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I’m trying to put together a a $500 PC for a friend that will match or beat the performance in the new Xbox One X. I told him not to buy one, because I could build him a better PC for the same price. This will be connected to a 4K TV and used for gaming only. It’s easy enough to put something together with PC Part Picker, but he wants to be able to play in 4K, and I feel like the video card alone is gonna have to cost that much to get good 4K performance. I was thinking of something like this, but I have no idea if it will work for 4k… Would it be good at least for new games like Destiny 2, on low settings?

https://pcpartpicker.com/list/vsjnYr

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That's a good question and I'm not entirely sure about that. I would think it would have to do with monitor resolution and refresh rates. I don't know how smooth of a picture that the XBOX One could produce on say, a 144Hz monitor, where a PC would excel at that, vs how it would display on a typical flat screen TV's 60 or 75Hz refresh rate. Most consoles are made to be played on flat screen TVs so they would, I assume, be made to be run at the...
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Economy of scale is a real advantage to consoles.

No OS to purchase, buying drives in bulk. Getting a quite powerful APU using GDDR5 as its main memory, it really can't be duplicated. Having the cooling and power supply mass produced. All the PC components that you can buy are retail for a profit. Consoles bank on the fact that they'll eventually make more money from subscriptions, games, services, and merchandise related to the console, so they can also technically afford to sell at a loss.

To get equal performance from a PC puts you easily above $1000, and more like $2000 for competent 4K gaming.
 
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Yeah that's true. That's one area where the XBOX actually succeeds over PC is inexpensive 4K gaming. Considering any GPU that's capable of 4K gaming like a GTX 1080 or a Vega 56 would run you easily $500 - $600 alone depending on the model, and that's not counting all the other hardware you have to buy like CPU, motherboard and RAM. Not everyone has 4K TVs yet but expect that to increase when the consoles and DVRs start taking advantage of high resolution content.
 
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The Xbox One X has an equivalent of an RX 580. A 1080 or Vega 56 would be overkill.
 
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The Xbox Scorpio is rated 6 Tflops ... so you are talking GTX 1070 here

The GTX 1070 alone is $400-$450

so forget about your project.

keep in mind that Xbox controller alone is worth $60 as well.

MS does not profit at all from their consoles . in the past they used to lose profit and sell them below manufacturing costs. in Xbox Scorpio they are not losing but at the same time not taking any profit as well , and when you make millions machines , you can sell them half the price.

Xbox Scorpio would be a $800 Gaming pc , including OS , Controllers , 6 cores Ryzen , and GTX 1070 and 8 GB of ram .
 
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Ah well.. That's what I expected, didn't think it could be done. What about playing on the lowest game settings? Isn't that what consoles are mostly doing? Or isn't it only certain games that can do 4K, so maybe that could be the same here? Mostly do 1080, and some lower end games at 4k?
 
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you mean "old" consoles.

Xbox Scorpio will play like any Gaming PC with a GTX 1070 .. This means "Ultra" settings and not "lowest settings"..

Tell your friend to buy Xbox one X . you gave him a very wrong advice.
 
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That's a good question and I'm not entirely sure about that. I would think it would have to do with monitor resolution and refresh rates. I don't know how smooth of a picture that the XBOX One could produce on say, a 144Hz monitor, where a PC would excel at that, vs how it would display on a typical flat screen TV's 60 or 75Hz refresh rate. Most consoles are made to be played on flat screen TVs so they would, I assume, be made to be run at the lower refresh rates.
 
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