Console vs. PC Gaming - Pros / Cons?

[taemo]

Originally posted by A790

Why not 1070?

And congrats- enjoy your new setup!

never considered the 1070 as i figured the 1060 was the natural successor for my 960.
also i just looked at the price and too expensive for my taste lol, i usually budget my videocards in the 300-400 range.

i wonder if i should wait for boxing day as the 960 is still sufficient for my gaming tbh

edit: also i dont see a 1070 that will fit on my mini case

[pheoxs]

1070 is the shit. <3 mine. Was debating a 1080 originally but too much $$$

[WhippWhapp]

My cousin was a ps4 player with an older (i7/GTX 680) gaming pc.

ESO ran like double the frame rate on his pc, even though the video card was pretty ancient. I helped him piece together a rig with a 1080 in it, and he's never looked back.

He sold his ps4 a few weeks ago and couldn't be any happier.

[killramos]

Since i have been doing some laptop shopping i have started comparing GPU performance numbers.

Realized the compute performance of the GPU in my 2011 iMac is about the equivalent to the one in an XB1 Also not that far off from a GTX 960m.

Nothing else to add.

[A790]

Originally posted by killramos
Since i have been doing some laptop shopping i have started comparing GPU performance numbers.

Realized the compute performance of the GPU in my 2011 iMac is about the equivalent to the one in an XB1 Also not that far off from a GTX 960m.

Nothing else to add.

How does it do in-game?

[msommers]

Originally posted by BigMass


https://www.zotac.com/us/product/min...indows-10-home

It's tiny and runs cool and quiet. About the size of a router.

Price is gonna hurt because it's new but it's about the best form factor you can buy with these specs.

They make a watercooled one with a 1080 but I don't even want to know the price on that so I didn't even bother linking to it lol.

I might honestly be blind but I can't see prices for these lol

[killramos]

Originally posted by A790

How does it do in-game?

Really solid, esp when I do my win7 dual-boot. I usually just run things on mac side though as the performance difference isn't that substantial.

Radeon 6970m, Core i7-2600 3.4 Ghz, 12GB Ram. Its actually a pretty beastly machine. Love it. Bought it for CAD and Rendering when i was playing around with that in school.

All it needs is an SSD to wake it up a bit but fuck is the retrofit complicated

[BigMass]

Originally posted by msommers


I might honestly be blind but I can't see prices for these lol

http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product...82E16856173139

You provide your own drive and ram. At this point wait to see if any boxing day sales. But because it's still relatively new, it might get sold out quick. 1070 version looks sold out now. Could also check NCIX or other places. Memoryexpress decided to go with the Gigabyte Brix versions for some reason which are terrible compared to the Zotac

[carson blocks]

I got a chance to try out the PSVR the other day and was very impressed. I think picking a VR platform (Oculus vs PSVR etc) will drive my next console vs. pc decision. I was 1000% on the gaming PC side, then find out the 980m in my newer gaming laptop is borderline to run Oculus.

[schocker]

I tried PSVR last week and it was OK, but for the total cost, I was pretty underwhelmed compared to the Vive. Graphics were pretty bad and the resolution was also bad (Drive Club). It is comfortable though.

[carson blocks]

I bought a Gear to mess with and it makes me feel sick, where I didn't feel that on the PSVR. I'm thinking of going with Rift as I'm a lazy couch gamer, not a 'cordon off a VR space' gamer. PSVR isn't that bad when you consider you can get a PS4 pro and PSVR cheaper than a gaming PC that will run Oculus or Vive. I just want to be done with consoles though.

[schocker]

The PSVR made me a lil sick until I put in the headphones. If I had to get one myself I would get a rift as I don't care about room scale and would only really use it for racing/flying games etc. I imagine even with the PS4 Pro though the graphics would still not be great along with the lower res display in the PSVR itself. I do realize though I am in the small subset who has a computer that would work well with vive/rift.

[pheoxs]

Originally posted by schocker
The PSVR made me a lil sick until I put in the headphones. If I had to get one myself I would get a rift as I don't care about room scale and would only really use it for racing/flying games etc. I imagine even with the PS4 Pro though the graphics would still not be great along with the lower res display in the PSVR itself. I do realize though I am in the small subset who has a computer that would work well with vive/rift.

From reading online the complaints in the reddit vr places aren't as much about the PSVR graphics as its sensors can be fairly jittery / accidental drift.

For anyone interested Bestbuy.ca has the Rift for 100$ off. It says you get a 100$ GC but when you add it to your cart it just discounts 100$ instead of a GC.