Originally posted by: SOSTrooper
They do have demos for console games, usually comes w/ magazines or $8 a pop called "jampack (PS2 anyway)"
Arm and a leg? Hardly. I think this question is pretty base. It's like comparing a Civic to a Corvette. The Civic can do things fine, but the Corvette can do them faster and better. The gaming computer industry is like car mods, the more money you throw in, the better your computer/car becomes. If you want to be anal and save power, by all means do so, put your monitor on powersave, shut down your computer at night, etc. Just like if you'd want to save gas, you'd go easy on the accelerator and buy an econobox.Originally posted by: Jerboy
Originally posted by: PsychoAndy
you fail to understand something: we pay say, $500 for a new vid card
we can play games, and do all sorts of video stuff IN addition to wonderful stuff like word processing
That's a sorry excuse for paying an arm and a long for "ultimate drooling gaming machine". Gamers say multi-purpose as an excuse for building powerful PC's. Most people don't do CAD or video editing requiring tremendous amount of processor power, they continue spending on things like Athlon XP 2200, GeForce 4 TI 4600(or whatever), 1GB of DDR2700(or whatever they're up to) and all they ever do is surf, type, nef and GAMEZ. I think it is redundant. Computers are multi-purpose processing devices and they're usually not excelling at specific task such as game processing. Consoles are optimzed for such and requires less power to get the same result.
The cost of drooling gaming computer system easily far exceeds the cost of buying a console and a Celeron computer.
I wouldn't be surprised if GF4 itself used enough energy to keep my room lit up well. It takes 85W to keep my room lit up, I mean VERY brightly, like a classroom.
My computer uses 90W and it is what you'd call "low end" p3 machine. (look in my rigs page). A ultimate nerd-drooling gaming machine probably takes 200-300W(Dual XP2200+, Tyan Tiger MP, two 15KRPM SCSI in RAID 0, GeForce 4 Ti4600 and 1GB DDR2700)
Arm and a leg? Hardly. I think this question is pretty base. It's like comparing a Civic to a Corvette.
Not true. Comparing on racetrack is like comparing benchmarks. For everyday practical use, Corvette does not do things "better and faster" than Civic nor does a dual XP2200+ significantly smokes Celeron 1000 other than gaming.The Civic can do things fine, but the Corvette can do them faster and better.
The gaming computer industry is like car mods, the more money you throw in, the better your computer/car becomes.
Once If you want to be anal and save power,
Don't you think that 'idiots' is a bit too strong here? If a person buy things they cannot afford just to say they have it, or is neglecting other important things like savings just to have it, then yes they're an idiot. But if a person can afford it, then what business of it is your's how they spend their money. I mean, its their money they're spending, not yours.Now, like you guys were saying earlier, I agree that those who spend $400 every 3 months on a new card are idiots. But in general, you could say that the PC's graphics cards are a better value graphics-wise than a PS2 or X-Box.
Originally posted by: tcsenter
Don't you think that 'idiots' is a bit too strong here? If a person buy things they cannot afford just to say they have it, or is neglecting other important things like savings just to have it, then yes they're an idiot. But if a person can afford it, then what business of it is your's how they spend their money. I mean, its their money they're spending, not yours.Now, like you guys were saying earlier, I agree that those who spend $400 every 3 months on a new card are idiots. But in general, you could say that the PC's graphics cards are a better value graphics-wise than a PS2 or X-Box.
Some people spend thousands of dollars on these little ornate hand-painted eggs. I can't see what the attraction is, but I suppose they do and that's all that matters.
Originally posted by: BD2003
A few quick reasons
1. Better Graphics
2. PCs do more than play games
3. Is like comparing apples and oranges in some ways.
4. Apparently unlike you, other people can afford it, so why not?
5. Warcraft III and UT2003
6. You can sell your old card to buy a new one
. Can upgrade older games
2. Playing at 1600x1200x32x4 FSAA I think is plain fetish, and you belong to the people (like me) that simply want to see where the virtual graphics have progressed and you don't really get into the game, (no hardcore game requires fetish gameplay, he simply love the game itself)
And I dont want to hear this new cards arent being utilized BS. I push my GF4 to the max with FSAA and AF at high res. Was a huge image quality upgrade over the GF3.