Anyone have any extra parts they will let go of for cheap? Trying to piece together a gaming PC for a friends kid. Doesn't need anything too fancy. Would like for it to be able to support Fortnite or similar.
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That's silly, console gaming is the most economical and the best known experience. It doesn't require chasing the next best part to meet an arbitrary expectation, it has exponentially lower rate of cheating that breaks the game's experience.
I get that you can have visuals on a pc that can't be had on a console, but at what cost?
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Originally posted by Tx Redneck View PostThat's silly, console gaming is the most economical and the best known experience. It doesn't require chasing the next best part to meet an arbitrary expectation, it has exponentially lower rate of cheating that breaks the game's experience.
I get that you can have visuals on a pc that can't be had on a console, but at what cost?
Most my my PC is several generations old, and can still play games like PUBG on ultra 1440. With a video card as the exception, I haven't purchased anything new for my PC in a few years.
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Originally posted by Tx Redneck View PostWhat I mean by best known experience is, you can buy a game, any game for that console and know its gonna play well, no jumping through settings hoops, it's going to play as good on your console as every other console.
They are bringing mouse+kb support to Xbone soon, fwiw.
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Originally posted by Tx Redneck View PostThat's silly, console gaming is the most economical and the best known experience. It doesn't require chasing the next best part to meet an arbitrary expectation, it has exponentially lower rate of cheating that breaks the game's experience.
I get that you can have visuals on a pc that can't be had on a console, but at what cost?
That's something of a misconception. I can still run just about anything balls to the wall, on my GTX 970 and an overclocked 3570k. I doubt there is anything out there right now that I couldn't run on all max settings just fine. There's too many variables to bother getting caught up in the considerations of chasing the best hardware. For example: Only just recently, has intel come out with a processor that is essentially 2x my old 3570k. All the rest of that time: Not even close to being worth it to upgrade.
All that said, if you just get a mid range card (so now the 1070) and a half decent processor, you're good for just as long as any console is good for. If not longer. With few exceptions. Yeah every once in awhile the programmers suck or the company gets lazy, and a poorly optimized game comes out that requires $2k worth of graphics cards to run on max. Their incompetence isn't worth factoring in. And sure, every once in awhile I need to turn off a setting so my 4 year old 970 can run the game smoothly. I still get to keep all the rest on, and it still looks better than the console game.
But the whole debate is pointless cause its apples to oranges. Consoles have their place if you want to play games and save money. If you really want to play games, and you can spend more money, then you want a gaming PC.WH
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Originally posted by Tx Redneck View PostThat's silly, console gaming is the most economical and the best known experience. It doesn't require chasing the next best part to meet an arbitrary expectation, it has exponentially lower rate of cheating that breaks the game's experience.
I get that you can have visuals on a pc that can't be had on a console, but at what cost?
Learning to use a pc is very beneficial to more than just gaming.sigpic
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