Cost of building a gaming PC *spawn

[eastmen]

That consoles value is fantastic has alot to do with them being essentially 2019 mid-range machines in pc terms for the most. 10TF RDNA2 gpu which is ballpark 3060/6600XT, low clocked zen2 3700x, 16gb total ram and a small SSD. Value all of a sudden is much better, but also then your on low to mid range hardware from the 2020 era.

The strength of the console is that its fixed and they make tens of millions of them. But at the end of the day its also just an unchanging piece of stone and thats its down side. So a xbox series x in 2020 is great compared to the hardware of 2020 when you factor in price and everything. In 2022 it might be loosing its edge there , in 2023 / 4/ 5 and so on it will fall way by the way side. Then if you do buy a mid gen replacement nothing form the previous machien is really usable. That built in 1TB sdd ? Junk , all that ram ? Junk .

If in 2020 you bought a ryzen 3x00 with a mobo and 16/32 gigs of ram and a video card and an nvme drive or even a regular ssd drive well in 2023 if you want to upgrade you can grab a ryzen 5800x3d and you still use that mobo ram / nvme / ssd drive. That power supply and case are still good too. Maybe you drop money on a new video card also.

So if we take that console and say well we need to drop another $500 for its replacement and start fresh maybe the value prop is still good. But at the same time you can take that pc and upgrade only the parts that need to be upgraded.

The real struggle is as the generation goes on that console will slowly play the new games worse and worse compared to a pc that you can keep ugrading

 

[Cyan]

Hmm

Ryzen 5 3600 with mobo $130 https://www.microcenter.com/product...gabyte-b450m-ds3h-wifi,-cpu-motherboard-combo
16 gigs of ddr 4 3200 $51 https://www.microcenter.com/product...l-desktop-memory-kit-f4-3200c16d-16gvkb-black
nzxt h510 case $70 https://www.microcenter.com/product...pered-glass-atx-mid-tower-computer-case-black
thermaltake 600 watt $ 45 https://www.microcenter.com/product...600-watt-80-plus-atx-non-modular-power-supply
1TB nvme drive $50 https://www.microcenter.com/product...2-2280-3d-nand-qlc-internal-solid-state-drive

$350

Have $250 left over I guess

You can do a 3060 for $370 https://www.microcenter.com/product...ked-dual-fan-12gb-gddr6-pcie-40-graphics-card

You can do a 6600xt for $289 https://www.microcenter.com/product...cked-dual-fan-8gb-gddr6-pcie-40-graphics-card

3050 for $310 https://www.microcenter.com/product...cked-dual-fan-8gb-gddr6-pcie-40-graphics-card

Puts you slightly over the build cost I said.

Great thing about the PC . If in two years you find you need more performance you can drop in 16 core cpu or a 12 core or a 8 core with large amounts of cache. If you want you can jump up to a faster gpu if you need too.

With that ps5 / xbox series your stuck with that hardware, best case scenario is they come out with mid gen upgrade . But then you are rebuying a lot of hardware in there. That 1TB ssd inside your ps5 and xbox series x ? It's gone your new system just has what it comes with. With this build you just put it as a secondary drive if you want and buy a larger drive.

Oh and this is just me using one website if you don't mind buying from multiple sites or waiting for black friday or buying used you can build a pc for a lot cheaper. obviously I think you might as well drop $800 on a system build but hey I don't know the money people have to throw around

if you want the bang for the buck PC build I'd go with either the 6700XT which is a beast and you can find it on sale, or the A770 16GB which performs well and has some interesting technologies.

Thus you get a PC with about double the performance compared to consoles in rasterization and orders of magnitude better performance when RT is enabled.

Consoles this generation were born fatally wounded with early RDNA 2 features, and lack of interesting technologies save for maybe the directstorage thing, plus the lack of chips and pandemic made it even worse, 'cos it woudn't make a difference imho, for them to be launched in 2021 rather than in 2020, hardware sales wise, but the hardware would be more mature.