Quote: Originally Posted by
smoger 
PC
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Console.... $310(8800 gt + 1gb ram over your existing computer)
What fucking ass did you pull $310 out of? You're assuming that everyone ALREADY has a good monitor, good speakers, a decent mouse, a fast hard drive, a motherboard and CPU that can run a PCI-E x16 card without any trouble, and already has good ram to mix the new ram in with. All ram is not created equal and there's a lot of garbage out there that can't handle any sort of aggressive timing.
To build a GOOD computer that doesn't require you to run your games on the lowest quality setting at 20fps, you're looking at $1000 including the monitor and speakers. If you want to max out all your options you're definitely going into the $2000-3000 range depending on what you want.
In 3 years you don't have to upgrade your console through 6 generations of technology updates like you do with a PC. You buy a DirectX 10 card now and in 3 years they'll have DirectX 12 out with all sorts of shit your $400 video card doesn't support. Also, when you do decide to buy that new video card, chances are it's on a new bus, sorta like the AGP 1X-8X deal, now PCI Express 1.0, 1.1, 2.0, which means in order to use a new card you're looking to buy a new motherboard. But the socket your CPU uses is now been replaced and you have to change that with the motherboard. Then of course the bus on the new CPU is faster so you need faster RAM to enjoy the new CPU to the fullest extent. Next thing you know, you just built another computer. Everything is consistent on the console, everyone sees nearly the same image and you don't have to worry about dropping down to 15-20fps because your shit can't handle the game. You don't have to upgrade it every year or two.
I prefer PCs to consoles, but there is no way in hell you can figure that a PC is the cheaper route. You're a moron if you think otherwise.
