PS3 or Xbox 360?

[Sharma]

I do have to say as an self contradiction to my PS3 bashing, I know I will end up buying one since I was spitting flames about the old Xbox for a long while because I already had a PS2.

There some games I just won't be able to go on without playing (Namely Final Fantasy 13).

And i'll have a WIi too, I ended up in the same situation in the last period where I ended up with a GC, Xbox and PS2, much like above, some games you cannot miss are exclusives on all consoles.

I just wub my 360, it's the sex.

 

[Castus]

Item Short Code Price
Intel Core 2 Duo E6420 (2.13Ghz) Socket 775 FSB1066 4MB Cache Retail Boxed Processor 126906 £138.09
Seagate 160GB Hard Drive ATA 7200rpm 2MB Cache - OEM 131271 £28.02
Corsair 2GB Kit (2x1GB) DDR2 800MHz/PC2-6400 XMS2 Memory Non-ECC Unbuffered CL4(4-4-4-12) E.P.P. Heat Spreader Lifetime Warranty 111439 £39.62
Foxconn 975X7AB-8EKRS2H Socket 775 I975X DDR2 PCI-E ATX 126692 £45.50
LiteOn LH-20A1S 20X SATA DVD±RW/DL Black Bare Drive - OEM 127410 £13.30
Gainward BLISS 8600GT 1024MB DDR2 Dual DVI HDCP HDTV out PCI-E Graphics Card 139085 £85.10
Casecom Black Midi Tower Case With Front Panel LCD - No PSU 119590 £8.20
Arctic Power 500W PSU With PCI-E SATA, 20+4 ATX12V 8pin +12V Connectors - Retail Boxed 124922 £21.26
Zalman ZM-STG1 Thermal Grease 125310 £3.32
AKASA 80mm Amber series 3 pin Ultra quiet case fan 97857 £9.87
Plexus Kettle Type Power Lead 2m 131549 £1.41
Microsoft Business Hardware Pack - Black/Silver Wired Keyboard with Black Wired Optical Mouse - PS/2-USB 108204 £17.44
Acer AL1916 19" TFT Monitor 500:1 270cd/m2 8ms *Grade A* 135552 £77.00
Sub Total £488.13
Vat £85.42
Total £573.55

Not the best in the world but none to shabby at all, drop the monitor, mouse keyboard etc if they arent needed and its even cheaper. This is the system I am suggesting to my tight arse mate so he can play CoD4 (he nearly wet his pants playing it on my PC) Obviously for a few more quid you could get a far better graphics card and such

Thought you said high end!? Thats surely MID at best.

 

[Raven]

Its also a little over £400 without the monitor, case, keyboard and mouse. Which most people have. As i said shop around and you can easily get a top PC cheaply I knocked that up in 5 minutes on Ebuyer.

 

[Castus]

I know nothing about pcs since i last put together a P2 rig yearssssssssssss ago PC i use now was built by a mate who i never see/ hear from now so gte bcak to it Raven and build me a HIGH end spec rig for £800! Hey you even live in Northampton if i rem right so u could build it and drop it off at my work place

 

[soze]

Its also a little over £400 without the monitor, case, keyboard and mouse. Which most people have. As i said shop around and you can easily get a top PC cheaply I knocked that up in 5 minutes on Ebuyer.

I built a high end ish PC through work using reseller prices and not paying vat. I spent £600 i just do not think you could build a High End PC that cheap normally not if you went for optimal kit.

 

[cHodAX]

You can build a nice quad core system with 4gb of memory and a 8800GT graphics card for somewhere around £600 these days. That effectively buys a gaming rig that will be rock solid for 2 years and with a graphics card update after that 2 year period you will still have a very decent little machine. Quad core is where the value is right now and with the gaming development trend moving towards a multi-core requirement the quad core setups are going to have alot more legs than the dual cores.

 

[soze]

You can build a nice quad core system with 4gb of memory and a 8800GT graphics card for somewhere around £600 these days. That effectively buys a gaming rig that will be rock solid for 2 years and with a graphics card update after that 2 year period you will still have a very decent little machine. Quad core is where the value is right now and with the gaming development trend moving towards a multi-core requirement the quad core setups are going to have alot more legs than the dual cores.

I was trying to find something about ames using all 4 cores how long do you think till a game will take advantage of all 4 cores?

 

[Raven]

I guess now that there really is no real option other than getting at least 2 cores more and more games will use them properly, most use them both pretty effectively now. Its not just for gaming though, you can go into task manager and allocate programs for each core so you can be encoding video on one and gaming on another, I haven't really messed about with that side of things to be honest, I am happy to just let it run. I just fitted a high end sound card to mine too, which takes some of the load of the processor but again these are optional as the on board sound on most motherboards is more than enough.

The beauty of PCs is you can put what you like into the machine, assuming you have the money, with PC components getting cheaper and cheaper it can only get better for all forms of gaming.

You don't have to spend £400 on a graphics card, there is no real point most cards in the £100-150 bracket will do fine for the next year or so.

I just hope AMD and ATI pull their fingers out so we can have some good old competition like in the old days.

 

[cHodAX]

I was trying to find something about ames using all 4 cores how long do you think till a game will take advantage of all 4 cores?

There are about a dozen out already and because console development is now multi-core orientated there will be a massive knockon effect for PC development in the next 12-18 months. The current games that support 4 cores are not yet taking full advantage of all 4 cores but that is because we are still so early in the multi-core games development era. That is changing rapidly though.

 

[Wonk]

rename this thread to Cho vs Soze already

CHICK FIGHT, CHICK FIGHT, CHICK FIGHT, CHICK FIGHT

I've missed you guys <3 My computer is still not fixed, but it looks like someone called Raven is putting one together...

This post is pointless. I like chipmunks.

The end <("<)

 

[soze]

rename this thread to Cho vs Soze already

CHICK FIGHT, CHICK FIGHT, CHICK FIGHT, CHICK FIGHT

I've missed you guys <3 My computer is still not fixed, but it looks like someone called Raven is putting one together...

This post is pointless. I like chipmunks.

The end <("<)

Why thats not a fair fight Cho has the knowledge be like a retard vs Steven Hawkins at Mastermind.

(Still think Cho is a moster M$ fanboi)

 

[cHodAX]

(Still think Cho is a moster M$ fanboi)

Nope, I have started saving £5 a week towards a PS3 for next Christmas.

 

[soze]

Nope, I have started saving £5 a week towards a PS3 for next Christmas.

That means nothing I own a 360 and we all know i am a fan boi

 

[cHodAX]

That means nothing I own a 360 and we all know i am a fan boi

I have a 3DO as well though!

 

[Raven]

Played Halo 3 tonight for the first time, god awful game, looks ancient, not impressed at all. Virtua fighter was fun in its own way. the new pro evo was dire though, please don't tell me its like that on all platforms?

 

[Castus]

You don`t have time to play games Raven!

 

[Mas]

I'm sure i had this similar argument with my mates over the Spectrum and C64, still hand fanboi's back then too.

 

[cHodAX]

I'm sure i had this similar argument with my mates over the Spectrum and C64, still hand fanboi's back then too.

C64 pwned your Speccy biatch!

 

[soze]

Played Halo 3 tonight for the first time, god awful game, looks ancient, not impressed at all. Virtua fighter was fun in its own way. the new pro evo was dire though, please don't tell me its like that on all platforms?

I was totally unimpressed by the new pro evo as well and yeah its shit one every platform. And i have said since i played it if Halo 3 did not have the word Halo in it that would be a flop. But the typical deffence comes out when a game sucks "Multiplayer Rocks"

 

[cHodAX]

Kotaku says....

Calling It: The Xbox 360 Won 2007

 

[Sharma]

Incredibly biased tbh.

 

[~Latency~]

give the people with a ps3 an xbox 360 for a week and i'm pretty sure they'd never go back..

 

[soze]

give the people with a ps3 an xbox 360 for a week and i'm pretty sure they'd never go back..

Well it all depends i have both but hate the 360 gaming pad so you are 100% wrong with me at least

Kotaku says....

Calling It: The Xbox 360 Won 2007

DS or Wii must have won 2007 but we all know what really matters is who sells most in December in Japan and thats PS3 all the way baby

 

[cHodAX]

DS or Wii must have won 2007 but we all know what really matters is who sells most in December in Japan and thats PS3 all the way baby

America is a far more valuable market, especially when attach rate comes into the equation.

 

[soze]

America is a far more valuable market, especially when attach rate comes into the equation.

But Sony got arse raped there so December Japan is what we care about ok??

 

[UndyingAngel]

Personally between the consoles I think it depends what type of games you play,

If you want FPS, and sports related games I think the Xbox360 has it , but if your like me and like RPG's then its the PS3 all the same, the only sad thing is to get the best rpgs you have to import them from the US.

other thing is all the people I like who have Xbox360's have had to replace them at least once, and in once case 9 times a m8 has replaced his.

 

[Wonk]

Hi.
Buy a 360. Thank me later.
Goodbye.

 

[Golena]

If you want FPS I think the Xbox360 has it

Playing fps games with anything other than a mouse makes baby Jesus cry..

Repeat that 50 times and you shall be saved!

 

[Sharma]

Playing fps games with anything other than a mouse makes baby Jesus cry..

Repeat that 50 times and you shall be saved!

Haven't tried yet BUT it seems you can play FPSs with keyboard and mouse on the 360.

 

[Wonk]

Haven't tried yet BUT it seems you can play FPSs with keyboard and mouse on the 360.

not with mouse.