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Slappers Only · Sep 30, 2013

So, I just got a new rig from work. 128gb of RAM, two or three Titans in it. Intel core... whatever or some shit.

This thing is blasting through games like a hot knife through butter. Outputting to two 60" Pioneer Kuros right now, and I can't believe what I'm seeing. As I'm tearing through the highest-end games like they're a joke, I realize that the visual "wow" factor for upgrading to new consoles will be all but lost on me.

And I was thinking that, okay, this is an exception. Most people wouldn't have access to this kind of setup. But that's not true. Even with the PS4, big deal -- I could have built that PC two years ago.

My laptop from 2008 is smaller, quieter, and by all accounts, performs better.

Maybe Kinect will do something that makes the Xbone a differentiated experience. Who knows. But for all the people who "care" about performance, and cite it as a reason to buy one console over another, what the hell is stopping you from just building a better PC two years ago?

Timed exclusives? Please.

I have seen the top of the mountain, and it is good.

Hoo-doo · Sep 30, 2013

Now make it play Uncharted and Halo.

shakin_haitian · Sep 30, 2013

Good for you!

Tsundere · Sep 30, 2013

It doesn't really matter if your TVs are 60", it's still 1080p.

And btw, your 2-3 TITANS are already $2-3k.

SwiftDeath · Sep 30, 2013

Wow award for most condescending OP ever?

morikaze · Sep 30, 2013

NoRéN · Sep 30, 2013

Not having a time machine.

Special C · Sep 30, 2013

First Post wins.

alr1ght · Sep 30, 2013

Your PC didn't cost $400.

flatearthpandas · Sep 30, 2013

Exclusives.
But mostly brand loyalty.

Hope you're dressed like a fireman.

CookTrain · Sep 30, 2013

The initial load time for GTAV seems to be quite sluggish as well

FallingEdge · Sep 30, 2013

What do you do for a living? Animation?

Sub_Level · Sep 30, 2013

Halo had a superb PC version. And Tomb Raider is already on Steam.

lt519 · Sep 30, 2013

Don't forget Mario (;

Ark · Sep 30, 2013

Oh yay it's one of these threads.

Congrats on discovering what high-end graphics look like.

Shame it's an overhyped piece of crap.

hurzelein · Sep 30, 2013

399€ to 800-2000€ maybe?

PotionBleue · Sep 30, 2013

Do you work for Nvidia PR?

Mr_Antimatter · Sep 30, 2013

First post is best post.

Ledsen · Sep 30, 2013

Literally thousand upon thousands of games to play, why care so much about a special few?

shinobi602 · Sep 30, 2013

Ebomb · Sep 30, 2013

In the tortoise and the hare, didnt the hare troll the tortoise the entire race before losing? My nursery rhyme memory is foggy today.

Slappers Only · Sep 30, 2013

You don't need this PC.

djplaeskool · Sep 30, 2013

How many thousands did that cost?

TronLight · Sep 30, 2013

"In your face, console gamer!"

Still, I don't care. Exclusive are exclusive, that's why I'm buying a PS4 even if I have a PC that is on par with it.

Dyno · Sep 30, 2013

Looks like another spawn of the master race has wriggled its way through the birth canal. Congrats!

Stable platforms, something for devs. to target on multi-year projects, install base, yadda yadda.

EightBitNate · Sep 30, 2013

Yup

Enjoy your word documents and photoshop, op

def sim · Sep 30, 2013

this is satire isn't it

banjo5150 · Sep 30, 2013

Exactly its all about the exclusives to me. I can't wait to see MLB The Show in PS4.

Arkos · Sep 30, 2013

Yeah nice brag thread?

Dennis · Sep 30, 2013

BronsonLee · Sep 30, 2013

Sec guys I'm gonna buy this possibly $5k+ computer

And I'll go out on a limb and say your 2008 laptop won't perform better.

PC Master Race is nice and all, but sometimes there's fringe outfits that gotta be knocked back into the reality of 'I don't want to spend that much goddamn money'.

KillerMan91 · Sep 30, 2013

So how are you enjoying GTA? Oh wait....

vilmer_ · Sep 30, 2013

TheBioLover · Sep 30, 2013

Contender for worst thread of the year?

Krakn3Dfx · Sep 30, 2013

We're not worthy.

Neuromancer · Sep 30, 2013

Yay let's get all the militant PC guys in here to shit on the consoles. That's always fun.

FACE · Sep 30, 2013

I think using that beastly rig to play good games would be a better use of one's time.

def sim · Sep 30, 2013

i mean it obviously is

Gxgear · Sep 30, 2013

Why do you assume people don't have a high end PC? Where was your "new rig from work. 128gb of RAM, two or three Titans in it. Intel core... whatever or some shit" 2 years ago?

Prince Vultan · Sep 30, 2013

So this thread is basically just OP autofellatio then?

-Eddman- · Sep 30, 2013

Not everyone is living in countries where high-end PC gaming plus high electricity bills are affordable. I would love to play like that but here where I live a single good GPU is as much as an entire rig in the US.

The_Hitcher89 · Sep 30, 2013

Is there anything as annoying online as a smug PC gamer?

Hurf · Sep 30, 2013

Best thread, or worst thread?

KORNdoggy · Sep 30, 2013

Because there is a reason they are the "special" few. They're better then most of those thousands upon thousands.

Lord Error · Sep 30, 2013

Good for you having a nice work like that. Not wanting to spend 1000+ on a machine that I would use to just play games occasionally is what was stopping most people to build something like that two years ago. I'm also really curious what kind of beast laptop did you get five years ago that has such performance.

SHADES · Sep 30, 2013

Your post is all well & good OP but for many average Joe's our work doesn't supply us with the top of the mountain and our pay doesn't even scratch it.

vpance · Sep 30, 2013

Why care so much about multiplats? They're all dumbed down in some way anyhow.

Hoo-doo · Sep 30, 2013

You sure showed us!

Manu · Sep 30, 2013

Congrats on the sex

Skelter · Sep 30, 2013

Hell 360 users don't even like Halo 4.

Come on Halo 3 come to steam!

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