Is it me, or are the console morons are good at throwing random numbers out of their **** (mouth)? I built a gaming pc, that is highly overclockable, plays every game at top notch, and comes with a nice big LCD monitor to play games at high resolution. It cost me 1K Canadian (for a friend).
Specs:
Intel E6550
2x1gig PC6400 Patriot Extreme Memory
Asus P5K P35 motherboard
EVGA 8800gts 640mb edition
Acer 22' LCD HDMI PC monitor
Chaintech AV-710 audio card (not best, but good enough for analog, and the fact that it takes off stress off the CPU).
Antec Sanata 3 w/ Antec 500w Earthwatt PSU
Pioneer Dual layer DVD burner.
Got all the parts on sale, and free shipping. Great system, my friend is having tons of fun. As he sold his Xbox 360 cause he did not even need it anymore, as he agreed it could not performe as well as this.
You need to understand, that the consoles are stuck at a constant 30fps for tv wise (that is why it looks like poop on monitors usually) and they are only capable of running decently with today's games. I noticed with playing both consoles, side by side (my uncle, whom is a nerd) and I noticed that games such as "the Darkness" and Gears of war, would dip below 30fps when things get heavy. That is not a good sign, it shows that we already reached the consoles limit, unlike the Xbox, which took a while, till Halo 2 to come out, to really show the xbox's potential.
Also, PC's will allow you to adjust it to your liking, so that means high AA and AF, high resolution, and awsome graphics. You can also make things look better, outside of the game, with modified drivers and such. Also, you can modify the hardware yourself, like I did when I volt modded my 7900gs xt.
If you want a good gaming PC, without paying much, just build it yourself, or have places like Newegg or NCIX build it for you, and usually they charge only 25 bucks for it too.
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