Help Me Make This Decision!

[Aenama]

ok guys...as I said before my B-day is coming up soon,I was planning on getting the 360....but now I kinda want this (http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?Item=N82E16814150204)
What do you guys think?

[VictimOfScience]

Tough call. Same one I am going to have to make next year. Just depends on what you want to play right away. There's not a whole lot out right now that can really justify the purchase of either right now imho. 360 has a couple of games I want, but I can wait until the price drops (or until the big 3 hit). A new GPU will only be cheaper in a few months, so who knows. I guess I'm the wrong person to be commenting because I am torn by similar issues...:x

[Ren.182]

What do you have in your computer at the moment.

If you've got something semi-decent then I'd wait a while before you buy one of those if I were you. They'll come down in price pretty quickly I bet.

[Stigmata]

Even an 8800GTS is no guarantee that you'll get great performance. Even if you have a GREAT computer to back it up.

[AKIRA]

^ Why not?

[Stigmata]

^ Why not?This will become less of a problem once DX10 becomes standard, but it's an inherent problem with developing games for the PC: You have to make the game work on millions of different hardware configurations, each with different speeds and sets of capabilities. Whereas with a console, the games are developed to make the absolute best use of one single, consistent set of hardware - you have much more time to spend making engine systems work as fast as possible on that one configuration, rather than, say, spending hours and hours working on getting a graphical effect to display properly on every videocard that's been made since 2004.

[AKIRA]

ahhh, i see your point.

[Stigmata]

ahhh, i see your point.Thank Science you're rational :p I thought I was going to end up arguing this point for pages.

[Ennui]

Don't get a 360 and definitely don't get the 8800.

Get a Wii, several Wiimotes, a few launch titles, and then save $50 for SSB:Brawl in March.

Also, get FFXII for PS2, Company of Heroes and Dawn of War: Dark Crusade for PC.

[Raxxman]

I also wouldn't get the 8800.

Prices of cards will drop sharper than prices of the Xbox 360. And very few games need that much grunt currently.

[Aenama]

What do you have in your computer at the moment.

If you've got something semi-decent then I'd wait a while before you buy one of those if I were you. They'll come down in price pretty quickly I bet.


a 7800GT and a AMD 3500

[Stigmata]

a 7800GT and a AMD 3500Your 3500 will be an enormous bottleneck if you pick up the 8800. In order for that card to be worth the price, you'd also need to pick up a new CPU and motherboard, and then probably new RAM and a new PSU...

[Agent.M]

Being neither PC nor Console fanboy I would still say go with the 360+GoW=Win! Im planing on upgrading my GPU sometime in the near future as well but I wouldnt recommend doing this now or anytime soon.

[Aenama]

Your 3500 will be an enormous bottleneck if you pick up the 8800. In order for that card to be worth the price, you'd also need to pick up a new CPU and motherboard, and then probably new RAM and a new PSU...


its a 64 bit AMD...I thought it was still good :(

[Stigmata]

its a 64 bit AMD...I thought it was still good :(Ahh. Better... Is it dualcore?

[Aenama]

nope sadly it isnt.... ;(

[Ennui]

a 3500'll bottleneck an 8800 regardless of whether its dc or 64, you need a 3800 at least id think

[Aenama]

oh...well,I guess I could just save up then..I will have to think about it more though.

[Ennui]

it's ridiculous to get an 8800 right now anyway

[Ren.182]

You current set-up aint too bad though. It'll run most current games on high at a decent res. Just wait it out. Prices will drop and more games will come out to actually make use of the technology.

And the 3500 still aint a bad CPU. Just multi-core CPU's are kicking in now.

I'd say get a console, or a nice monitor/tv. I'd recommend a Wii too :)

[X-FacToR]

Im in pretty much the exact same situation you are 7800gt / 3.0ghz, I vote you get a 360 and hold off untill next year on pc upgrades, thats what ive done & plan on doing.

[Stigmata]

I recommend the Xbox 360 with its good shooters, but the Wii somewhat moreso because it has Zelda and a bunch of really fun-looking games. Gogo Excite Truck and SMB Banana Blitz?

[Warbie]

I'd be torn between a Wii or 360.

[Aenama]

it's ridiculous to get an 8800 right now anyway

it's all because of Stern's Crysis Thread :(

[Mattigus]

Wait for directx 10 to actually come out. By then, it'll be cheaper, or there will be a better card out for the same price.

[Sainku]

Whatever you end up doing, don't get the 8800 anytime soon. Remember how bad the first-gen of nvidia's dx9 cards ended up being. At least wait till things start using dx10 and nvidia has some competetion.

[Acepilotf14]

360 all da way. I also might get the Wii if I dont get a new computer for X-mas.

[Fliko]

Get a 360. I love mine, anyways the 8800 is first gen, always stay away from first gen in the video card world

[Ennui]

360 is lame... but Gears of War is amazing, I've been watching people play it at work and it's the single best looking console game I've ever seen