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Geforce GTX 780, 770 coming in May

Marine-RX179 said:
And you are forgetting something...graphic card alone doesn't play games...people need to spend money for the rest of the system as well.
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and you're forgetting that most people need or want a PC anyway, so the addition of game specific hardware is the bit that many people focus on

to quote myself and the articles I found recently - the console gaming market is currently worth something like 9bn per year, the PC gaming market 20bn
(not including hardware on either side)

people have been claiming x or y is going to be the death of PC gaming for the last 10 years or more, yet it still manages to carve out a massive niche for itself
 
Rusty0611 said:
Especially when console will access at a low level rather than through Windows/DirectX
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Direct to the metal coding does give consoles an advantage, however this is the first time consoles will launch and already be outdated in terms of comparison to PC's. I.e PC's will outpace the PS4 / Xbox 720 far quicker than they did the Xbox 1 and Xbox 360.

Was confirmed that the Demo's of Unreal Engine 4 on PS4 hardware shown were already using watered down versions of the PC counterpart. The PS4 version had to be 'optimized' with reduction in quality to run the same demo.. Shows that PC is already ahead, and the PS4 isn't even out yet. The future is the Steam Box / Steam PC I tells ya..

it is startling just how much better the graphics are on the PC.
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http://www.extremetech.com/gaming/1...oks-much-better-on-the-pc-compared-to-the-ps4
 
LtMatt said:
The pc version looks better but not that much better after watching the video.
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point being, here we are still 6 months away from actual release, and the PC is already ahead
when the last gen of consoles were released they were pretty much on par with PC's at the time, this gen they are 6-12 months behind before they are even released

the only good thing about the next gen of consoles will hopefully be that the larger memory size will push the devs to create proper high res textures which will then also be available to PC's with the higher VRAM amounts
 
The problem here is:
-- Basing this on 1 demo
-- The console isn't out yet, so not much to go on other than the specs
-- How much is the PS4 going to be? Let's say it's £450 for example. Show me a compact PC for £450 that is better than the PS4? (including Bluray drive).

It's like comparing apples to oranges. We're talking about 2 different types of machines here. I'm not entirely sure that many PC gamers would move from PC to console but i would think that less people would be inclined to start getting involved in PC gaming from console.
 
Why would you include a Bluray Drive in the price?

Like you said, it's Apple's to oranges somewhat but that line IS becoming MASSIVELY blurred. We are so very close to EVERYTHING being the same between a Console and PC except form factor, control scheme and operating system.

Hardware wise consoles are becoming PCs.
 
Rossi~ said:
The problem here is:
-- Basing this on 1 demo
-- The console isn't out yet, so not much to go on other than the specs
-- How much is the PS4 going to be? Let's say it's £450 for example. Show me a compact PC for £450 that is better than the PS4? (including Bluray drive).

It's like comparing apples to oranges. We're talking about 2 different types of machines here. I'm not entirely sure that many PC gamers would move from PC to console but i would think that less people would be inclined to start getting involved in PC gaming from console.
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Build a BlueRay PC from scratch with HD 7850 level GFX for £450

DVD/BR: £50
Case: £40
PSU: £50
MOBO: £60
CPU: £90
HDD: £50
Radeon 7850 2GB: £150
Mouse / Keyboard: £40

-£530, And if you want to go Intel add a bit more. if you want to go Intel and Overclock it add a lot more.
 
Sin_Chase said:
We are so very close to EVERYTHING being the same between a Console and PC except form factor, control scheme and operating system.

Hardware wise consoles are becoming PCs.
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Didn't this happen when the first Xbox launched with a Pentium III CPU, A GeForce 3 GPU, DDR ram, IDE HDD/DVD-ROM, etc.
 
So no custom cooler versions on release? I wonder how long we will have to wait for them?

When the GTX 670 was released last year, at least we had custom versions on release. :(

Will be looking at purchasing a GTX 780.
 
humbug said:
Build a BlueRay PC from scratch with HD 7850 level GFX for £450

DVD/BR: £50
Case: £40
PSU: £50
MOBO: £60
CPU: £90
HDD: £50
Radeon 7850 2GB: £150
Mouse / Keyboard: £40

-£530, And if you want to go Intel add a bit more. if you want to go Intel and Overclock it add a lot more.
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Just for the gits and shiggles, to show it can be done.

I reckon if you went for the crossfire option with the A10 5800k it would be another £60 cheaper and probably faster still.

YOUR BASKET
1 x HIS HD 7850 1024MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card (H785F1G2M) £143.99
1 x AMD A10-5800K Black Edition 3.80GHz (Socket FM2) APU Trinity Quad Core Processor **FREE SIMCITY PC GAME** (AD580KWOHJBOX) £99.95
1 x Seagate Barracuda 7200RPM 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 64MB Cache - OEM (ST1000DM003) HDD £49.99
1 x MSI A55M-E33 AMD A55 Chipset (Socket FM2) DDR3 Micro ATX Motherboard £40.99
1 x Liteon IHOS104-06 4x BD-ROM (Black) - OEM £34.99
1 x OCZ CoreXtreme 500w '80 Plus' Power Supply £32.99
1 x Xigmatek Asgard II Midi Tower Case - Black £26.99
1 x Gigabyte KM6150 Keyboard and Mouse Set £9.98
Total : £439.87 (includes shipping : FREE).

 
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