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[Violet]

Glad your tastebuds are so fond of sperm.

There's nothing wrong with the taste of semen... unless it's a guy you don't like.

For some reason it's only bitter then

[R-e-n-n-a-t]

The Xbox 360 has an AMD CPU. It's a tri-core clocked at 3.2 Ghz. For graphical capability, each version has a single DX9 card at 500Mhz, with no shader clock speed, no true Antialiasing support, output at low resolutions such as 720p, and 512MB of GDDR3 VRAM.

The PS3 has an oct-core cpu clocked at 3.2Ghz, with one core devoted to security systems, and another disabled to improve processing symmetry, making the useable count six cores. It features an Nvidia "Reality Synthesizer" clocked at about 600Mhz with 256 MB of local VRAM and another ~256MB native to blu-ray disks, used similarly to RAM disks.

For those of you to whom this all seems like so much tech-babble, this means that the consoles, both of them, are restricted to about 222 million transistors at the high end, which is about equal to an Nvidia GeForce 6800/8400, and an AMD Athlon dual core overclocked to at least 3.4Ghz, along with 2GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500w PSU, and two 40mm fans.

In short?
You can get a PC that outperforms consoles for only $200 if you know what to look for, and this is with the added utility of having a pc, plus true backwards compatibility and further savings later due to smaller upgrades than with each console generation.
The end?

[fuckass365]

The Xbox 360 has an AMD CPU. It's a tri-core clocked at 3.2 Ghz. For graphical capability, each version has a single DX9 card at 500Mhz, with no shader clock speed, no true Antialiasing support, output at low resolutions such as 720p, and 512MB of GDDR3 VRAM.

The PS3 has an oct-core cpu clocked at 3.2Ghz, with one core devoted to security systems, and another disabled to improve processing symmetry, making the useable count six cores. It features an Nvidia "Reality Synthesizer" clocked at about 600Mhz with 256 MB of local VRAM and another ~256MB native to blu-ray disks, used similarly to RAM disks.

For those of you to whom this all seems like so much tech-babble, this means that the consoles, both of them, are restricted to about 222 million transistors at the high end, which is about equal to an Nvidia GeForce 6800/8400, and an AMD Athlon dual core overclocked to at least 3.4Ghz, along with 2GB of DDR3 RAM, a 500w PSU, and two 40mm fans.

In short?
You can get a PC that outperforms consoles for only $200 if you know what to look for, and this is with the added utility of having a pc, plus true backwards compatibility and further savings later due to smaller upgrades than with each console generation.
The end?

Winning.

[Nine]

Doesn't change my opinion

My PC is fully capable for gaming. I just choose to use my Xbox. I prefer it.

[Tiberius]

Indeed. I'm also highly skeptical of the $200 price tag. That's roughly £125 in the UK, and I think the chances of buying any computer for that price are very slim, let alone one that can outperform an Xbox 360. Unless you are talking about used components?

[Shell B]

I couldn't buy a computer for that much! Mine cost about a grand and it isn't fit for gaming.

[R-e-n-n-a-t]

I am talking about new parts, but I have to specify that you need to build it yourself since nobody will sell a whole rig for that little.
If you check Newegg and pick your deals, the card should run about $40, the cpu $50, the RAM $20, the PSU $30, the fans $10 each, and a case if you find one with an included mobo as a package for $50.

They're not good components at all. I would never recommend a $30 PSU for a gaming rig.
But that's not a gaming rig, and it still passes consoles by a small margin.

No offense, but if you spent $1000 on a pc it should really be high end, otherwise you spent way too much. My PC can max just about any game at a middling resolution (still higher than 720p), and it was $300 less than yours.

That's leaving aside game optimization , which consoles have done for them already, and overclocking, which you'd probably end up doing yourself on a budget rig. That much work will probably leave some people still preferring their consoles.

[Shell B]

I live in Massachusetts on the Irish Riveria. I'm not sure about computers, but everything else is insanely expensive here.

I know I have a pretty decent computer, but, again, it's not a gaming computer. It has everything I need, but, again, my needs are different.

[Napoléon]

Winning.

[R-e-n-n-a-t]

I live in Massachusetts on the Irish Riveria. I'm not sure about computers, but everything else is insanely expensive here.

I know I have a pretty decent computer, but, again, it's not a gaming computer. It has everything I need, but, again, my needs are different.

I'm guessing it's a laptop? That would make more sense for that cost.