The £139 Gaming PC challenge thread [Build Found]

[Delusibeta]

So based on that eBay link that Delusi posted, it would be cheaper to to kit yourself out with a PC to play Crysis 3 multiplayer for more than a month by about £25 compared to getting it on 360? That's quite ridiculous how good the value is there.

I won't guarantee it'll run *well* but it'll probably run better than whatever RRoD'd piece of junk Rik has lined up for similar money.

(And yes, you can get PCs for less than a year of Gold. Not terribly good ones, but PCs nonetheless)

[chalkitdown]

Watching people argue with Rik...

[Pedz]

Didn't we have this exact thread a few years back, and by the same people? Or can I now dream the future?

[Lex-Man]

To get an xbox with the bits I needed to play it about 6 months after launch cost me £279.99

That was the launch price for the 20gb system, the Arcade version was £219.99

Which had no hard drive and so required a memory card, which probably was another £20 on top, and rapidly became unusable as the updates and DLC rolled in.

It also lacked a hdmi port.

[DaveDS]

I think it might be possible at that price by taking a midrange AMD APU, and pairing it with the cheapest possible ram, motherboard, and case/PSU, keyboard/mouse combo's you could find. Why would anyone want to do that though?

[Rik]

Wow Rik, all this because you got schooled in the PGGT thread?

For those not up on the backstory, Rik is currently suffering from a severe case of butt burn because he was convinced you cant build a decent PC for less than the price of a 360, and then when i posted video evidence that i had not only thought of such an idea, but actually built a PC whose parts were worth a grand total of £119 on ebay, he proceeded to cry his little heart out about it not being fair, that i was somehow breaking his unwritten ruleset and must now source all my parts from shops only, and must include a plethora of peripherals.

Mafro rightly deleted all his shitposting and now after suffering extreme anal anguish his bum bum needs soothing balm, hence this thread.

Rik, seek help, please. This kind of shitposting isnt natural.

Do it then, I'm willing to pay like for like.

I can get an Xbox 360 for £136.41 or a PS3 for £129.99 delivered NEW. Build a PC from scratch for the same or less NEW that can outperform the console versions or match them.

[Rik]

I think it might be possible at that price by taking a midrange AMD APU, and pairing it with the cheapest possible ram, motherboard, and case/PSU, keyboard/mouse combo's you could find. Why would anyone want to do that though?

Lets do it, if it can be done.

[Lex-Man]

It's a doesn't seem that much of a stretch to build a second hand machine for that much tbh.

[TheTurnipKing]

Once again I point you to the £150 Zoostorm. It's not a perfect price match (and will be slightly higher still when an OS is taken into account) but if it comes to buying a console or a slightly more expensive machine that can't properly surf the internet or run office software you'd have to be stark staring bonkers to take the console.

[Rik]

It's a doesn't seem that much of a stretch to build a second hand machine for that much tbh.

Like I said, then I can go to a used 360 or PS3 which drops the budget to about £50.

If we're going to have a like for like comparison then lets do it. Who knows maybe it is possible.

[Cal]

It's real. I will buy the parts myself and donate this gaming monster to a contributor.
Or we could hold a raffle and donate the proceeds to Grcade.

How about someone just sources all the parts, links and all so you can verify it, and then you just donate the cost to a children's charity or something? Do any of us really need it? You get to feel good, nobody gets hurt.

[Rik]

Once again I point you to the £150 Zoostorm. It's not a perfect price match (and will be slightly higher still when an OS is taken into account) but if it comes to buying a console or a slightly more expensive machine that can't properly surf the internet or run office software you'd have to be stark staring bonkers to take the console.

Well that's the closest so far, surely a bit could be shaved off if it was self build though? It has to run Crysis 3 at least at console standard though, that's the point.

[Rik]

It's real. I will buy the parts myself and donate this gaming monster to a contributor.
Or we could hold a raffle and donate the proceeds to Grcade.

How about someone just sources all the parts, links and all so you can verify it, and then you just donate the cost to a children's charity or something? Do any of us really need it? You get to feel good, nobody gets hurt.

We can do whatever people want to do with it, we have to build it and benchmark it though to prove it can run the game. Then we can do whatever with it.

[Delusibeta]

(psst, Rik has yet to source his £50 used 360, lowest price I've seen is £55 used excluding delivery, and it's a version 1 stuff so it's probably RRoD'd)

[Meep]

I think your best bet is to bay a second hand office pc and then blow all the rest of your money on ram and new graphics.

[TheTurnipKing]

Once again I point you to the £150 Zoostorm. It's not a perfect price match (and will be slightly higher still when an OS is taken into account) but if it comes to buying a console or a slightly more expensive machine that can't properly surf the internet or run office software you'd have to be stark staring bonkers to take the console.

Well that's the closest so far, surely a bit could be shaved off if it was self build though? It has to run Crysis 3 at least at console standard though, that's the point.

I can't find much footage of those specs running Crysis - just a Crysis 3 multiplayer beta, which is definately performing sub xbox frame rates.



I don't know if you'd shave off much price wise for a self build at the low end like this, though you could almost certainly source better performing parts for the same price over the low end AMD APU. (I'd expect the build that Deli put together would probably outperform the Zoostorm, but the Zoostorm has the advantage of being orderable in one place, and since it's from Ebuyer, no delivery charges).

So tentatively we're about what, £50 or £60 over your budget for a significantly more flexible system that can nevertheless hope to turn a decent performance on many Xbox 360 level titles.

[Rik]

Once again I point you to the £150 Zoostorm. It's not a perfect price match (and will be slightly higher still when an OS is taken into account) but if it comes to buying a console or a slightly more expensive machine that can't properly surf the internet or run office software you'd have to be stark staring bonkers to take the console.

Well that's the closest so far, surely a bit could be shaved off if it was self build though? It has to run Crysis 3 at least at console standard though, that's the point.

I can't find much footage of those specs running Crysis - just a Crysis 3 multiplayer beta, which is definately performing sub xbox frame rates.

I don't know if you'd shave off much price wise for a self build at the low end like this, though you could almost certainly source better performing parts for the same price over the low end AMD APU.

Well my sons laptop cost £429 at Xmas, it has 8gb Ram, a HD7640 in a quad core APU and that easily outperforms my 360 on Crysis 2, Skyrim and Bioshock Infinite. So without the screen and less Ram we wouldn't be far away.

[Banjo]

I will graciously accept any PC that gets built as a result of this thread.

[HSH28]

I'd like to see exactly what happened in the PCGT to apparently trigger this, as all it looks like to me is Rik challenging the forum to spend his money, and PC fans declaring him 'bumpain'.

Rik rolled into the PCGT thread, declared that you can't find a PC that can run Crysis 3 for less than an Xbox 360 (i.e. £139). Berlappin rolled in, showed off his £120 build, and Rik moved the goalposts, demanding NEW parts and LINKS to everything. Posts have since been deleted since it was blatant and brazen trolling and console warring, which I'm sure is against the rules of this forum (and certainly against the rules of this thread).

That's bullshit though, because you can't build a PC that will run Crysis 3 for anything like that money.

In order to run Crysis 3 on a PC you'll need to pay for an OS which I presume he didn't include. I also wouldn't say that demanding new parts in comparison against a new console was anything like moving the goal posts.

I fail to see the problem in admitting that PCs are more expensive than consoles. Throwing up a load of nonsense and calling anyone that disagrees with you 'but-hurt' (which by the way has to one of the most ridiculous insults out there) just makes it look like owning a PC regresses people back to their childhoods.

[Delusibeta]

So tentatively we're about what, £50 or £60 over your budget for a significantly more flexible system that can nevertheless hope to turn a decent performance on many Xbox 360 level titles.

Considering that Rik is continuing to ignore stuff like Gold subscription, extra storage space (if he insists on using a console with no hard drive as his benchmark) and stuff, I think that the £20 difference can be overlooked.