Hoping I might get into some games over the winter. I have been busy just lately with lots of training so just haven't got around to turning on to play games. But, after next week I can knock back the training a bit and hopefully have more energy to play instead...

You have spent more on console hardware in last 3 years than I have on my PC.

PC gaming is cheaper not the other way round.

You didn't read what i said really now did you,im not on about the cost of consoles but the fact you have to download install drivers, patches this and that, update this ,update that ?

Yes we have patches on the consoles but they install automatically, and if the playstation Pro had not reared its ugly head you wouldn't be saying that either.

And i might promote what i buy on here but you don't so we will never know exactly how much you spend

I understood what you meant by easy in that respect yes, with a console you just plug it in and its setup for the most part.

For my PC I brought a gtx1070 with about 2/3 of the cost offset by selling my 970, that is pretty much it in the past 3 years. Approx net cost of £140
Within the 3 years my 970 was purchased also but I managed to fully fund it when selling my gtx 760. So was a zero cost purchase.

The monitor was brought for work reasons so not included it, likewise you can exclude your new tv

My cpu/board was purchased just outside of the 3 years

Ok actually I lie there is 2 keyboards circa £10 each and a usb headphone amp which was £8. So another £28.

Edited by Chrysalis (Thu 27-Oct-16 18:14:34)

You know I may well end up just sticking to the PS4, I don't have a lot of time for gaming and often don't have the enthusiasm either. All I was really thinking was to build a PC that would give me the option of sticking in a GPU at a later date if I decided to.

Other than puffing a bit in such a small case, my 390X will max just about everything, because I play on a TV.

Not worrying about resolutions above 1080p, and only needing to achieve 60fps, means I get to try and push anti-aliasing to individual games highest settings. Jaggies be gone!

But I am curious to see what it could output on a 4K screen, medium settings with all the bells and whistles turned off. Just to see to what extent all those extra pixels negate the need for aliasing.

well I only play on 1440p now because I wanted the extra desktop space for multitasking.

But as proven with gta5 if I have to I will drop the resolution, I think anything at around 1080p upwards should be good enough for modern gaming deoending on the game been played. Some games like mario probably will be fine at 720p.

What some people dont realise is if the core image is aliased, then no amount of resolution increasing will fix it, it can only be fixed by MSAA or post processing. One reason why I think the hype for 4k etc. has gone way overboard.

Edited by Chrysalis (Fri 28-Oct-16 02:06:08)

nice video here

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=n6qAoDquTgo

Cheers, he has some interesting vids

some info here

i3 beating amd's best cpu in BF1

https://youtu.be/MSkpyuLgsoI?t=2m59s

also in skyrim the i3 beats amds best cpu as well. The problem AMD have got is they not just worse on per core performance, they are a 'lot' worse, and its too much for extra cores to bridge. This is why a couple of us advised you to wait for zen.

Edited by Chrysalis (Mon 07-Nov-16 16:21:35)