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"PC vs Consoles"

who else finds the narrow-minded people who only ever consider consoles to overpower the PC very idiotic?

ive asked around at my school and alsmot everyone who plays the console thinks that consoles are WAAAAY better than PC's - at least 'for gaming' they said. WAKE UP PPL. the specs of most top half PC's today dwarf the tiny consoles that keep spewing out of mindwarped companies. no matter how hard they try, xbox online, ps2 hooking up to modem, PC's will ALWAYS be one step ahead, be it technology, power or even looks. everything about the PC is that much better than any console out to date. THE plans for gamecube 2 or PS3 that may arrive in the future, are already out of date, for PC's are growing in power at an astonishing rate. only a few monthas ago, i saw 2.4 ghz PCs being the top spec out to date, and not only that but a few years ago, 500mhz was top of the range, and while PS2s and xbox's have showed an improvement over their previous type, the PCs will always be growing and will NEVER be out of date, constantly improving and never falling behind any petty console. EVEN MICROSOFT submitted to making a console, which is quite foolish, as they should have concentrated on improving their own OS and other small details that would ultimately make PC users lives that little more smooth.

i find it a shame that so many people have been brainwashed by the fancy ads that overrate the console entirely. but generally, PC's are usually owned by the more intelligent of society (hehe unless ure an exception, like me :) ) while consoles that simply switch on and take hours to load or do anything for that matter, belong to the young people of narrow minds.

this is merely my opinion, but im sure that other pc users out there are sick of seeing more and more people buying machines that may instantly be out of date and thrown to the back of the shelf to make way for a new improved model.

what do yall think?

thats a thought, i think ill get a new mobo - one that can handle more than just durons. eclipse sell em cheep-ish

lol, your mate has a system a lot like mine. mine is a 900mhz with bout 380mb of ram, and has a geforce 2 mx400 with a fortemedia 5.1 sound card - but the sort of games i play can kind of slow down, which is just crazy.

extra power wouldnt hurt, and its dirt cheap now - but it all depends wether you'd want the hassle of errors, viruses etc of a PC in return for the vast reward for putting up with it, or would you want a short-term system that has none of that?

like you said it all depends........

UrkiE-UK wrote:
> now PS2 is here and the pc costs about 1 grand - maybe more for a
> crazy system like bout 3 ghz - with all the junk that comes with it.
> PC's are steadily increasing in value for money. i'd estimate that the
> PS2 has around 900mhz of power with a very nice graphics card - in PC
> terms at least, because i honestly dont know whats in consoles. for
> around 3 times the power - but about 5 times more expensive - its
> still an improvement. it means you can get a decent system like a
> 900mhz for around 250 quid at computer fayres around warwickshire and
> all sorts. you can get very powerful base units for around 700 quid -
> which is still good value, because you wont need an upgrade for ages
> and ages. until around 2005-6 the top system available today will be
> up-to-scratch with the games that come out like bullets from the
> chaingun of companies.

Right, first off, please bear with me, second, the XBox, the most expensive and most powerful console has the following specs: 800mhz preocessor, 8 gigabyte hard drive, DVD and music capability. I do not know what the graphics card in the XBOx is, but I would guess it to be a Geforce 1 equivelant, BTW my friend has a PC system with a 933mhz processor and a Geforce 2 which he bought a year or so ago, and he can run Return To Castle Wolfenstein at full detail, which looks way better than XBOX. He can also run every game upto and including Splinter Cell.

Thirdly, yes, the three gig processor is expensive, but who needs it, with PCs the maximum system you currently need to run all the latest games at full detail is around two gigs with a GF4 MX440. Games have only just managed to catch up with that sort of system, also, I have a p3 866 processor and a TNT2 video card and I can run most games (Max Payne, Soldier Of Fortune 2), not on high detail, but they run without much slowdown, besides, I am about to get a GF4 MX440, then i will be able to run all games.

Fourthly, please don't hate me if I sounded like an arrogant so and so who thinks he knows everything, because you people are smarter than me :)

lol shadow knight.

yet another person agrees - mickytnr

i feel that the pc is extremely better than any console. they hav been running for years ad they have not been taken of the market unlike many other consoles E.g. the N64, if you look in your latest SR mag then you will notice only 11 N64 games being shown but there are 445 pc games (and yes i did count because i felt like it). even though they an immense amount of money more than a console, you know that the pc will nver be run down by any console.plus you can do many other great things with a pcthat you cant with a console.

UrkiE-UK wrote:
> shadow knight.................. ..............................you just
> busted this whole thread by sayin that. :D well done - it was
> pointless anywayz

whoops
*gets superglue out*

OK, when the PS2 came out it was £300 with one controller and no games.
A 3Ghz chip (well, 3.06Ghz) costs around £400 alone. But the 3Ghz chip is literally cutting edge technology, which the PS2 is not and was not when it was released.

gosh cipro, you must be rich. joking mate. have to agree with you there. playstations when they came out, apart from being pieces of junk now, were like a hundred quid or something, now PS2's have decreased in value to about 190 quid or perhaps more, cant remember. when playstations came out, a 600mhz pc would have cost about 1 and a half grand. thats a lot.

now PS2 is here and the pc costs about 1 grand - maybe more for a crazy system like bout 3 ghz - with all the junk that comes with it. PC's are steadily increasing in value for money. i'd estimate that the PS2 has around 900mhz of power with a very nice graphics card - in PC terms at least, because i honestly dont know whats in consoles. for around 3 times the power - but about 5 times more expensive - its still an improvement. it means you can get a decent system like a 900mhz for around 250 quid at computer fayres around warwickshire and all sorts. you can get very powerful base units for around 700 quid - which is still good value, because you wont need an upgrade for ages and ages. until around 2005-6 the top system available today will be up-to-scratch with the games that come out like bullets from the chaingun of companies. (wow that was a good metaphor-simile-preposition, whatever)

I have 2 consoles as well as a PC, and before anybody starts saying stuff like "gosh you must be rich" I must point out that the cosoles themselves are very cheap when compared to PC hardware.

There is a problem though, console games are much more expensive than PC ones, so my console games collection isn't as big as other console owners.

shadow knight.................. ..............................you just busted this whole thread by sayin that. :D well done - it was pointless anywayz