xbox 360 vs .........

Wait, let me get this straight...you want to build a gaming PC that's of equal power to an outdated system? I could understand that as a fun project, but for your actual main gaming rig? What would be the point?

UPDATE: Oh and by the way, the HD 7750 destroys an Xbox 360, as does a 6800k APU.

The question is what is your budget?

What kind of games you will be playing and on what resolution

Ah well it's hard to really say. Oftentimes you can equate base performance across two systems, i.e. a PC and a console, but things like drivers make it difficult to pinpoint how it'll work. For example, the legitimate actual equivalent of the Xbox 360 for a PC is the very outdated ATI Radeon X1800 XT. It's what the Xbox 360's GPU is based on, just as how the Xbox One's GPU is based on the AMD Radeon HD 7790. But there are a large number of differences in the way things would perform if you compared cross platform. For example the Xbox 360 in order to cope nowadays, usually has games which are developed below the minimum settings offered by a PC. If you've ever seen Crysis 3 comparisons, you'll know what I mean. There's a lot of things they do, so exact cross platform comparisons are difficult to say they least, especially when you add in things like drivers and optimization and blah blah blah.

But really, let me give you a warning first, because I noticed you said that to you your Xbox 360 still looks beautiful: What looks good on your Xbox 360 will look like crap on your PC (assuming that the frame rates, resolution, and settings are similar). You see a hell of a lot more on your monitor when you're 1 foot away than you do when you're playing on your TV 4 feet away. Because of this, you notice things like poor settings, resolution, and above all else, frame rate, a lot more. Certain games also don't have any form of motion blur. I'm looking at you Borderlands 2 >.>

Motion blur, as many have come to learn, is the whole reason why people can play modern games at 30 fps. Sure, Borderlands 2 may look good at 30 fps on your Xbox 360, but on PC it's an eyesore to see that 30 fps mark (60 fps still looks amazing though). Things look incredibly choppy. And if you're anything like me, it's easy to become very picky about your frame rates to the point of it being nearly unplayable. Of course, games like that aren't too frequent, and Borderlands 2 only ever got down to 30 fps for me because it's so CPU bound that it's causing distress, so overall you don't have to worry about that too much if you're playing with a [strike]good GPU[/strike] moderately good setup. But anything you buy nowadays, even if it's something like an A8-6800k APU, will still destroy an Xbox 360, though not as much as an HD 7850.

I recommend you go for the HD 7850, or the HD 7850 Boost if you can. If you can give an actual budget, i.e. $400 - $600, we can suggest you parts.

i spent $800 eight months ago on my desktop DOUBLES the performance of the xbox one which isnt even released yet...

I wouldn't go for the FX-4350. The Battlefield 4 Beta showed just how quickly that 4 core AMD CPUs are being done away with, and the only advantage the 4350 has over the cheaper 4300 is the clock speed. Architecture is the exact same as is everything else except the clock speed, but considering that the FX series is built to overclock, that's just wasting money. I'd go no less than the $120 FX-6300, though optimally I'd say the FX-8320 is the best bang for your buck at $150. If it's a budget you're on though, the FX-6300 is perfect.

Like I said, list a budget and we'll give you the parts you need.

xbox one hardware is optimized with the xbox one software thats why games through out all consoles looks great when comparing hardware specs is out of the question and like a pc which runs many applications and resources hogs up memory and cpu process. I would imagine that games on the next generation hardware would look amazing.

He said he will be playing minecraft and simcity not battlefield 4 by the way cant wait for that game to be released lol