The Gaming PC
Building a gaming PC with an overall cost below 1000 euros/dollars is difficult, and this is without considering the monitor’s price. But the PS5 Pro doesn’t come with a monitor either. You hook it up to a TV. The same can be the case for the gaming PC.
The prices were at the time of the review. They change ALL the time!
The Gaming PC Specs (US Market - Amazon.com) |
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| Mainboard | ASRock B650M-HDV/M.2 | $100 | ||
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 7600 | $179 | ||
| GPU | GIGABYTE Radeon RX 7700 XT | $399 | ||
| NVMe | Crucial P3 Plus 2TB PCIe Gen4 | $113 | ||
| RAM | Kingston Fury Beast (2 x 16GB) 6000MHz | $76 | ||
| Power Supply | Corsair RM750e (2023) | $100 | ||
| CPU Cooler | Stock AMD | – | ||
| Case | Thermaltake View 270 Plus TG | $60 | ||
| Total Price | $1027 | |||
The PS 5 Pro costs $700 in the US market, while a capable PC using branded parts, including a good power supply, will cost $1027. Thanks to its good power supply, this PC will be able to support the upcoming GPU generations should you want to upgrade at any time in the future. I could also suppress the cost by selecting lower-speed DDR5 RAM, but you should not go lower than 6000 MHz.
The Gaming PC Specs (EU Market - Amazon.de) |
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| Mainboard | MSI PRO B650M-B | 102€ | ||
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 7600 | 193€ | ||
| GPU | PowerColor Radeon RX 7700 XT | 418€ | ||
| NVMe | Crucial P3 Plus 2TB PCIe Gen4 | 118€ | ||
| RAM | Kingston Fury Beast (2 x 16GB) 6000MHz | 65€ | ||
| Power Supply | Corsair RM750e (2023) | 96€ | ||
| CPU Cooler | Stock AMD | – | ||
| Case | Kolink Observatory HF | 63€ | ||
| Total Price (24% VAT Included) | 1055€ | |||
The Gaming PC Specs (EU/Greek Market) |
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| Mainboard | MSI Pro B650M-P | 121€ | ||
| CPU | AMD Ryzen 5 7600 | 184€ | ||
| GPU | PowerColor Radeon RX 7700 XT | 418€ | ||
| NVMe | Crucial P3 Plus 2TB PCIe Gen4 | 118€ | ||
| RAM | Kingston Fury Beast (2 x 16GB) 6000MHz | 61€ | ||
| Power Supply | Corsair RM750e (2023) | 97€ | ||
| CPU Cooler | Stock AMD | – | ||
| Case | Kolink Observatory HF | 60€ | ||
| Total Price (24% VAT Included) | 1059€ | |||
With 24% VAT included, the gaming PC for the EU market is about 100 euros more expensive than the US one. However, the PS5 Pro is also more expensive in the EU market.
Additionally, about this Social Credit System which Microshat has fully established last year, Sony & Nintentdo also already finished halfway:
https://www.techopse.com/microsoft-are-fixated-on-hate-speech-with-lopsided-xbox-live-enforcement-strike-system/
https://www.techopse.com/all-digital-microsoft-xbox-refresh-ftc-document-leak-is-laughably-grim/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-cbrM_etfB0
Orwell’s 1984. Chinese-style Social Credit System.
The publicly given explanations, are the usual bullshat as “for safety”, against “toxicity” bla bla.
The fact that for heavy morally reprehensible actions as cheating, one only gets 1 strike points, but “hatespeech” freaking 4 strikes, alraedy gives away what the actual agendas are:
ESG, CEI, DEI, 1984’s Newspeak, censorship, 24/7 surveillance.
We will silence & censor you, remove you, if you say/do something against our New World Order.
Enjoy the consoles.
Good article.
The article writer mainly focused on the comparison regarding hardware, performance, image quality.
There are obviously dozens of other metrics at play here, which all have far more weight than these metrics. People decide for/against PC/console by those, and thus the buying price itself will be justified (or not).
Here are some other contra against console:
1) It’s a fully closed, walled garden ecosystem. Almost similar to crApple’s ecosystem.
You own nothing here, decide nothing here; you play by the corpos’ (Sony, MS, Nintendo) rules or you are out. Banned.
2) Can’t use the console offline anymore. Mandatory online account registration, or else the console will be a useless piece of shat.
3) Thus since the 2013 console generation all – even disc games – are bound to the consoles hardware ID.
Microsoft i.e. lyingly calls it “Home console” – the user have to create such online account and label his console “Home console”:
As stated it’s a lie. The correct term is DRM.
4) Social Credit System, 1984-style, full censorship, total surveillance and spying on all it’s users, no matter what they do, say, write type with the console or ingame.
Microsoft Xbox already implemtented it last year. Paid and dishonest tech outlets refuse to cover it to this day.
It’s their strike-point system (Social Credit System). You play a game and they monitor whatever you do, say, write etc.
If you did/said something against their TOS, the ongoing ESG, DEI, CEI agendas (which all of them embrace), they will ban you, give you a strike point etc.
Accumulated strike points: They will ban you from all their MS Xbox services. Not only online, but even offline (they save the ban encrypted & unremovable on the device)
In that case the console will be almost useless. You will be able to play offline disc games, that it; not even able to connect online anymore.
5) Games becoming all-digital: Console corpos control all the game digital licence. There is no price competition like seen with PC games and it’s myriad digital front stores and key sellers.
6) Still gave to pay ~ 60 bucks a year to play online. Lol. Shat.
During 6 years that 360 bucks.
There are couple of other big negative points against consoles.
tl;dr the price-performance metric is valid but not even close to being the full truth.
Be smart, play on PC. Throw Mac and consoles in the trash bin where they belong 😉