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| Meat187 |
I'm in need of some advice:
I plan to either buy a PS3 or a decent PC for gaming. Currently I'm leaning more towards the PC, but a PS3 could be used with my TV instead of the small monitor and is cheaper.
So which one would you say I should pick? And if I buy a PC, what should I buy? Graphics card, processor, etc. I don't need something absolutely high end, but newer games should run smoothly on it. What would it cost? |
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| Joss Weatherby |
A decent new gaming PC will be around 1500USD.
Obviously that is more than a PS3, but you can also do a lot more with a PC.
Depends really one what sort of games you play. If you play FPS than a PC is always a better choice. If you play more platformers or action games than a console is usually better. |
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| DancingMonkey |
PS3 = Pay 15 dollars for five new maps on Call Of Duty MW2. 3 of which are ports of MW1 maps.
PC = Get that map pack and MW2 free.
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Obviously that is more than a PS3, but you can also do a lot more with a PC.
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Note that I already have a Laptop that's good enough for everything else, so I don't actually need a PC to do anything else.
Crap, seems like I underestimated the price. :(
Oh, and I'm not into shooters that much. Much more interested in Survival Horror stuff, a decent role playing game maybe some strategy games and things like that. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
Note that I already have a Laptop that's good enough for everything else, so I don't actually need a PC to do anything else.
Crap, seems like I underestimated the price. :( |
Eh a PC is still going to outclass a laptop in a number of ways. |
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| Banora |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
A decent new gaming PC will be around 1500USD.
Obviously that is more than a PS3, but you can also do a lot more with a PC.
Depends really one what sort of games you play. If you play FPS than a PC is always a better choice. If you play more platformers or action games than a console is usually better. |
This in pretty much every way.
I used to be hardcore PC-only when it came to my serious gaming, but now I neither have the time nor money constantly modifying my computer to keep up. Not to mention: PS3 has a kick-ass Bluray player. |
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| Meat187 |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
Eh a PC is still going to outclass a laptop in a number of ways. |
Sure, but would I need any of them? I don't think so.
| quote: | Originally posted by Banora
Not to mention: PS3 has a kick-ass Bluray player. |
Yep, but I don't have a single Blu-ray and don't plan to buy some. |
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| Cpt.Cocaine |
| quote: | Originally posted by Joss Weatherby
A decent new gaming PC will be around 1500USD.
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That's if you're one of those idiots who constantly need to have every setting maxed even when you can't notice the difference, with a higher res than you can even make out.
On the other hand, the 600$ PC I bought 4 years ago (including monitor and everything), is only just starting to show it's age.
There's this misconception that to do gaming on a pc you need to constantly buy costly upgrades, but the fact is that current game engines have changed very little in the last 5 years or so. |
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| Joss Weatherby |
| quote: | Originally posted by Cpt.Cocaine
That's if you're one of those idiots who constantly need to have every setting maxed even when you can't notice the difference, with a higher res than you can even make out.
On the other hand, the 600$ PC I bought 4 years ago (including monitor and everything), is only just starting to show it's age.
There's this misconception that to do gaming on a pc you need to constantly buy costly upgrades, but the fact is that current game engines have changed very little in the last 5 years or so. |
You've obviously never played ArmA2 :p |
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| Scottaculous |
| The only idiots who still pay over $1000 for a desktop are Apple users. |
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| infinity HiGH |
| quote: | Originally posted by Meat187
I'm in need of some advice:
I plan to either buy a PS3 or a decent PC for gaming. Currently I'm leaning more towards the PC, but a PS3 could be used with my TV instead of the small monitor and is cheaper.
So which one would you say I should pick? And if I buy a PC, what should I buy? Graphics card, processor, etc. I don't need something absolutely high end, but newer games should run smoothly on it. What would it cost? |
My PC runs the newest games (eg. Mass Effect 2, Modern Warfare 2) without a problem and it's an older system. My vid card is a Geforce 9800GT (that's like 4 years old) and my CPU is a Core2 Duo 8500 (not too sure about the CPU, but it's something close to that and that's at least 3 years old).
You DO NOT need to spend insane amounts of money to get a good gaming PC these days. I paid $600 for the case, CPU, motherboard and RAM. With the video card it would come out to around $825. Mind you, I paid like $160 for the case itself. |
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