I'm not a big fan of them, but I have both the 360 and PS3. They're excellent dust collectors.
PC games tend to be my favorite. Team Fortress 2 is my other guilty pleasure.
It really boils down to what you are willing to put up with. I cannot stand running a game on anything other than max settings with 100+ fps. Call me elitist, but it's just what I prefer.
Before the 6990 I had the 5970, which was last year's top-of-the-line ATI video card. In BF3 at High...
i7 Extreme 965 Quad Core 3.2 GHz
12GB DDR3 RAM (6 sticks)
Two 7200rpm HDDs
Radeon 6990 4GB (the bulk of the PSU draw)
blu-ray optical drive
numerous geeky USB attachments (mic, webcam, etc).
It's good to have a 100W buffer for power spikes, which put me over the 1000W PSU...so I just bought the...
I did my homework; I needed at least a 954W PSU to power the new card and everything else already installed. Considering how I love to upgrade components, it seemed to make sense to me to just max out the PSU so I wouldn't have to worry about doing so for the remaining life of the desktop.
I...