Console vs. PC gaming

[russilker]

@rex_woodall

So, do any of you guys think an SLI setup is worth the money? Tom’s hardware says that basically can double your framerate.

No, I don’t think its worth the money. Instead of buying two good cards, buy one super-good card for the same price, which will serve u just as well (if not better, since the benefit of a second card is somewhere close to 50%, and the power requirements are huge, etc…), then in the future you can upgrade and get a second card as SLi or for PhysX if you’re using nVidia, although right now ATi has the best bang for the buck since the GTX 400-series is quite a dissapointment

EDIT: ninja’d

[MechUnit]

@CTID

If you’re going to use more than one GPU, go ATi and use Crossfire. It’s cheaper and their newer cards are faster and have Direct X 11 on them.

EDIT: Hell, even if you go with one GPU, I’d still recommend ATi over NVidia. Faster, smaller, cooler-running cards for less money.

you can’t say this generally about all cards. with dx11-GPU’s you’re right ATM, with dx10-GPU’s not. it depends mostly on the amount of shader units on a card - but games with Physx support will, of course, run better with a Nvidia-GPU with Physx support…

[CTID]

I said ATi, which should go without saying that I mean their 5xxx series. Especially since I explicitly said “Direct X 11.”

[Door]

@Jingles

Oh really?

£114.49 isn’t $120.
I was looking at brand new ones and the others you linked aren’t $120 either, and the only one I’d be happy buying is the first LG.

/late

[mrfohlin]

Both PC and Consoles are great.
What the PC hasn’t, the console has and vice versa.

[Maxey]

@mrfohlin

What the PC hasn’t, the console has

The only thing the consoles have that a PC doesn’t are the exclusive games.

[James.Curse]

@Maxey

The only thing the consoles have that a PC doesn’t are the exclusive games.

Games which may end up coming to the pc some time later…

PC FTW

[Maxey]

Yeah, I’m not seeing myself playing Uncharted or Killzone on my PC anytime soon.

[Jingles]

@Door

£114.49 isn’t $120.
I was looking at brand new ones and the others you linked aren’t $120 either, and the only one I’d be happy buying is the first LG.

/late

Well Google Shop said it was, and anyway, that is assuming you get LCD, CRT screens are a hell of a lot cheaper (all of the TVs in my house are CRT at the moment).
EG: https://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=crt+TV&hl=en&cid=2619811993779969939&ei=BRYNTLm1NoOM2ASeyOneBA&sa=title&ved=0CBMQ8wIwAjgA#p
https://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=crt+TV&hl=en&show=dd&cid=13562224786349958678&ei=LBYNTKjbJo_O2AT7j8jjBA&sa=title&ved=0CAsQ8wIwATgU#p
https://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=crt+TV&hl=en&show=dd&cid=17774272434665151672&ei=LBYNTKjbJo_O2AT7j8jjBA&sa=title&ved=0CBMQ8wIwAzgU#p
https://www.google.co.uk/products/catalog?q=crt+TV&hl=en&show=dd&cid=12552081415720108777&ei=LBYNTKjbJo_O2AT7j8jjBA&sa=title&ved=0CCcQ8wIwCDgU#p

[CTID]

£114.49 is somewhere in the ballpark of $170, Jingles. You’re not going to get a GOOD 20" HDTV for less than $300. Maybe $400.

[rex_woodall]

@mrfohlin

Both PC and Consoles are great.
What the PC hasn’t, the console has and vice versa.

i think playing FPS with a dpad would take a lot of getting used to.

i have two PC games with no mouse support - Resident Evil 4 & Star Wars Republic Heroes. Basically an unplayable waste of money.

Playing with a mouse is much more fluid & natural in my opinion.

[Door]

@Jingles

Well Google Shop said it was

Funny, since that same Google said that £114.49 is around $170.

@CTID

You’re not going to get a GOOD 20" HDTV for less than $300.

That’s what I was trying to get at; you can get a 20" television on the cheap, but it’s unlikely to be very good.

[Jingles]

I don’t have a single HDTV in my house and they are all good quality, and Door, it was most likely an old cached shopping item.

[CTID]

The only HDTV in my house is my sister’s. It’s 32" and cost somewhere between $800-$900.

[Maxey]

Consoles are good for whenever you feel like calling everyone online a fag with your annoying 12 year old voice.

[Door]

@Jingles

I don’t have a single HDTV in my house and they are all good quality

I haven’t used HDTV at all since the screen size of our television won’t give us the benefits, it’s still good quality for what it does.

@Jingles

and Door, it was most likely an old cached shopping item.

Google more thoroughly.

[Texter]

An i7 930 clocked to 4 GHz with a single GTX480 on water at 900 MHz will get you far today and even tomorrow. Game developers are getting better and better at getting the most out of the consoles, but realistically, we’re talking 2005 spec hardware, rendering at minimal resolutions upscaled to HD, at a mere 30 fps.

[Maxey]

@Texter

An i7 930 clocked to 4 GHz with a single GTX480 on water at 900 MHz will get you far today and even tomorrow. Game developers are getting better and better at getting the most out of the consoles, but realistically, we’re talking 2005 spec hardware, rendering at minimal resolutions upscaled to HD, at a mere 30 fps.

Most PS3 and 360 games are rendered directly at 720p and in few cases 1080p.

Maybe you’re referring to 1080i upscaling?

[CTID]

And the GTX 480 is a god-awful GPU that runs at around 100 degrees Celcius.

[Jeannotvb]

@CTID

And the GTX 480 is a god-awful GPU that runs at around 100 degrees Celcius.

So does my GTX285, my 9800GX2 and my 7900GT - it happens when you keep the fanspeed on auto. Just crank it up to 100% and it should stay around 60-70 C max.

Although ATI has the edge at the moment, NVIDIA still has the fastest single core GPU, which is important for me because I absolutely hate any dual GPU setup (microstuttering issues, mobo overheating etc.).