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Who prefers the PC over xbox/360 and PS2/3?

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studepaber;763888; said:
I like both, but my PC graphics card is so outdated it isn't even funny, so the edge goes to 360 games.
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I'm going backwards on my graphics cards right now. I had to throw away a GeForce 5200 this week that had the bottoms of the capacitors blown out, which itself was a replacement for a Ti4200 which I blew the caps out of about three or four years ago.

Back to limping by on my GeForce 2 MX-400 ...

If I blow that one, I'll have to dig out my SLI-paired Monster 3D-IIs.
 
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Dryden;763904; said:
I'm going backwards on my graphics cards right now. I had to throw away a GeForce 5200 this week that had the bottoms of the capacitors blown out, which itself was a replacement for a Ti4200 which I blew the caps out of about three or four years ago.

Back to limping by on my GeForce 2 MX-400 ...

If I blow that one, I'll have to dig out my SLI-paired Monster 3D-IIs.
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That's not "going backwards". That's falling off a cliff
 
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What in the blue hell are you doing to your video cards to blow out the capacitors?! The only thing I can think of is some serious overclocking. I leave most of my hardware set the way it came from the factory, I play Oblivion, WoW, and plenty of other PC games...the only hardware I've ever blown was a mouse (The left button was toast from too many FPS).

As far as which I prefer, my PC or my consoles, I like both. Its like apples to oranges, the similarities are few and far between. Here are the types of games I tend to play on each:
PC: MMOs and FPS
PS2 and 3: Sports and RPGs mostly, Action/Adventure and Racing occasionally
GC and Wii: The usual Nintendo titles like Zelda, Smash Bros, Mario Kart (Mostly use my Nintendo consoles for multiplayer games)
Older consoles: Nostalgia

For the most part, I play games on a system that its best suited for. PCs work best for MMOs and shooters, at least for me personally. Most of what I buy for Sony are Sports and RPGs. Although I could play the Sports games on a Nintendo or PC, the games look better on the Sony compared to its Nintendo counterpart, and I don't need to buy a controller for the PC to make it easier to play on. As far as the Nintendo consoles, I buy the usual franchise titles Nintendo releases, and most of the stuff I want to play aside from that I can also buy for PS2/PS3.
 
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ulukinatme;764182; said:
What in the blue hell are you doing to your video cards to blow out the capacitors?!
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Nothing. This has been a known and documented issue since probably 2001/2002, which was when I first read of it.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Capacitor_plague

http://www.badcaps.net/

Heck, just Google "Bad Capacitors" and dive into the nearly 1 million pages dedicated to this problem.

Both of my nVidia boards were PNY make, and both eventually blew the bottom of the can 1/8" up off the circuit board. I lost an ASUS P4B motherboard that was manufactured in that timeframe too (those capacitors were leaking out of the top of the can). As far as my losses go, I've been quite lucky. Best Buy took my original Ti4200 back and gave me a straight up exchange, and ASUS at least took the mobo back despite it being out of its proper warranty by at least two years, acknowledged it was defective, and replaced it for free. I think I'm stuck with the GeForce 5200 that went out this week though, Best Buy doesn't carry that model any longer and I've since lost the box in our last move to our new home.

I don't know how many CD-ROM/CD-RW/DVD drives I've been through in the last six or seven years, but when those go, it's usually the caps and not the laser or motor; problem is nobody takes them apart to see. Power supplies? I've probably replaced two of those since the turn of the century.

I have a tendency to collect this stuff, though, so I think my sample size has influenced my likelyhood of getting defective product.
 
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The way I see it, a PS2 or an Xbox or Nintendo, or whatever, is just a computer that only plays games. So, with that in mind, I would think that, since they concentrate solely on video games, that they should make better, kick-asser games than PC's should. However, all of the kick-ass strategy games are for the PC. I don't know if Xbox360 or PS3 can make the good strategy games, but PS2 certainly doesn't. I'm talking about Age of Empires or Warcraft or that type of thing. The closest thing to a good strategy game for PS2 that I've found is recruiting between seasons in NCAA football.
 
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The way I see it, a PS2 or an Xbox or Nintendo, or whatever, is just a computer that only plays games. So, with that in mind, I would think that, since they concentrate solely on video games, that they should make better, kick-asser games than PC's should. However, all of the kick-ass strategy games are for the PC. I don't know if Xbox360 or PS3 can make the good strategy games, but PS2 certainly doesn't. I'm talking about Age of Empires or Warcraft or that type of thing. The closest thing to a good strategy game for PS2 that I've found is recruiting between seasons in NCAA football.
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That is also because of the superior control with a keyboard/mouse on RTS games. Playing LOTR on the 360 was like stabbing myself in the eye with a spoon.
 
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