But we could almost buy three consoles for this, and worryingly, we haven't even finished. It will run anything available today and see us a good stretch into the future. TOTAL SO FAR: £584.84 That's reasonable for a rig like this.
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Ouch.) Oh, and unless you're willing to learn Linux, you'll need a copy of Windows 7. Now £83.99 is cheap for a drive that size. Last year I bought a 500GB drive for about fifty quid. I was reliably informed by a tech journalist that this is due to severe flooding in Thailand, where most drives are made. HDD's are extremely expensive at the moment. (You may have noticed there's one vital component I've missed – the hard drive. You can get a case that's perfectly adequate for £17.99. Many people buy expensive cases because they look pretty: these people are stupid. DVD drives are cheap these days, so you can easily get one for £13.99. Arguably the next most important piece is the power supply: we need to ensure it can handle the juice the computer requires. This Gigabyte board is compatible with all the aforementioned components and costs £34.74. We'll double that, and spend £54.59 on this lovely 8GB stick. The system requirements for BF3 stipulate a quad-core and a GTX 560, so we'll go for a six-core AMD Phenom II at £111.59 and a GTX 560ti costing £173.99.
This rig is an example of price, not a recommendation of hardware. Those are personal choices that I'm not going to make for you. In terms of performance, the most important (and therefore expensive) components are the processor and the graphics card - Nvidia or ATI, Intel or AMD. (NB: All prices were correct at the time of writing at the end of November). They both do good deals that help cut costs. I get most of my gear from Aria, though some of this rig is from the more popular Scan. For the record, here are BF3's recommended system requirements. The most graphically demanding game right now is Battlefield 3, and is likely to remain so for the foreseeable future. Rigging+Up Ideally, we want a PC that can run all the latest games on their highest settings to maximise the benefits the PC can offer, but without breaking the bank. If you've avoided taking the PC plunge because of cost, you might find something here to change your mindset.
We're going to examine the cost of running both a new PC rig and a new console set-up over a period of three years, looking at all the accumulated costs during that time, and see how they stack up. So I decided to ask my good friend Maths for an answer. Few people stop to question whether PC gaming actually is more expensive than console gaming, and why would they? When you can buy an Xbox for £200, and a top-end graphics card can cost twice that, the question barely seems worth asking.īut I've always been sceptical about the presumed price-gap. It's one of the most steadfast assumptions amongst gamers, an argument that crops up in almost every forum thread when the letters "P" and "C" are placed alongside one another.
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