SpaceGazelle wrote:

You're not far off from a pretty decent PC. You buy a motherboard and I'll give you my i5 when I upgrade later this year. I'll be getting new RAM soon so you can have that 8gb too.

You're way too kind. We'll have to see what the summer holds with regards to jobs. If I can get something I'm gonna punt it all on a new PC.

Tempy wrote:

Kernowgaz wrote:

Anyone interested in a Quantum Break key for £10 ?

Quoted for the turn

Thanks

Jesus. That's a bigger leap than I was expecting.

I'm i reading right that it's still more than the price of a console for their budget card, though?

in the 3-4 years you have a top card it can pay for itself in what you save on PC games vs console games.
Batman AK (which worked on my 980), Mad Max, Street Fighter V and Dark Souls 3 were all day one purchases for myself over the past year and cost about £80-90 total.

They'll probably do a cheaper 1060 at some point. They usually release the flagship high end cards first, then put out cheaper models later. I think they did this with GTX 960/950.

4k goggles and I'm in.

I didn't say that it does. Though, other than a few exclusives, there's really no point to do it over console gaming (and several not to) unless you it is.

OK, you've goaded me into it. Here's just ONE reason why I prefer my PC over consoles: emulation.

I play quite a lot of old GameCube, Wii & PS2 games. They usually look pretty wonderful upscaled to hi-res with AA etc. Sure I *could* own the original consoles (and at one point probably did), but I like having just one machine which plays all these formats and not having to arse about finding space for them to live, switching cables to the TV, amplifier etc.

Undertale begs to differ. (Yes, I am being an argumentative pedant.)

We were talking about graphics cards, I'd assumed the fact that what I was saying was in the context of big games and the like was obvious. Guess I'd assumed wrong. Let me rephrase my original statement so that the point I'm making is clear.

Although you can use one you already have for other reasons to do so, there is no point in buying a low end PC for standard/mainstream gaming over a console as, at best, you'll be paying the same for a lesser experience.

For the record, I do most of my gaming on a mid-range (not gaming specific) laptop from a couple of years ago, probably about the level of a low-end gaming rig which would cost around as much as a console. I don't even attempt to run the majority of recent games on it, though. I also have a couple of games (Her Story, Please Don't Touch Anything, etc.) installed on my work laptop that's got integrated graphics.

I don't think Ico/SOTC works on PS4. Some reckon the PS3 version of Journey is better, too. Might be worth picking one of them up second hand.

Same for me, though I can't really justify an expensive GPU for anything other than games.

I can post the parts if people are so inclined.

Stellaris tomorrow. Kind of excited.