PC Games are... surging.
- Thread starter Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
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Silent_Buddha
Legend
And this one...
I think that's probably the largest reason.
Regards,
SB
I think that's probably the largest reason.
Regards,
SB
Bouncing Zabaglione Bros.
Legend
Price is definitely a significant factor (especially during sales) but I think there's a lot of convenience involved. Just being able to shop from your desk, see something on Steam, and with today's broadband you can have it and be playing it in 10-30 minutes.
No travelling to a shop with high prices and a tiny selection to be treated like a third class customer. Just instant gratification.
Excellent news. I wonder how the new consoles will effect this though, both in the short and long term, especially if its another 10 year console generation.
keithcrestone
Newcomer
One of you start gaming on a high end custom built desktop there is no return. Consoles can't even come close in terms of quality, value, comfort, or customization. My current overclocked ivy bridge beast will blow away the ps4/720 and they're not even out yet. And in a few years I can simply upgrade a few parts for half the price of a console..
Its a last resort for me
1. I have to get someone to buy it for me as I have no bank account
2. I worry that steam wont be around indefinitely
3. its a hassle setting up a separate account for each game.
4. Any company that says "agree not to sue us or we will take all your games away from you" are a bunch
of cunts
4. I'm a collector I value the physical object, I want a dvd, i want a box, I want a manual ect...
It's not that simple. Consoles have way, way less software overhead to get stuff rendered on the screen, and the CPU and GPU are also much more tightly coupled physically, enabling effects processing that won't be (as) feasible on even a high-powered PC because round-trip latency is too long when you have to go across the rather slow PCIe interface both ways.
yea but looking at whats coming later this year and 2014 doesn't paint a great picture for consoles.
We have Hawaii coming from amd which is the leaked benchmarks are true we will be getting titan + performance at whats rumored to be $600 pricing. Broadwell is also coming next year too which is going to be a big leap forward in terms of performance with the micron drop. Next year we should also transition to ddr 4 .
The other thing is these new consoles have tons of cpu cores , an amd gcn gpu and are x86-64 . So we should actually see the rise of 64bit games capable of using as much ram as a pc can throw at them.
tongue_of_colicab
Veteran
They said the same about Haswell. Wonder if Broadwell really is going to be that much faster. There isn't really any reason for Intel to release a much faster cpu given that they have no competition in the high end market.
Not that it matters, I doubt any half decent current cpu is going to have problems with performance. Last generation the consoles actually had pretty good hardware for their day but I never had any cpu performance problems on my pc with a q6600 and 2gb ram. That cpu only launched about a year after the consoles. Given how the ps4/one use a cpu that wouldn't have raised any eyebrows on the performance point of view even if it launched 12 months ago I doubt anyone with a fast ivy bridge cpu is going to run out of performance anytime soon.
Not that it matters, I doubt any half decent current cpu is going to have problems with performance. Last generation the consoles actually had pretty good hardware for their day but I never had any cpu performance problems on my pc with a q6600 and 2gb ram. That cpu only launched about a year after the consoles. Given how the ps4/one use a cpu that wouldn't have raised any eyebrows on the performance point of view even if it launched 12 months ago I doubt anyone with a fast ivy bridge cpu is going to run out of performance anytime soon.
To give PC's credit, I bricked my mobo and then went out a got a replacement. I was quite ready for a long rebuild by having something as critical as a mobo change.
Much to my content and shock, there was nothing to do. I uninstalled the OC utilit for the dead mobo and installed the tools for the new one. Back in business. Ran some benchmarks and they came out the same.
This is on Windows 8.1
Much to my content and shock, there was nothing to do. I uninstalled the OC utilit for the dead mobo and installed the tools for the new one. Back in business. Ran some benchmarks and they came out the same.
This is on Windows 8.1
DuckThor Evil
Legend
The roadmaps aren't really promising a 6 core model though. Also Sandy to Ivy was a node change and per clock performance didn't improve much and Intel even gimped the heat transfer solution to the heatsink and thus Ivy's don't overclock as well.
The GTA V example mentioned earlier imo is more about the +200$ million dollars spent on the game than PS3's capabilities, although I do find it very impressive also. I'm sure there will be console exclusives later on that'll look and play very good though.
I guess we just have to see what broadwell brings. I don't think intel will miss a chance to jump further ahead in the pc realm . 2014 should have amd actually release something for desktops that isn't fully recycled. So I'm sure they will want to push out the performance crown
As long as you're using Standard AHCI Driver then swapping motherboards isn't nearly as bad as it used to be years ago. I've done several swaps on Windows 7.
I generally follow the KISS principle and let windows do it's thing. The only manual driver updates I do are video cards for betas.
We've noticed the same as well with Windows 8. We never had luck with Windows 7 at changing motherboards, it would always just blue screen. But we've changed multiple mobo's on Windows 8 machines so far and they just worked, we were actually quite surprised and pleased. Even switching same mobo to same mobo, it would fail on Windows 7 and work on Windows 8. Mind you we're more and more switching to laptops now...but it's a nice feature of Windows 8, makes upgrading quite easy.
