Top of the line PC vs. X-BOX. Plus a little venting

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Perknose

Forum Director & Omnipotent Overlord
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Smacknut, this is just the wrong bunch of folks to show up in front of and tell them you just spent $4,200 on a 'puter mainly to play games . . . and now you're disappointed! We'll just tear you a new vacancy, motel man!!

And don't worry about Red Dawn, he's a charm school dropout, but one of the finest and most knowledgeable folks you'll ever have the opportunity to be insulted by.

Red might say something like, "Erin Shores Motel? Green tinged sheets don't make you Irish, putz, use bleach and change them occasionally!", but, of course, I wouldn't. That would just be mean.

On a more helpful note, I DO have some Pentagon surplus toilet seats you may be interested in, only $900 per. Nothing says "class" like a motel room with it's very own flip down toilet seat cover.
 

Zwingle

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I don't believe you bought the first one......especially after looking at the motel you "own"
 

khtm

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<< So you guys don't suggest i buy another one for my wife. >>



haha!
naaaaa...

It's funny - I just priced out my new computer yesterday. TOP OF THE LINE (IDE). The mobo I want isn't even available yet.

Dual Athlon RAID goodness :D
4 60gb ata133 hds in RAID 0+1
ATI Radeon All In Wonder 8500DV
1GB PC2100
Lian Li case
....drool :p

anyway, it came to about $2700 Canadian (without a monitor, of course). Now, you spent $4200 US = about $7000 Canadian. ;)

-khtm-
 

amnesiac

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I have an O.G. Thunderbird 750 that I haven't upgraded for months and it still runs everything just fine. I'll stick to my PS2 for gaming, thankyouverymuch.
 

Perknose

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Smacknut, by all means buy another one for your wife, just, LOL, buy it from ME! I'll even throw in a free Pentagon surplus toilet seat cover (a $900 value)!!
 

Smacknut

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Can't you geeks take a joke. Go out to the sun light once in a while. My friend down the street has a $800,000.00 he us 3 months out of the year now thats over spending. and new cars in the drivway everytime they show up. Now that must be nice. $600. extra to pay someone to build some thing for me is not that bad. I did price it all out on price watch. $600 to have the best out there is not bad. That $4200 included networking my house too. Plus 10 games, sony f520 21" visiontek ti500, 2 60 gb raid, asus 266-e, 1024mgram plus much more . And it is only for gaming right now And of course to run the motel software then it opens again next spring. Winters off are great. see ya.

Could someone just get the cheaters out of counter-strike. Please.
 

StageLeft

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Cheaters did ruin counterstrike, but most of us here could make that computer out of parts in an hour or two. I wouldn't charge ya $300/hour either :)
 

777joee

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Smacknut,


"A fool and his money will soon be parted"




I guess if you have that much you deserve what you get for spending so foolishly.




Go spend more time with your kids and don't worry so much abut CS.




You will be happier in the end and so will they.
 

vash

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Lets look at this for a second:

$4200 on a new computer.
$100/month for DSL.
$30 for Half-Life.
Price on this guy's face when beaten by a $0 wallhack/aimbot?

Priceless. :p

vash
 

Cuular

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Why the hell would anyone raid 0+1 just two drives? The whole idea of raid is to distribute the work across more than one drive to speed up accesses. But if you mirror it onto the same two drives that you are raiding then you are just shooting yourself in the foot and causing your drives to burnout about 10 times faster than normal. Slowing yourself down aince you are copying the data twice to the same two drives...
 

dcpsoguy

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Dwell,

You may be able to get up to 1600x1200 on PC, and only 640x480 on a console... yet, when I look at Halo or Final Fantasy X, then a top of the line game with some supposedly good graphics on the PC, the different is apparent.

Consoles have better graphics.

Point made. Discussion ended.
 

Rage187

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I have to agree.


i keep my puter up to date 1.4tb, GF3, 19in, and it can't hold a candle to Halo's graphics..


xbox does 1080i


If I could only get a HDTV..
 

Rage187

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If I had a HDTV, I'd tell you:D




anybody have an extra HDTY sitting around, I'll promise I'll post pics..
 

dcpsoguy

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Exactly. I haven't seen a PC game that holds a candle to Halo on the XBOX.

PC Gaming is expensive, and overrated. Sure, I like PC Gaming, but console gaming is oh so much better