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As the Xbox One has no LAN feature any more, making a gold account and beefy Internet connection required to run a local Call of Duty tournament, prices to run them have skyrocketed. I've researched the idea of using a PC with Xbox controller instead of an actual Xbox. I'm fine with building them especially if it saves money.

I would like the PC to have enough power to run CoD Ghosts at 1080/60fps and hopefully be able to run the next few CoD games at atleast 720p/60fps before an upgrade would be needed.

After looking up some benchmarks, I found an R9 270X GPU with atleast a FX-6300 CPU would deliver this. I looked up prices for all the parts and found a bundle with this list of parts for $660.


FX-8350 CPU
HD7870 GPU
Asus M5A97 LE R2.0 mobo
530W PSU
8GB 1866 RAM
1tb 7200rpm HDD
Rosewill Galaxy Case

This would deliver the amount of power I want? Is it overkill? Is there a cheaper option to getting this type of performance? Keeping the cost as low as possible yet maintaining a 60fps performance on Ghosts and hopefully future titles is what I need. In the USA btw
 
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What I am saying is the max settings. The one with 66 fps is High only. With r9 280x, 60 avg fps on ultra high quality.
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Thanks for the reply!

I understand I can maintain 60fps by changing the settings. I'm trying to get a performance about on par with the Xbox One, yet keep the cost down as low as possible
 
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Your controller on pc shooters is going to feel very funny. Its not the same as console

I myself dreaded kb ans mouse when i built my first pc. Taken my around a week or 2 to get used to it. Im getting it down and im loving it! Ditch the controller cause there is no aim assist on pc
 
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CoD games have full controller support on PC so aim assist is there. There will be no Kb/m allowed as it is unfair compared to controller. Xbox outputs the game at 720p, but a chip up scales it to 1080p making it seem very close to actually being output at 1080.

I'm just trying to see what the cheapest option is that could output at 1080p/60fps. Video setting do not have to be very high as Xbox has low settings also
 
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Really? I looked at a tomshardware benchmark of Ghosts, and on high settings the 270X was able to perform 66fps.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/call-of-duty-ghosts-pc-performance,3683.html
As the 7870 performs fairly close, I was thinking it could easily do it at lower settings, as I'm only trying to match Xbox.

I've been looking around and found some 270X's priced for as much as the 7870, so I might switch to the 270X. Also thinking of only going for an FX-6300 CPU
 
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I would, but as far as bare drives go on newegg/amazon. They all hover around $55 including the 1tb. I've found a 500GB for $50, which I'll switch to, but can't find much cheaper

 
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Hmm yeah, it doesn't seem to matter much in price. HDD's are so cheap already there's not much to save on in that regard I guess haha.
 
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Thanks anyway, I think I've got the specs that should work.

FX-6300 CPU
R9 270X GPU
Asus M5A97 Mobo
8GB RAM
500GB HDD
Galaxy Case

It totals about $800 with the OS, tax, and shopping, which is still hundreds less then our projected cost to run the Xbox Ones
 
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What I am saying is the max settings. The one with 66 fps is High only. With r9 280x, 60 avg fps on ultra high quality.
 
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Ok, thanks, I'm not needing ultra settings, screen size is 22-24" anyways
 
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