I did it , I bought a 360

[QUOTE="Cait__Sith"][QUOTE="gamecubepad"]

You my friend are the embodiment of hermit elitism.

Bringing a single core Celeron 1.6GHz cpu to battle against a triple core, dual-threaded 3.2GHz cpu. What a joke.

I won't bother pointing out all the fallacies in your post, but the fact that you would recommend such an unbalanced PC shows you are desperate.

gamecubepad

Desperate hermit resorting to the emachines pre-built like all desperate hermits do, and it's still more expensive by far. Not to mention TigerDirect doesn't sell 8800GTs, just 9800GT for $80. With shipping and the 9800GT it's about $300 for a piece of crap.

Your first build runs COD4 at 10-15fps, while the 360 hits 60fps. So it's about 1/4 as powerful as a 360. Fail.

Your second build is piece of junk and uses a single core cpu and has a 250w Power Supply that will fry after 10min. of Crysis or the like. Fail.

I can't believe you would put a video card that requires a 450W psu with a 250W psu and single core cpu. That's just plain wrong.

$200 arcade
$100 Wifi N
$100 HDD
$50 1 year online

[QUOTE="gamecubepad"]

[QUOTE="Cait__Sith"] lol like I said the 8800GT does the physics anyways the CPU doesn't matter. :lol: unbalanced PC. You keep talking about a gaming but when I show you a PC capable of beating out the 360 suddenly its CPU is bad. :lol: And desperate is you who ignored the video I showed you, and game me some numbers instead. Cait__Sith

Desperate hermit resorting to the emachines pre-built like all desperate hermits do, and it's still more expensive by far. Not to mention TigerDirect doesn't sell 8800GTs, just 9800GT for $80. With shipping and the 9800GT it's about $300 for a piece of crap.

Your first build runs COD4 at 10-15fps, while the 360 hits 60fps. So it's about 1/4 as powerful as a 360. Fail.

Your second build is piece of junk and uses a single core cpu and has a 250w Power Supply that will fry after 10min. of Crysis or the like. Fail.

I can't believe you would put a video card that requires a 450W psu with a 250W psu and single core cpu. That's just plain wrong.

Lame.

An Ion seems about as powerful as a 2400xt 256MB ddr2. Multiple benchmarks confirm this.

You recommend an Emachines with single core 1.6GHz Celeron + 250W crap psu with a 9800GT and you're telling me I seem like I've never built a comp. Yet, you parade this crap around like it's better to have a junk comp like the 2 you proposed instead of $200 360, or $300 PS3.

Please, stop with the hermit elitism already.

Get ready to buy another one in 6 months. Oh M$, its like stealing.

[QUOTE="Cait__Sith"]

[QUOTE="gamecubepad"]

Desperate hermit resorting to the emachines pre-built like all desperate hermits do, and it's still more expensive by far. Not to mention TigerDirect doesn't sell 8800GTs, just 9800GT for $80. With shipping and the 9800GT it's about $300 for a piece of crap.

Your first build runs COD4 at 10-15fps, while the 360 hits 60fps. So it's about 1/4 as powerful as a 360. Fail.

Your second build is piece of junk and uses a single core cpu and has a 250w Power Supply that will fry after 10min. of Crysis or the like. Fail.

I can't believe you would put a video card that requires a 450W psu with a 250W psu and single core cpu. That's just plain wrong.

gamecubepad

Lame.

An Ion seems about as powerful as a 2400xt 256MB ddr2. Multiple benchmarks confirm this.

You recommend an Emachines with single core 1.6GHz Celeron + 250W crap psu with a 9800GT and you're telling me I seem like I've never built a comp. Yet, you parade this crap around like it's better to have a junk comp like the 2 you proposed instead of $200 360, or $300 PS3.

Please, stop with the hermit elitism already.

[QUOTE="Cait__Sith"]blah blah blah.

And you keep going on talking about "a junk PC" when the 360 has the worst hardware. And then you resort to name calling with this whole "hermit elitism" crap.

gamecubepad

Behold hermit elitism at it's finest.

"This should shut you up"

"You don't know much do you"

Those are your lines hermit, after I owned you and your junk builds.

I asked you to build a comp that equals a 360 for $200 and you put forth a htpc that plays COD4 at 10-15fps(at best) with medium settings and 2xAA, and that's with 2GB DDR2-1066, not 1GB like your build which doesn't even have DVD drive, but it's still at least $215. $215 for 10fps in COD4 at 360 quality, while the 360 runs 60fps.

Then you throw out a total junk emachines with Celeron 1.6GHz cpu and 250W psu with a video card that requires a 450W psu. :roll:

Your builds are the definition of junk.

[QUOTE="Killfox"][QUOTE="superapo"]

congrats, just in time for the release of mass effects 2 and conviction.

Cait__Sith

Yeah PC really makes the 360 worthless aside from the odd exclusive.

[QUOTE="gamecubepad"]

[QUOTE="Cait__Sith"]blah blah blah.

And you keep going on talking about "a junk PC" when the 360 has the worst hardware. And then you resort to name calling with this whole "hermit elitism" crap.

Cait__Sith

Behold hermit elitism at it's finest.

"This should shut you up"

"You don't know much do you"

Those are your lines hermit, after I owned you and your junk builds.

I asked you to build a comp that equals a 360 for $200 and you put forth a htpc that plays COD4 at 10-15fps(at best) with medium settings and 2xAA, and that's with 2GB DDR2-1066, not 1GB like your build which doesn't even have DVD drive, but it's still at least $215. $215 for 10fps in COD4 at 360 quality, while the 360 runs 60fps.

Then you throw out a total junk emachines with Celeron 1.6GHz cpu and 250W psu with a video card that requires a 450W psu. :roll:

Your builds are the definition of junk.

Please.

Here's 3 separate benchmarks, all using either superior CPUs or better(more) RAM...

#1

This is with no AA, minimum settings. 2xAA and medium settings would put it right down at 10-15fps. Not to mention they're using 2GB DDR2-1066, not 1GB like your build...

#2

Once again they're using 2GB ddr2-1066...

#3

"Call of Duty 4: 1280×800, optimal settings: 23.9 FPS, falls to 11 in complex scenes."

Not a Ion build, but still uses the 9400M. That's without 2xAA at minimum settings, not medium. I could see it dropping to 5fps in complex scences with 2xAA at medium settings. That's with a Core 2 Duo and 2GB RAM.

Since you like to diss Tom's Hardware, how about we go on there with your junk builds and see what they think?

Once again just for fun...

Here's a challenge. Let's use Newegg exclusively. New parts only, shipping included, rebates excluded.

1. Build a rig including 64-bit OS for $400 and see what you get.

2. Build a rig including new OS for $200 and see if you can get gfx like this...

Then you throw out a total junk emachines with Celeron 1.6GHz cpu and 250W psu with a video card that requires a 450W psu. :roll:

Your builds are the definition of junk.

gamecubepad

you would trust this psu more?

you would trust this psu more?

*shows 360 psu*

SLIisaownsystem

Certainly would since RROD is most likely a solder problem and Jasper units have around a 5% failure rate.

If your 360 fails within 3yrs MS replaces it for free. When that junk 250W psu fails you risk your complete system with no warranty.

Considering someone here like to complain about my PC builds here's one...

FREE SHIPPING ALL FROM TIGER DIRECT:

• ATI4550 - $49.99

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=4843027&CatId=3670

• OXM 450watt PSU - $19.99

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5371861&sku=S19-4040

• Dual Core E3200 Processor 2.4ghz - $49.99

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5235310&sku=I69-3201

• eMachines ET1810-01 Desktop Computer - $179.99

http://www.tigerdirect.com/applications/SearchTools/item-details.asp?EdpNo=5390933&sku=W180-3190

All this for a grand total of $299.96 (what do you know the same price as a 360)

So rundown:

• DVD drive
• Emachines Case/mobo
• ATI 4550 GPU
• Intel Dual Core 2.4gh CPU
• 2GB DDR2 ram
• 450watt PSU
• 160GB HDD
• Windows Vista

[QUOTE="SLIisaownsystem"]

you would trust this psu more?

*shows 360 psu*

gamecubepad

Certainly would since RROD is most likely a solder problem and Jasper units have around a 5% failure rate.

If your 360 fails within 3yrs MS replaces it for free. When that junk 250W psu fails you risk your complete system with no warranty.