God's Evil Twin
Right so it's time for the PC fanboy club to prove themselves... I keep getting told you can build a PC to match a console at a console price, lets see if that's true.
Rules are simple - you don't need to incl the case, keyboard/mouse or screen, it must meet or exceed the performance of a PS4, 1080 is fine & it must be under 550$ so whatcha got???
Science Is But An Organized System Of Ignorance"Pornography: The thing with billions of views that nobody watches" - WhiteManBehindADesk
Hardcore Biker
You'll be hardpressed to find something decent for $550 or less.
Here is an example of a complete system I was looking at building a month or so ago from Computer Lounge in Auckland.
The Majestic Metal Wizard
Does your case have a PSU - if so what Wattage (or at least what model)Originally Posted by Scuba_Steve
That will determine what we can play with - $550 NZD might be a bit of a stretch, but I reckon I can get pretty close to the ball park for a PC that will play games at similar FPS to Console
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
Hardcore Biker
You can, but it's not worth it as it won't play any decent PC games
Consoles suffer from capped/lower framerates, and smaller players in multiplayer online games.
The sentiment is that you can actually build a PC that will blow a console out of the water CPU/GPU wise, without spending that much money. Especially when you factor in the cost of games/periphials.
God's Evil Twin
No PSU, I have nothing.
I just keep getting told that I should go back to PC gaming as you can build a PC for the same price as a console
(I used to game PC & Console and waste money on vehicles & paintball... needless to say this all cost LOTS of cash moneys so I dropped PC gaming awhile back to save some)
So far I'm not seeing this price equality, seems from what I'm looking we're talking at-least 2x the price to get equivalent. But thought I'd throw it out there to see if I'm looking wrong but so far still seems we're talking 1-1.5k for a PC (guess it's still cheaper than the 2-3k it used to be)
Science Is But An Organized System Of Ignorance"Pornography: The thing with billions of views that nobody watches" - WhiteManBehindADesk
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Get 8 beaglebones and raid them together...
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
Hardcore Biker
That's because you're comparing apples to oranges.
May as well compare a smartphone to a laptop.
KB's Chief Cats
steam os, geexbox.
Eat your heart out.
The Majestic Metal Wizard
I'm going to say this as a very proud and staunch PC gamer:
Getting a gaming PC for the SAME price as a Console is very difficult (can be done if using second hand parts), although if you assume you have a Case, a PSU, Monitor, Kb/Mouse - then I reckon I get a setup that will play games at Console quality and get pretty close to $550 (would be cheaper if I didn't go for an SSD):
but that said - for a small increase in price ($2-300) you can go from a rig that will play at Console quality to a rig that will be good for gaming
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
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It's just NZ pricing anyways init? go to newegg or whatevs and see what a console equivalent costs.
I'm going to say this as a member of the #pcmasterrace to the OP, a console peasant.
You don't buy a gaming PC to do console peasantry on different hardware; you buy one to pull yourself out of the juvenile slums of xbox live and playstation what-ever-the-fuck-it-is-called. To scoff when somebody calls 1080p 'high definition', to click on heads as opposed to vaguely moving a stick until the playbox clicks on the head for you.
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
Of an enviable height
Anyone claiming that doesn't understand economies of scale.
You can't even get an NUC for that much with RAM/drive included*. Let alone something with dedicated gfx.
However you can buy a PC for say $1100 which I reckon would approximately double the gaming performance of a console and do a whole bunch of other stuff to boot.
*Except a Celeron which is shit.
"It's hard to keep an open mind, when so many people are trying to put things in it"
The Majestic Metal Wizard
Well, yes - but that wasn't the challenge.
Now bring forth Mine Keyboard! The Peasants are in need of repressing!
Physics; Thou art a cruel, heartless Bitch-of-a-Mistress
Of an enviable height
Then let them eat 60fps
"It's hard to keep an open mind, when so many people are trying to put things in it"
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Of course sir, and what colors would you like to complement your represive mood today?
"A shark on whiskey is mighty risky, but a shark on beer is a beer engineer" - Tad Ghostal
God's Evil Twin
GFX card would still be severly lacking in that build, but does confirm it can't be done. CheersI'm going to say this as a very proud and staunch PC gamer:
Getting a gaming PC for the SAME price as a Console is very difficult (can be done if using second hand parts), although if you assume you have a Case, a PSU, Monitor, Kb/Mouse - then I reckon I get a setup that will play games at Console quality and get pretty close to $550 (would be cheaper if I didn't go for an SSD):
but that said - for a small increase in price ($2-300) you can go from a rig that will play at Console quality to a rig that will be good for gaming
Think the closest has been 'The Ends' build which is what I was expecting
Ignorant fool, the "PC master race" is nothing but snobby peasants. True gaming gods like I used to be are not restricted in choice of games due to system restriction... We play what we like!
Do they still sell them??? They were shit the day they entered the market
Science Is But An Organized System Of Ignorance"Pornography: The thing with billions of views that nobody watches" - WhiteManBehindADesk
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