
PSU: SeaSonic SS-300ES - $38
RAM: 4 GB 1866 DDR3 Crucial Ballastix - $36
Case: Gigabyte GZ-F5HEB - $22
OS: Win 7 - $100
Controller: ~$50

Total - ~$471

Faster CPU but fewer cores.
Less RAM but faster for general computing.
No disk drive required (but listed below).

Blu-Ray: LG 12x BD-ROM - $40

 

If you already own a PC, chances are good you could exceed the performance of the PS4 for under $200 in upgrades.


no HDD?

Wow.  That would be a problem.

Fixed.



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Pristine20 on 21 June 2013
Pemalite said:
secpierre34 said:


that is more like updating your pc. Builiding a pc from scratch for 400$ wont match the performance of the ps4 period.


I can almost get there with brand-new hardware.
http://i.imgur.com/hlANVsY.png (Newegg.)

However.... You can pick up an Athlon 2 x4 for about $$30.
And to match a socket AM3 motherboard for about $30.
And a Radeon 5870 for about $100.

That's all second hand of course, but that would lower the price to around $385.95.
Cheaper than the PS4, No online fees and games are cheaper.

Hook it up to your TV and go.

Pristine20 said:

Intel Celeron? Really? Dont know that much about PC specs but that wouldn't strike me as a decent PC. You're also missing the part where a PC has to actually be more powerful to deliver the same performance thanks to less optimization and more bloatware using up resources. Stop reaching, it's not possible especially in the U.S. market where consoles are even cheaper relatively.

When consoles actually get serious about CPU performance you might need something more, it can handle Battlefield 3 with 64 players which is more than the current generation can do.

As for your other points, feel free to read my other posts for the explanation on that as I'm not repeating them *again* for the sake of it. :)

Thought we were talking about next gen consoles? You're also forgetting that a PC is used for other things besides gaming. Nobody getting a PC for games is going to go with the celeron. Let's not kid ourselves.



"Dr. Tenma, according to you, lives are equal. That's why I live today. But you must have realised it by now...the only thing people are equal in is death"---Johann Liebert (MONSTER)

"WAR is a racket. It always has been.

It is possibly the oldest, easily the most profitable, surely the most vicious. It is the only one international in scope. It is the only one in which the profits are reckoned in dollars and the losses in lives"---Maj. Gen. Smedley Butler

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Pemalite on 21 June 2013
Pristine20 said:

Thought we were talking about next gen consoles? You're also forgetting that a PC is used for other things besides gaming. Nobody getting a PC for games is going to go with the celeron. Let's not kid ourselves.


If you're on a budget, you don't really have a choice, besides the GPU influences gaming performance far more than any other piece of hardware.
Also you have the second hand market too if you don't want the Celery.




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Turkish on 21 June 2013
m0ney said:
Turkish said:
Good, now you know you cant build a comparable pc for 400 bucks.


Are you kidding my 4 year old pc with updated videocard puts out twice more teraflops than the next gen consoles behhehe I love consoles just saying.


Did you buy it for 400 bucks? no



Turkish on 21 June 2013
Viper1 said:
catofellow said:

How much would it cost to build or buy factory built a PC that was comparable in power to the PS4?

CPU: AMD A10-5800 - $130
Mobo: MSI-FM2-A55M - $45
GPU: Sapphire HD 6670 - $50
HDD: 500 GB Toshiba - $50
PSU: SeaSonic SS-300ES - $38
RAM: 4 GB 1866 DDR3 Crucial Ballastix - $36
Case: Gigabyte GZ-F5HEB - $22
OS: Win 7 - $100
Controller: ~$50

Total - ~$521

Faster CPU but fewer cores.
Less RAM but faster for general computing.
No disk drive required (but listed below).

Blu-Ray: LG 12x BD-ROM - $40

 

If you already own a PC, chances are good you could exceed the performance of the PS4 for under $200 in upgrades.


That hd 6670 gpu is nowhere close to whats inside the ps4.



Viper1 on 21 June 2013
Turkish said:
Viper1 said:
catofellow said:

How much would it cost to build or buy factory built a PC that was comparable in power to the PS4?

CPU: AMD A10-5800 - $130
Mobo: MSI-FM2-A55M - $45
GPU: Sapphire HD 6670 - $50
HDD: 500 GB Toshiba - $50
PSU: SeaSonic SS-300ES - $38
RAM: 4 GB 1866 DDR3 Crucial Ballastix - $36
Case: Gigabyte GZ-F5HEB - $22
OS: Win 7 - $100
Controller: ~$50

Total - ~$521

Faster CPU but fewer cores.
Less RAM but faster for general computing.
No disk drive required (but listed below).

Blu-Ray: LG 12x BD-ROM - $40

 

If you already own a PC, chances are good you could exceed the performance of the PS4 for under $200 in upgrades.


That hd 6670 gpu is nowhere close to whats inside the ps4.

I guess you don't realize that it is being paired up with the HD 7760D inside that AMD A10 APU?



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JerCotter7 on 21 June 2013
Turkish said:
m0ney said:
Turkish said:
Good, now you know you cant build a comparable pc for 400 bucks.


Are you kidding my 4 year old pc with updated videocard puts out twice more teraflops than the next gen consoles behhehe I love consoles just saying.


Did you buy it for 400 bucks? no

Do you have a gaming PC?