Pc or next gen console

Get both?
I just dropped around £500 on my first PC upgrade in a number of years salvaging what i could form my old PC (Which im going to rebuild this weekend in an old case with some spare parts ready to off load on my neice fro her birthday)

When Microsoft get round to letting out the NeXtBox or whatever they call it, ill pick one up on release as well unless its insanely expensive.
 
The new xbox is likely to roughly match top-end systems for graphics performance. Or at least, based on the xbox 360 it will: the 360 launched with 512MB graphics ram, 500MHz graphics - roughly equivalent to the 7800GTX which was about the fastest GPU commonly used.

In terms of CPU the xbox was roughly equivalent to mainstream CPUs, too - 3.2GHz tri-core powerpc, at a time when the 3.4GHz Pentium 4 was popular (the P4 being faster clock-for-clock, before multi-core became popular)

If the new xbox follows a similar theme, it will be about as fast as an i5 with something like a 7950, for about 1/2 to 1/3 of the price - but it will still be slower (or just not able to be used) for anything other than gaming/TV, and you have no upgrade path.

The Running Man - price isn't important in this case, as Microsoft doesn't just buy PC-grade graphics cards and whack them in an xbox. The xbox 360 at launch cost approximately the same as the 7800GTX (£250-300) which it matched in performance.
 
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When new consoles are released they are generally on par if not better then the current gen gamer pc at the time, with regards to gaming. But normally with in about 6 months the pc has caught up and gone back in front.
 
With more and more games being poorly ported to the PC I can see why PC gamers are resorting to consoles. Still playing FPS on consoles is just plain horrible!
 
Audigex said:
The new xbox is likely to roughly match top-end systems for graphics performance. Or at least, based on the xbox 360 it will: the 360 launched with 512MB graphics ram, 500MHz graphics - roughly equivalent to the 7800GTX which was about the fastest GPU commonly used.

In terms of CPU the xbox was roughly equivalent to mainstream CPUs, too - 3.2GHz tri-core powerpc, at a time when the 3.4GHz Pentium 4 was popular (the P4 being faster clock-for-clock, before multi-core became popular)

If the new xbox follows a similar theme, it will be about as fast as an i5 with something like a 7950, for about 1/2 to 1/3 of the price - but it will still be slower (or just not able to be used) for anything other than gaming/TV, and you have no upgrade path.

The Running Man - price isn't important in this case, as Microsoft doesn't just buy PC-grade graphics cards and whack them in an xbox. The xbox 360 at launch cost approximately the same as the 7800GTX (£250-300) which it matched in performance.
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ok thanks, hopefully it dosent kill pc gaming if its that spec with half the price :O
 
trialsiain said:
ok thanks, hopefully it dosent kill pc gaming if its that spec with half the price :O
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Never. PC gaming will always be ahead. Sure it might match performance, however it's limited to 30fps - isn't really hard to get today's games playing at 25-30fps is it?
 
The xbox 720 is more than likely going to ship with a 6670.

So, yeah, laughable.

Edit: You're genuinely peeing in the wind if you think any console will be shipping with a 7950 for at least the next 5 years.
 
It won't kill PC gaming any more than the last generation did at half the price with a similar spec.

It might be cheaper, but it can't do a lot of things a PC can do, and it will be outdated within a year of launch as new GPUs come out. Consoles also just can't do MMORPGs, big strategy games etc, or the really big epic world/graphic PC games, any justice whatsoever - think Crysis, Farcry etc.

PC gaming has struggled recently, but seems to have levelled out in as much as CoD, Fifa etc have stripped away certain types of game, but the others are remaining fairly strong.
 
ok thanks people, So will a gtx 660, i5 3570 and 4gb of ram be good enough for a few years ? i have an xbox just now so when new ones come out i might buy them and sell old one
 
elrasho said:
Still playing FPS on consoles is just plain horrible!
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That's why i have gone back to PC, BF3 was horrible on console (as is playing with randoms). Also you can get games a lot cheaper.

It'll be interesting to see if they crackdown on the 2nd hand market.
 
trialsiain said:
ok thanks people, So will a gtx 660, i5 3570 and 4gb of ram be good enough for a few years ? i have an xbox just now so when new ones come out i might buy them and sell old one
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You want the 7850 or even better the 7950 and cop the free games. The nvidia 660 is meh for the price.

If you haven't already, check out the steam webpage/client. It's like Xbox live but NO subscription fee :D

If you want we can spec you a mini-itx rig in the prodigy case if you want something small. You'll see videos on youtube where people use XBMC as a front end to playback videos and launch steam or other programs......all this can be done from an Xbox pad ;)
 
honosuseri said:
You want the 7850 or even better the 7950 and cop the free games. The nvidia 660 is meh for the price.

If you haven't already, check out the steam webpage/client. It's like Xbox live but NO subscription fee :D

If you want we can spec you a mini-itx rig in the prodigy case if you want something small. You'll see videos on youtube where people use XBMC as a front end to playback videos and launch steam or other programs......all this can be done from an Xbox pad ;)
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ok cheers, is an fsp power supply 450 w good (cheap one ) ? and i heard bad things about amd? something about drivers confusing
 
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