Xbox One vs Gaming PC - which should I get?

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Original post by King of the Ring

Is PC Specialist a good place to buy a PC?

It would be considerably cheaper to build by yourself but if you don't want to take the four or five hours to research then that's a pretty good place, I suggest Overclockers too.

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JRM3PM

Original post by King of the Ring

Is PC Specialist a good place to buy a PC?

Build one yourself, they're much cheaper.
Most sites are fine ( scan, amazon, ebuyer, ocuk, ect). Amazon is probably the best because they have the best return policy imo.

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King of the Ring

Original post by york_wbu

Build one yourself, they're much cheaper.
Most sites are fine ( scan, amazon, ebuyer, ocuk, ect). Amazon is probably the best because they have the best return policy imo.

Is this rig any good?
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/view/Fusion-650-gaming-pc/

Reply 23

SmellySmeagle

Xbox, while a pc would be better quality NO ONE ELSE YOU WILL KNOW WILL HAVE ONE!!!!!, it gets pretty boring after a while :tongue:

Reply 24

jangoice

Original post by King of the Ring

Is this rig any good?
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/view/Fusion-650-gaming-pc/

Um, no. This is why I suggest building one. It's not exactly bad but it will not do what you need.

Reply 25

LeyK

Original post by Tooly

PS4

This guy knows what's right :beer:

But I would go PC anyday (Not over the PS tho), just because Windows 10 might be compatible to X Bone (something along those lines)
or was it the keyboard controlling on Xbox :lolwut:

Either way DayZ, MC, H1Z1, Arma, Gmod, the list goes on

Reply 26

jangoice

I really suggest researching, if not then buy an xbox as it's ready out of the box and you won't need to upgrade anytime soon.

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King of the Ring

Original post by jangoice

Um, no. This is why I suggest building one. It's not exactly bad but it will not do what you need.

Why is that model bad? Which one there is good then?

Reply 28

CAElite

Original post by King of the Ring

So a £1000 PC that will max out Doom. I will probably have to wait till it is released then.

If I where going to spend a grand on a PC today this is how I would spec it

http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/zByVK8

Leaving £110 for peripherals and stuff if you dont have them. I would expect this to be able to play the vast majority of new releases at there maximum settings with the exception of some that are designed to stress 2k+ systems (i.e GTA5 advance settings, Far Cry 4 etc).

A quick guide in why I chose these parts though:
CPU: i5 K series, gaming PC bread & butter, easily overclockable very reliable chip. Its all you need for gaming. Anyone who tells you you want a desktop i7 for games is talking out of there asses. I went for the last generation as it is no slower than the latest one but means that your RAM and motherboard componants will be cheaper. AMD offer CPUs as well but they really arnt very good, they use old technology and are inneffcient and slow for the most part. If you want to lower your budget drop down to a cheaper i5 or i3. If you are confident at OCing give the intel pentium aniversery a try. It wipes the floor with most i3s and AMD chips in single core optimised games (most of them) well costing buttons.

RAM: 8GB is all you need. any DDR3 chip will be pretty much the same in gaming but I go with mid-high range corsair vengeance because it is a good quality chip without breaking the bank. 16gb and low CAS chips are only worth it if your doing more than just gaming (graphics editing, compiling etc)

GPU: I like the green team. Im sure AMD has a good equivelent but in recent years I have strayed deeply into the Nvidia camp and I dont regret it. 980 is one of the best on the market at the moment, the new 980ti is also good if you want to budget higher, I wouldnt bother with a titan unless again you are doing things other than gaming (3d modeling, video editing etc). If you wanna save money knock it down to a 970 and you will still be golden for most games.

Storage: A reliable 1-2TB secondary storage will probably be all you ever need unless you love your movie torrents, A 120gb or bigger SSD is fantastic to install your OS and some frequently used programs on, you will be able to fit a couple of games on them too, SSD storage will give much faster boot and load times but larger drives are pricey.

Case: placeholder, choose whatever you want that willl fit your system

Motherboard: unless you know what your building and intend to overclock heavily a top of the line mboard is not required. I went for a relativly budget board from a reliable brand (ASUS/Gigabyte/ASRock and some others)

Cooling: If you arnt overclocking a stock cooler would be fine really. I just cant recommend the hyper 212 evo enough for a cheap £20 upgrade as it is and has been pretty much the best budget cooler on the market for the last 8-10 years. It will allow some overclocking on an i5 (~4ghz)

Power Supply: DONT SKIMP ON YOUR PSU! 600w will be plenty for a single GPU i5 system unless you go nuts with HDDs. DO NOT BE TEMPTED TO BUY AN BRANDLESS/UNKNOWN BRAND BUDGET PSU! These have a habit of exploding and ruining all your hardware. DO NOT SKIMP ON YOUR PSU. Corsair/EVGA/Silverstone/CoolerMaster are all good.

Lower Budget? http://uk.pcpartpicker.com/p/cTVDgs Heres a rig for about the same price as a modern console. It can play new titles on medium settings at ~30fps, which is about the same as a modern console gets well also functioning as your PC :smile:

(edited 8 years ago)

Reply 29

JRM3PM

Original post by vis break

Hi I'm not OP but could you tell me the parts you used to build your pc? I'm really interested in this. cheers

CPU:
Low end - G3258
Mid range - fx 6350
High end - 4690k

CPU cooler: Hyper 212 Evo or just use the stock cooler if you don't want to spend too much. It can be upgraded later.

Motherboards don't have much of an effect on performance. Get a midrange motherboard, with oc capability, 4 ram dimm slots, 2+ pcie 16x slots. I'd go for a z87 chipset for the 4690k, h80 for the g3258 or a 970 chipset for the 6350

Ram: 8gb, preferably 2x4gb (2 sticks gives best performance but it doesn't matter too much). Speed and cas latency doesn't matter too much either, 1600mhz cas 9 or better is fine. Just look out for deals.

GPU:
Spend the bulk of your budget on the gpu. It will, by far, have the biggest effect on your pc's gaming performance. Look at game benchmarks to find the best performance you can afford.
gtx 970, r9 290 or r9 390 seem to be the price/performance sweet spot atm.

PSU:
Don't cheap out on the PSU, buy a decent brand. You'll need a 550-650w psu. The 550 ts xfx psu on amazon is a good deal atm.

Storage:
You will obviously need 1-2tb hard drive for your data.
If you have the money, buy a SSD to load your os on. It will make your pc load stuff and boot a lot faster. You can also buy the SSD later, if you want.

Case:
Mainly up to you. Make a decision based on price, aesthetics and reviews.

Shop around on the internet for an os. I saw windows 7 (can be upgraded to windows 10) for just over £10 the other day.

Use hotukdeals.co.uk to find deals. Use partpicker.com to make sure your build is compatible. Buy from any well-known sites (scan, amazon, ebuyer, ocuk, ect). Amazon is probably the best because they have the best return policy imo.

When looking at benchmarks, use actual game benchmarks, not synthetics. Some synthetic websites can be biased.

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a.a.k

Depends how you play games. If its for the performance and cost is no problem then get a PC.

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Reply 31

JRM3PM

Original post by King of the Ring

Is this rig any good?
http://www.pcspecialist.co.uk/view/Fusion-650-gaming-pc/

GPU is very weak.
You could probably get over double the gaming performance, for the same price, if you built it yourself.

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King of the Ring

Original post by york_wbu

GPU is very weak.
You could probably get over double the gaming performance, for the same price, if you built it yourself.

Is there one there which you recommend?

Reply 33

sevchenko

PC gaming isn't for everybody tbh sometimes people are better off keeping things simple with a console

Reply 34

vis break

Original post by york_wbu

In terms of the case, would you say that getting one that is larger in width is ideal in terms of building it first time, or would the more streamlined ones be ok?

Reply 35

JRM3PM

Original post by King of the Ring

Is there one there which you recommend?

For a £600-700 build you should be looking at gtx 970, r9 290 or r9 390.

Reply 36

judogainz

Original post by King of the Ring

I want to play Doom in 2016 when it is released. Should I get it on the Xbox One, or spend £2000 odd on a gaming PC? Will the diffence in quality be vast?

PC master race

Reply 37

King of the Ring

Original post by sevchenko

PC gaming isn't for everybody tbh sometimes people are better off keeping things simple with a console

Doom is the grand daddy of FPS and deserves to be played on a monster gaming rig.

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username612415

Original post by sevchenko

PC gaming isn't for everybody tbh sometimes people are better off keeping things simple with a console

You can set a PC to go directly into Steam's big picture mode after booting up, which can be navigated with a controller. I'm planning to do just that with the PC I'll build later this year that's intended to sit under my TV for couch gaming. It doesn't have to be any more complicated than a console if you don't want it do be :yep:

Reply 39

JRM3PM

Original post by vis break

In terms of the case, would you say that getting one that is larger in width is ideal in terms of building it first time, or would the more streamlined ones be ok?

Wider/larger cases can be easier to work with but it doesn't make too much of a difference. Have a look at what reviewers say about them, they often say if they are easy to work with or not.