"upgrading" mine would involve replacing EVERYTHING except the drives and PCI cards, which would total for well above that 600 that will last me a minimum of 5 years...
To play UT3 for me would mean spending at least $300 to play the game decently. That would be for the video card alone, not the motherboard, memory, and new processor. I would have to spend two times the cost of a PS3 to actually be able to play UT3 with the same graphical fidelity and quality as the PS3-- all bells and whistles at a resolution of at least 1280x1024, or if have the monitor, 1920x1200. So, $600 will not get me a PC able to play this game decently.
the 600$ budget worked for my PC =] Love my 8800 =] from what I've seen in the past decade consoles have been turning into low cost PCs, providing some level of expandability (storage/communications/wireless guitar =D) while still maintaining software compatibility... This has happened before (look back into the history of the microprocessor)...the first PC was born this way =]. I bet that a decade(being conservative) from now you'll be able to run the SAME code, install the same OS (probably virtualization will take place) on your PlayStation "5" and on your XBox( 8Pi ) and on your generic home made Pc =]
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Nubaeus @ Aug 4th 2007 10:52PM
...just spend the 600 to upgrade your comp and buy the game for the PC if you're so set on using mouse and keyboard.
AlexP @ Aug 4th 2007 10:59PM
"upgrading" mine would involve replacing EVERYTHING except the drives and PCI cards, which would total for well above that 600 that will last me a minimum of 5 years...
Ben @ Aug 4th 2007 11:01PM
...or maybe I already have PS3 and don't want to spend another $600 to upgrade my computer every year.
JJ @ Aug 5th 2007 12:07AM
To play UT3 for me would mean spending at least $300 to play the game decently. That would be for the video card alone, not the motherboard, memory, and new processor. I would have to spend two times the cost of a PS3 to actually be able to play UT3 with the same graphical fidelity and quality as the PS3-- all bells and whistles at a resolution of at least 1280x1024, or if have the monitor, 1920x1200. So, $600 will not get me a PC able to play this game decently.
Proteus1935 @ Aug 5th 2007 1:24PM
the 600$ budget worked for my PC =]
Love my 8800 =] from what I've seen in the past decade consoles have been turning into low cost PCs, providing some level of expandability (storage/communications/wireless guitar =D) while still maintaining software compatibility... This has happened before (look back into the history of the microprocessor)...the first PC was born this way =].
I bet that a decade(being conservative) from now you'll be able to run the SAME code, install the same OS (probably virtualization will take place) on your PlayStation "5" and on your XBox( 8Pi ) and on your generic home made Pc =]