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hey everybody Jays two cents here and today I'm coming at you with some epic commentary over the top of some very mediocre gameplay yes that is me playing some team deathmatch on battlefield 3 in the canals map and I would not expect you to be impressed with this gameplay but that's not why we're here today folks we are here today to talk about the common misconception between console and PC gamers that you have to have a super expensive computer to play any game at any reasonable settings and that is simply not true this is my best professor voice so I hope it got my point across that is not true the price of hardware for computers and the price of computers themselves have come down dramatically over the last few years and you can thank the economic downturn for that but either way you win because as luxury items become less and less at the top of people spending list these companies need your business and to do so they have to lower the prices as an example in 2007 I built a gaming machine for a friend we used in 8800 GTX ultra and it was six hundred and ninety nine dollars seven hundred dollars for one graphics card and its prices like that the past that really give that negative stigma of PC gamers are rich and they have to have lots of money to play games and that makes them dorky and we don't like them because we paid two hundred and fifty dollars for our console and we can play the same game yeah I should I probably shouldn't go there I don't want to start that battle of PC versus console but what I am here to tell you is that mike gtx 680 that i bought this year cost four hundred and ninety nine dollars and that is the world's fastest single GPU card on the planet right now so we're talking two hundred dollars difference doing the fastest then and the fastest now and that's a $200 downswing if you're going to build a PC lower prices or what we all want now that that's the pricing for the latest and greatest between then and now but do you need the latest and greatest to play PC games no no you don't you don't need the latest and greatest processor you don't need the fastest memory and you don't need the latest and greatest of the graphics card it's absolutely not necessary to play games games do not take advantage of all of the threads available in the world's fastest CPUs you know the i7 you know the new Ivy Bridge you know running you know eight logical threads yadda yadda yadda I could totally geek out on the specs but games don't care they use four of those threads and they only use the physical cores so what does that mean that means you could get away buying a processor that's that's older or maybe it doesn't have hyper threading so you don't need it because the games don't use it anyway what does that mean means 150 bucks to get yourself an i7 like 2500 K and it does everything you needed to do for gaming what does everything you needed to do for processing - you could even do all of the video encoding you know you could do graphics design with that whatever you want to do the graphics card on the other hand is probably one of the most important components when it comes to computer computer computer gaming uh yeah it is one of the most important components when it comes to computer gaming but you don't need the latest and greatest you simply don't let me give you an example example number two if you're keeping track of the examples earlier this year a friend of mine said hey I want to upgrade my computer and oh hey great cool what's our budget $400 I know oh no really really what's your budget he said no really $400 no wait am I on Punk'd he goes not he goes no seriously $400 now okay um for a graphics card I gave you grab eco no no no that's $400 for sir motherboard memory graphics card and I went oh I don't work miracles man and he said no I serious I want to upgrade my computer no I'm serious I can't do it for that price well he was serious and not only was he serious at the end of that he says oh by the way I need a legitimate copy of Windows oh no a $400 budget to buy Windows 7 motherboard processor memory and graphics card huh and I did it I did it what we did was ended up going with a couple generations old on the graphics cards he wanted to play battlefield 3 and he wanted to play Diablo 3 and he wasn't as interested in the highest settings possible on the game specifically battlefield 3 Diablo is not entirely too demanding but he was interested in having smooth gameplay so what we did or at least what I did is I did my research on graphics cards and the older generation stuff and we decided to go with the 460 GTX and not even the TI model just the 460 and you know what he plays Battlefield at medium and high settings a mixture of both and he has absolutely no lag and it's extremely smooth I was completely amazed that the computer performed as well as it did because I really didn't think I could do it for that price I really didn't and the cool part about PC gaming is as the games evolve you can slowly upgrade your computer and you don't need to upgrade the moment a new game comes out you might not be able to run at the highest settings but I can guarantee you any of the graphics settings that you play with on a PC are going to look better than console whether you're a die-hard console player or not you have to agree the graphics on PC are just miles better than console there's no other way there's just no way around it battlefield 3 for instance the lowest settings on PC with everything just turned all the way down is roughly the same as what you expect to see on console and you know if you don't necessarily believe me on that stay tuned for one of my videos coming up later next week where I actually do a side-by-side comparison of PC and console enough of a shameless plug of my video coming up the point that I got entirely off track on here that I wanted to make is that as the games evolve you can evolve your PC you cannot evolve your Xbox so what's going to happen new games are going to come out they're going to have new engines are going to have new shader models they're going to have all sorts of new utilization for the latest and greatest codecs and you know other PC jargon that they're going to have to turn all of that new stuff off simply because the console cannot handle it so there's a pro right there - a PC now I don't want I didn't want to turn this into a pc vs consoles that we can do that later or we can have a discussion in the comments but let's keep it clean let's keep it friendly it doesn't matter whether you're a console gamer or your PC gamer as long as you're having fun I want to put an end to the myth that you have to be rich or you have to have all kinds of money to build a super expensive computer to play a $60 game it's not true if you want to if you want to test what I'm saying go to new AECOM or go to what some of the other companies out there iBUYPOWER cyber PC there are pre-built computers Micro Center is another new egg style company where you can buy components and parts and you'll see for yourself that you do not have to spend a million dollars or three thousand dollars or even two thousand dollars or hell even a thousand dollars to build a mid-range to high-end gaming PC it's simply not necessary it's just simply a myth it's not necessary it's not true but hey regardless of whether or not you're gaming on a console or you're gaming on a PC as long as you're gaming and you're having fun that's all that matters well that's all we have time for today click the video on the left if you'd like to see a review of the Sager NP 9150 extreme gaming laptop click the video on the right if you'd like to learn all about my PC setup and hit that subscribe button follow me on Twitch for some live streaming action and follow me on Twitter for the latest updates on what I'm doing on YouTube