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No brainer.. upgrade your PC...

The small headaches with PC's drivers, differing hardware, etc, is small
compared to the expenses of buying console games, subscription costs for the
Live service, and you still only have a console good for only gaming...
instead take the money and put like $200 a year into it, each time replacing
the slowest bottleneck in your system... eventually you will have to
overhaul to a completely new system but it is likely a better investment
than just a console...

IMHO anyways..

Ax.


"AiRNESS" <air...@freemail.gr> wrote in message
news:Xns93F5223559914airnessfreemailgr@194.177.210.210...
> "Steven C \(Doktersteve\)" <real_dok...@hotmail.com> wrote in
> news:RE98b.115836$kW.109566@edtnps84:
>
> > I am on a budget for gaming, and i would like to either upgrade my
> > current system, or get a console to play games on the the next year or
> > two.
> >
> > My current pc is:
> > Athlon xp1800+ (1.5ghz)
> > Geforce 3ti 200 (overclocked to ti500 speeds)
> > 512 megs pc2100 ram
> >
> > I am looking at getting a saphire radeon 9600pro card. This card runs
> > at about $239.00 canadian, i can get an xbox refurbished by microsoft
> > for the exact same price, or i can go with the adrenaline pack and get
> > the xbox, halo, and amped for about $279 canadian without taxes.
> > I wouldnt really play amped, but i would play halo.
> >
> > of course, halo will be out on pc this year.
> >
> > What is more worth my money? Really, i get alot of games from friends
> > for the pc. i buy as much as i cant, but cant afford every big
> > release, so i buy the ones i like, and sort of borrow the ones i dont
> > (please, no flames because of this, i am still a "poor" student type
> > person).
> >
> > If i go xbox, i have to consisder software. There is less of it, but
> > its easy to pop a game in and just play.
> >
> > If i get the xbox, how outdated will it be by the time the next
> > console systems come out (in 2006 it seems now)?
> >
> > If i get the radeon 9600, will i be able to even PLAY games like hl2
> > and doom3 properly? or will those games be better out on the xbox for
> > a guy like me.
> >
> > If i stay with pc, i will have to keep upgrading the cpu, hdd, and
> > ram. that gets pricey.
> >
> > Please, give me some advice.
> > I play alot of FPS games, but that is because i dont like sports games
> > on the pc, i do play them occasionally on my gamecube, because i have
> > a proper controller on that console. I would play mroe sports games if
> > i had an xbox i imagine, i am thinking of the sega sports titles here.
> >
> > Are there that many xbox exclusive games out there? what about in the
> > future?
> >
> > oh boy, so many questions.
> > Thanks.
> > Steven.
> >
> >
>
> I think the issue is more simple than you think here...Just think for
> what purpose use your pc at first.Then realize that the pc upgrades and
> the consoles not...The new Radeon vcard sure is expensive (I will not
> definetily bought one except if I had business with graphics) but think
> that when Microsoft or Sony or Nintendo or whatever...realize that they
> must rise their technology you will have to buy a new console.Offcourse
> this is dilema that console gamers have, I don't know if you are a
> console gamer.I was, back in the SNes days and let me tell you I had a
> great time then and now with the Znes emulator.But no way, I will not
> enter the console thing again.But you will probably think that 'yes he's
> an adventure gamer (like the most people here) so the pc fits him.',
> that's what the history tells at least.
> Well, the choise is yours...
>
>
> Akis and his AiRNESS
>
> St.George Patron of the light who hunts the shadow of the night
> upon my blood I call thee now, purify me, for I avow
> to set my feet upon thy road, thy sword I take up for mine own...