GTX 460 vs PS3 Graphics

[Mr Krugga]

 

[Liampope]

I was gonna say I'd be astonished if you can't to even better than a 460 for £1200, and Mr Krugga proves it! Good spec. You say it's primarily a gaming rig, though you want to do some audio recordings. Depending on what exactly you mean by 'some home audio recording', I wouldn't let that dictate the choice of components totally. Anything could do some audio recording to be honest, so if gaming is important, skew the balance of the budget more towards a decent GPU. For example you could take Mr Krugga's build there but go i5 4GB and get an even better GPU solution - like 460 SLI or ATI.

 

[atmax1]

I own both the ps3 and xbox 360 and never use them now, the 460 will be a huge inprovement in modern games.

I think i read you have £1200 to spend? If so that should cover a GTX470

 

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

The PS3 uses a something like 7900gtx so no comparison!

As I mentioned above, it doesn't really work like that.

Yeah. After 5 years of practice they get pretty damn good at coding for that crappy old hardware. Compare the release ps2 games to the newest ones, and it doesn't look like they're on the same console.

 

[Pulse]

^ To the spec above, I think you have a few things very wrong.

1. Where is the PSU?
2. Where is the decent CPU cooler? That spec and you're expecting him to run on stock cooling?
3. Why have you included a sound card when presumably he'll be using HDMI which the 470 probably has audio over HDMI so has no need for it.

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OcUK Value GeForce GTX 470 1280MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £223.24
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Corsair H50-1 High-Performance CPU Watercooler (Socket LGA775/1156/1366/AM2/AM3) £59.98
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Sub Total : £988.66
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Total : £1,174.01

 

[Cycrow]

which spec are you talking about ?

 

[Pulse]

I was referring to atmax1's spec, but he has removed it now.

 

[mame]

Yeah. After 5 years of practice they get pretty damn good at coding for that crappy old hardware. Compare the release ps2 games to the newest ones, and it doesn't look like they're on the same console.

That's very true. Even the Super Nintendo was the same. some of the later games were very impressive but overshadowed by PS1 by this point. I'm not sure if you're saying that as a positive of negative for the consoles but to me it's a positive.

 

[ThomasTheTankEngine]

That's very true. Even the Super Nintendo was the same. some of the later games were very impressive but overshadowed by PS1 by this point. I'm not sure if you're saying that as a positive of negative for the consoles but to me it's a positive.

Well it's both really. It's a shame that console users are locked to old hardware without much chance of an upgrades, but on a plus side programmers getting more efficient is always a good thing considering the trend at the moment for bloated, inefficient software code.

 

[3t3P]

I was shocked when I played uncharted 2 on my mates PS3, made me think differently about consoles as it looked really great imo. We just get console ports anyways nowadays. The advantage PC has is you can run 1080p resolutions and be near the screen, in the action, and for FPS its just unrivaled using mouse and KB.

 

[marc512]

this thread feels like a "PCvPS3 " thread.