Quad Core PC Vs Xbox 360?

360 does not render at 1080p in any decent game that i can rememeber. Pretty much all 360 games are rendered at 720p and upscale to 1080i/1080p.
 
You don't need anywhere near a quad-core processor to play Bioshock since it's GPU-limited. :)

Jono8 said:
360 does not render at 1080p in any decent game that i can rememeber. Pretty much all 360 games are rendered at 720p and upscale to 1080i/1080p.
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Correct. The Xbox 360 can not render 1080 resolution, only upscale it.
 
Jono8 said:
i doubt that .... :confused:
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You doubt XBOX 360 will have many more games than the PC and they will look stunning?

I have news for you it already does have more games comming out for it and they do look stunning! Don't let your love for your PC blinker you to whats happening in the real world ;)

I have a decent rig (sig) and a 360 and there's a lot more to look forward to on the 360. It's gonna be interesting to see what hapens to the PC as a games platform if and when games dry to a trickle after all it's the games that drive expensive hardware buying.

Maybe NVIDIA and ATI will start bringing out games to keep us all buying there GPU's!
 
pumaz said:
I have a decent rig (sig) and a 360 and there's a lot more to look forward to on the 360.
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That's you, not everyone.

Some people use their PCs for things other than gaming, and some people just happen to prefer the games that are exclusive to the PC platform. This does not in any way reflect or contradict what is "happening in real life."
 
Pumaz, what games?

Also yeah, I prefer PC's because you can do a whole lot more, like what i'm doing now without having to use multiples devices.

( This has nothing to do about performance :) )
 
Guys i love PC's to, I have a Macbook (posting from now), Main rig (sig) and the same spec HTPC. But what i'm trying to say is the 360 is a great console that gives a top end PC a run for it's money and as more games comming out for it than the PC. Just because you like PC's you shouldn't dismiss the 360.
 
pumaz said:
Guys i love PC's to, I have a Macbook (posting from now), Main rig (sig) and the same spec HTPC. But what i'm trying to say is the 360 is a great console that gives a top end PC a run for it's money and as more games comming out for it than the PC. Just because you like PC's you shouldn't dismiss the 360.
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you better look again you don't need a top end pc to beat a 360 and you better look at the post about how much some people spent on their 360 and games and such.
 
pc harware getting cheaper apart from videocards like GTX, the prices of quads are cheap as is memory and hd's,same with mb's.
99% of the time as long you not bottlenecking your videocard with a slow cpu or 1 gig memory the most important thing is a videocard for games so you can cut some corners and get a good videocard and it will fly.
The first year or two are almost always good for consoles then pc catches up and over takes it by the end of it life it is way behind a pc.
The 720 and ps4 will have nice specs and more likey over take the pc again.
 
queamin said:
you better look again you don't need a top end pc to beat a 360 and you better look at the post about how much some people spent on their 360 and games and such.
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Unless it's a direct x 10 card. i do not agree. Ive been running both demo's side by side for a good hour (Basically so i know which version i rather have tomorrow) and i can not fault the 360 picture quality and lighting when comparing it to my X1900XT-X. This could just be down to drivers vs a fixed platform but i can honestly say at the moment 9 vs 9 the 360 version looked better to the naked eye. Especially the lighting. This is not a fanboy remark. 100% of my cross platform games have been on the PC but this will be a first for me picking the console version over the PC one.
 
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adam cool dude said:
Unless it's a direct x 10 card. i do not agree. Ive been running both demo's side by side for a good hour (Basically so i know which version i rather have tomorrow) and i can not fault the 360 picture quality and lighting when comparing it to my X1900XT-X. This could just be down to drivers vs a fixed platform but i can honestly say at the moment 9 vs 9 the 360 version looked better to the naked eye. Especially the lighting.
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Yes but your card isn't top end any more really,that my point,i don't really class mine as top end as there is 3or 4 cards above it.
You can put together a good pc with a good videocard quite cheaply
 
queamin said:
Yes but your card isn't top end any more really,that my point,i don't really class mine as top end as there is 3or 4 cards above it
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I know it isn't top end anymore but the 360 isn't top end card either but it looks a hell of a lot better then my X1900XT-X which is comparable to whats inside the 360 (If not better on paper). I also wasn't comparing DX10 vs DX9. It was a straight DX9 vs DX9 comparison. I would also have thought a 10k Raptor hard drive, 2gb of system memory and 512mb of GPU memory would give faster load times then my 360 but it didn't. Going down the first lift in the demo took at least 10 more seconds to load on my PC (Basically the whole splicer scene had finished on the 360 screen when my PC splicer scene had just started)
 
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It doesnot matter what in the 360 that what you buy,when you buy it now.
prices have drop quite a bit for pc hardware and tech moves on what you brought a year ago isnot classed as top end now.
wouldn't class my system at top end but it would hold it own again a 360
 
It feels like a console game not a pc game to me which isn't that bad, i think it just the lay out and how it saves it game,maybe because it is slowed paced to most fps on the pc.
Feels like dues ex 2 to me same feeling of dumbing down rpg stats but could be the graphics not sure but i am compairing it to systemshock 1&2 i still like it a lot.
 
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queamin said:
It doesnot matter what in the 360 that what you buy,when you buy it now.
prices have drop quite a bit for pc hardware and tech moves on what you brought a year ago isnot classed as top end now.
wouldn't class my system at top end but it would hold it own again a 360
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Your not getting my point. My point is how the game looks so much better on a 360 when comparing similar techs and DX versions. I do not doubt a DX10 monster will look better then it does on a 360 but when it looks better then a equal DX9 based GPU which has a whole lot more video memory. Thats what im trying to point out.
 
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adam cool dude said:
Your not getting my point. My point is how the game looks so much better on a 360 when comparing similar techs and DX versions. I do not doubt a DX10 monster will look better then it does on a 360 but when it looks better then a better DX9 based GPU. Thats what im trying to point out.
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360 gpu is a hybrid of dx9+ other stuff so it should look equal or better than the same tech on a pc,until you start to crank up the res and aa/af's on the pc.
 
The GTX been out 9 months it isnot new tech and that can crank up a lot of AA's and AF's at a good res and the next cards out novish are ment to be about double the power.
i am not knocking the 360 but tech moves on fast ,12 months in pc hardware is a long time, next year i wonder if 8 core cpu will be out.
 
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