el gappo

im just curious to see if anybody knows what graphics card (and cpu's) are equivalent to the chips in the ps3 and xbox 360. i cannot find any benchmarking software that has been adapted for the consoles and the diffences would make them irrelevent but in terms of gameplay, fps lighting AA etc what would be needed to beat a console?

please dont turn this thread into a console bashing thread i feel we need to know how much it would cost to turn a family pc into an up to date complete family entertainment system.

IEATFISH

Your hardware is already better than a console. The difference is that your computer runs an OS made for lots of things whereas a console's sole purpose is games. The games are also coded differently which makes them look optimized for the console, but the same graphics on a PC would be unsatisfactory.

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el gappo

another thing that is overlooked is the console can be pluged into massive screen and not flinch, whereas a computer can stugle at higher resolutions. (excuse my terrible graphics card btw, new one on monday) what would it take for a pc to perform aswell as a console in gaming?

IEATFISH

For your computer, and for higher resolutions, you may want to look at getting a GTX260 216 or 4870 1gb and another 2gb of RAM.

A feature that you don't notice on consoles is that they blur the backgrounds since they can't display that much quality at once. That feature on a PC makes the image look like poo.

Once again, you can't really compare the two. A big screen TV is big size wise, but the resolution is at most probably 1920xwhatever. I run games on my 40" 1080p TV on all full settings without any problems. And they look 10x better than their console counterparts.

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Daegameth

Plugging a console into a larger screen does not necessarily mean you are increasing it's resolution, often just the size of the screen. You can do the same with a computer.

You can't exactly compare the two, as they don't play the same things. Like the previous poster said, optimizations favor the console. But as far as hardware goes, it would take (off the top of my head) about $500 for a respectable, full computer and accessories to match/beat a console.

el gappo

how hiensight of you, i typed this post and refreshed before i posted it. you got the budget bang on!
i got enough from the sale of my nintendo wii to put this rig together and i would never look back, @ 650 core clock and 550 memory i can play crysis on medium and cod4 on max but im fiending for more and im getting a gts250 but i have to build a couple of more systems for foster children with a budget of £500 monitor os and periferals included + a cut for me which makes it around £450 because im kind lol i just want them to be capable of stoping them talking about gamer scores and stop that jet engine noise from the next room that is the xbox 360's. you think a kuma 7750 be and a 9600gt can do it?

adventfred

a 7900gtx is wat the ps3 is using but it dont have dx10

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ljason8eg

Even though consoles say they display games at 1080p, for the most part that's not true. Some games aren't even 720p because the consoles can't run them smoothly. COD comes to mind...it's something like 576p that's upscaled to 720p.

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el gappo

thats nice to know

jeffries7

I'd love to run 3D mark 06 on a PS3 and XBOX 360 just to see what the scores would be.

Consoles are holding the whole games industry graphically back

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