Re: Why PC Games look better than 360 games.
- From: "Swam Mollen" <bigboobs_linda@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: 9 Mar 2006 13:43:49 -0800
Dan wrote:
For gaming, AMD's dual core chips are significantly faster than Intel's.
Therefore if your primary focus is gaming, you'd want an AMD chip.The system
you are talking about does not cost 40000$, but probably around 4000$
(including a Dell 24" 2405fpw) The ATI X1900XTX can be had for ~500$, which
is a bit more than an X360 premium, but not 2X.
Oh come on, it's obvious it was a typo, $4000 is cheap compared to the
latest Alienware ALX systems.
Their top end model starts at $6000 and that excludes a decent sound
card.
Pricing one up with a Quad SLI GF 7900GTX each with 512mb RAM, Alien
Ice liquid cooling, 2gb ram, Athlon X2 FX60, 500gb HDD, Sound Blaster
X-Fi Extreme edition etc, will come in at close to $8000. Go and price
it up yourself.
Even their cheapest Alienware BOT with X700 graphics card and 1gb of
RAM and a 160 gig hard drive costs over $1000. And nobody in their
right mind would consider that a graphical beast capable of blasting
the 360 or PS3 out of the water.
"Swam Mollen" <bigboobs_linda@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
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Yes, that's right, I'm siding with Bliggety here.
THe truth is, if you have an unlimited budget, of course they will look
better.
Take a Dual Crossfire X1900XTX with either an Intel Extreme Edition
Pentium 4 Dual Core running at 3.4ghz, or a AMD Athlon FX60, with 2
gigs of Low latency Corsair ram, a fast hard drive, a Sound Blaster XFI
Fatal1ty, a nice 20-30 inch Flat Panel, and a set of decent speakers,
and you have one AWESOME system.
Pretty much anything thrown at it will run sweeeeeet.
The downside? It's going to cost in excess of $40000.
That's 10x the cost of a 360 for a small gain in graphical detail.
Jesus. Wept.
The truth is, that that is also just the TOP END of what developers
will aim for. You take a screen-shot of a PC game, it's running on the
top end system.
Then compare it to the average users PC say, a Geforce 6800 single card
on a single core P4 3.0 and a built in sound card, with a 17" square
TFT, and you're more likely to have lower polys and fewer special
effects than the average XBOX 360 game.
THe thing is, unlike console games, the developers leave it to the end
user to tweak the game features to their hardware. On the Console, it's
done for you, they optimise and code around the limitations.
So, you can upgrade your PC. But a SINGLE X1900 XTX card costs TWICE
that of a XBOX 360!! The FX60 is TWICE THAT OF A 360!
So for the price of an upgrade, you can buy yourself a 360 with a
selection of games, and the price of the CPU and RAM you can buy a
decent HDTV to play them all on.
So yes, bliggety, Oblivion and GRAW WILL look sweeter on the PC. But
who's PC? Bill Gate's Extreme Fidelity Uber Quad SLI Bankbreaker? Or my
lowly Radeon Pro 97000 Single core Prescott 3.0 P4 based PC?
I'l take the 360 version please.
.
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