1 00:00:00,080 --> 00:00:05,359 So, in November of 2013, we released this video. It did a great job of 2 00:00:04,000 --> 00:00:11,599 covering the differences in image quality between consoles and PCs at the 3 00:00:08,400 --> 00:00:13,920 time, but it's 2015 and the landscape 4 00:00:11,599 --> 00:00:18,000 has changed a fair bit. Traditionally, consoles will increase in image quality 5 00:00:15,920 --> 00:00:22,320 over time as developers get more comfortable with the platform by 6 00:00:19,840 --> 00:00:27,519 learning what it can and actually cannot do. But at the same time, the cost of PC 7 00:00:24,960 --> 00:00:32,160 parts relative to their performance is always going down. So, back then, the 8 00:00:29,840 --> 00:00:37,520 PS4 looked like a really compelling gaming box with the Xbox One being 9 00:00:34,559 --> 00:00:42,480 larger, slower, and pointing a camera at you at all times. But some of those 10 00:00:40,160 --> 00:00:46,800 things have changed. So, has the answer changed? Stay tuned to find out. And 11 00:00:44,800 --> 00:00:54,090 stay subscribe to Linus Tech Tips if you're a fan of 5gallon buckets. 12 00:00:57,600 --> 00:01:03,359 Corsair's H80i GT and H100i GTX 13 00:01:01,600 --> 00:01:07,520 all-in-one liquid coolers improve both the appearance and cooling of your PC. 14 00:01:05,600 --> 00:01:11,119 Click now to learn more. This time around, there will be five contenders. 15 00:01:09,040 --> 00:01:15,680 The still bulky but cheaper and no longer camera burdened to Xbox One. The 16 00:01:13,520 --> 00:01:20,400 PlayStation 4, which evidently Sony thought was just fine the way it was. 17 00:01:18,159 --> 00:01:26,560 Our new and improved entry-level PC configured by STR MAPE and priced at 18 00:01:22,960 --> 00:01:29,840 around 400 USD. and our new and improved 19 00:01:26,560 --> 00:01:31,920 high-end machine priced at a lot, like 20 00:01:29,840 --> 00:01:36,000 1,500 or something like that. And last but not least is the Thrift Machine 21 00:01:33,439 --> 00:01:39,920 4000, which is the combination of the best parts of our used machines from the 22 00:01:38,000 --> 00:01:44,799 Scrapyard Warrior series, which you should definitely watch if you haven't 23 00:01:41,759 --> 00:01:47,040 already. Seriously, middleclick this 24 00:01:44,799 --> 00:01:51,600 now, pause this video so you don't have two audio tracks running. Go watch that 25 00:01:49,360 --> 00:01:55,200 one and then come back to this one. I'll wait. In the forum thread linked below 26 00:01:53,840 --> 00:01:59,439 this video, you'll be able to see download links for all the raw footage 27 00:01:57,600 --> 00:02:03,920 taken from these machines. So, you can actually see what it actually looked 28 00:02:01,759 --> 00:02:09,280 like instead of seeing it after YouTube has kind of messed with it. Starting 29 00:02:06,479 --> 00:02:13,200 with the low-end PC, its pros are largely based around it being cheap. Uh 30 00:02:11,680 --> 00:02:19,680 whether or not you get Windows or not, you're probably going to be somewhere around $400 $500. And then it's going to 31 00:02:17,599 --> 00:02:22,480 be more functional at that cost than a console. You'll be able to game, of 32 00:02:21,360 --> 00:02:27,840 course, but you'll also be able to stream in both directions. Uh, video 33 00:02:25,200 --> 00:02:32,160 editing, photo editing, web browsing, word editing, basic office 34 00:02:30,080 --> 00:02:36,000 documentation, all that kind of stuff. Huge amounts of functionality. And if 35 00:02:34,400 --> 00:02:39,440 you want more from it, you can upgrade it in the future. Of course, this is to 36 00:02:38,080 --> 00:02:43,200 additional cost, but if you need more RAM, if you need a better graphics card, 37 00:02:41,120 --> 00:02:46,959 if you want more storage for your 350 freaking Steam games, you can 38 00:02:44,800 --> 00:02:51,360 accommodate that. You can also pick the settings for all of those games, which 39 00:02:49,360 --> 00:02:54,640 is actually really nice. With a console, you're locked into whatever they think 40 00:02:53,280 --> 00:03:01,440 is good. You're not going to be able to change your resolution or your frame rate or your quality settings in the 41 00:02:59,200 --> 00:03:05,280 mass majority of cases. Whereas on a computer, you'd be able to change 42 00:03:03,040 --> 00:03:08,879 everything in a mass majority of cases, which is actually quite fantastic. And 43 00:03:07,599 --> 00:03:14,319 you can decide if you want more performance in terms of FPS or if you 44 00:03:11,200 --> 00:03:17,360 want more uh nice looking images in 45 00:03:14,319 --> 00:03:19,840 terms of resolution or quality settings. 46 00:03:17,360 --> 00:03:25,360 Also, accessories are potentially a lot cheaper, but this is where we bridge the 47 00:03:22,080 --> 00:03:28,239 gap to cons because accessories for a PC 48 00:03:25,360 --> 00:03:33,440 can also be quite a bit more expensive. Although for the low-end PC, this is 49 00:03:30,000 --> 00:03:36,720 still mostly a pro. It's now moving to 50 00:03:33,440 --> 00:03:38,720 cons. It's a PC, but it's not that great 51 00:03:36,720 --> 00:03:44,159 of a PC. You're probably not going to want to do a ton of like surround gaming 52 00:03:41,920 --> 00:03:49,599 or anything like that on here, but that's not a huge deal. There are issues 53 00:03:46,879 --> 00:03:54,239 with things like longevity. It's a low-end PC, and there's some 54 00:03:51,920 --> 00:03:59,360 low-end components in here, like super sketchy power supplies and other things 55 00:03:56,560 --> 00:04:04,159 that may kind of fail down the road. There's also no console exclusives. And 56 00:04:01,519 --> 00:04:09,760 while this is a pro that you have PC exclusives as well, um I don't know, 57 00:04:08,159 --> 00:04:13,680 it's it's also a con that you don't get to play the console ones. Of course, 58 00:04:11,360 --> 00:04:19,680 with the used PC, the pros are that it's insanely cheap. With the cheap PC, we 59 00:04:16,479 --> 00:04:21,440 saw a very low $400 to $500 price point. 60 00:04:19,680 --> 00:04:27,680 With used PC, you're going to be able to easily get a computer for 400 or less at 61 00:04:25,199 --> 00:04:32,080 a very high level of performance. very comparable with the low-end PC or even 62 00:04:30,000 --> 00:04:37,040 better in some cases. You can get a lot of these parts if you're thrifty enough 63 00:04:34,240 --> 00:04:41,360 and willing to wait possibly for free even uh old recycled computers, your 64 00:04:39,280 --> 00:04:44,880 your mom's old computer or your friend's old computer or just anyone who's able 65 00:04:43,199 --> 00:04:49,440 to drop down some parts. You can take anything from it that's valuable. Maybe 66 00:04:46,720 --> 00:04:53,040 some extra RAM or or just the power supply or a hard drive or something. If 67 00:04:50,960 --> 00:04:56,880 you zombie apart some computers, you can save a lot of money there. Um, and you 68 00:04:55,680 --> 00:05:01,120 might even be able to find a free operating system in that process if you 69 00:04:59,040 --> 00:05:05,600 find a hard drive that just happens to come with one, which is kind of awesome 70 00:05:03,680 --> 00:05:09,600 because then there's additional savings there as well. And if some people are 71 00:05:08,240 --> 00:05:13,280 going to point out that the parts might fail, well, if your hard drive fails, 72 00:05:11,759 --> 00:05:16,880 stuff like SteamCloud is going to be able to preserve your save games, which 73 00:05:15,120 --> 00:05:23,360 is actually quite fantastic. A lot of these uh kind of like Origin and Steam 74 00:05:20,560 --> 00:05:26,320 and Play and stuff will have cloud save options. So, you don't even really have 75 00:05:24,960 --> 00:05:30,000 to worry about that failing. And if you're kind of just zombifying a few 76 00:05:28,160 --> 00:05:33,360 computers, you might have a few extra hard drives laying around. So, your get 77 00:05:31,840 --> 00:05:37,600 up and go time might not even be that long. That being said, it's used 78 00:05:35,680 --> 00:05:40,400 hardware and things might fail. I know I just said that might be okay cuz you 79 00:05:38,800 --> 00:05:44,720 might be able to swap things in and out, but there's the very high chance that 80 00:05:42,479 --> 00:05:50,800 you won't have a spare part for whatever just failed. And if it's a hard drive, I 81 00:05:48,880 --> 00:05:54,240 did just say that you might have cloud save data, but you probably won't have a 82 00:05:52,639 --> 00:05:57,360 backup of other things. You might be able to have multiple hard drives, but 83 00:05:55,759 --> 00:06:01,120 it's very likely when you lose a hard drive is if it's not in a proper RAID or 84 00:05:59,680 --> 00:06:06,560 if you don't have a proper scheduled backup or both, you're very likely going 85 00:06:03,759 --> 00:06:11,039 to be losing data, which is not cool. The OS might even be pirated. You don't 86 00:06:09,440 --> 00:06:15,840 necessarily know unless you're getting it from a very repeatable source, and 87 00:06:12,720 --> 00:06:18,479 that's another sketchy thing. Stuff like 88 00:06:15,840 --> 00:06:23,039 the power supply in the low-end PC was a little sketchy, but you might have all 89 00:06:20,479 --> 00:06:29,120 sketchy parts in your used PC. It's just a risk. The pros of high-end PCs is that 90 00:06:26,400 --> 00:06:33,520 they're crazy freaking blazing fast. You'll be able to get great image 91 00:06:31,039 --> 00:06:38,479 quality in any game that you play. Um, great anti-aliasing detailing levels, 92 00:06:36,080 --> 00:06:43,039 great uh high-end video editing or high-end content creation of any kind 93 00:06:40,400 --> 00:06:48,160 realistically. uh surround gaming with three monitors for like sick setups with 94 00:06:45,759 --> 00:06:54,240 racing or flying games or even high demand VR where you might need uh 90 FPS 95 00:06:51,360 --> 00:06:58,080 to go along with your 90 Hz headset and in very high quality as well so it's 96 00:06:56,160 --> 00:07:01,919 very immersive. That's really hard to do and you might be able to do that with a 97 00:06:59,520 --> 00:07:06,319 high-end PC. You can also do stuff like streaming to things like NVIDIA Shields 98 00:07:04,160 --> 00:07:10,080 or possibly Steam Link down the line. Although you might or might not need a 99 00:07:08,000 --> 00:07:15,919 high-end PC for that. We'll have to see. The cons of this at the same time though 100 00:07:12,240 --> 00:07:19,680 is that while its performance is badass, 101 00:07:15,919 --> 00:07:22,560 its cost is really not great. It's going 102 00:07:19,680 --> 00:07:27,039 to be super crazy expensive. And while you have the nice form factor of the 103 00:07:24,720 --> 00:07:30,960 PlayStation 4 and the not quite as nice form factor of the Xbox One, they're 104 00:07:28,800 --> 00:07:36,800 both relatively small. And a very high-end PC, well, not necessarily, it's 105 00:07:34,319 --> 00:07:39,520 probably going to be very large. A lot of people that are building high-end PCs 106 00:07:38,080 --> 00:07:44,720 are building them in full towers or midtowers which are relatively really 107 00:07:42,160 --> 00:07:49,520 big compared to a PlayStation 4. Next up is Xbox One or Xbone for the people like 108 00:07:47,360 --> 00:07:53,599 saying it that way. It has a better camera solution than the other console. 109 00:07:51,440 --> 00:07:56,960 It's it's connect is actually fairly powerful although some people might 110 00:07:55,680 --> 00:08:01,759 found it annoying, but we'll talk about that later. Voice control is cool. Voice 111 00:07:59,680 --> 00:08:06,960 control is a modern way of interacting with devices and the Xbox One has it for 112 00:08:04,240 --> 00:08:11,520 a ton of different reasons. and cloud servers for a better gaming experience. 113 00:08:09,440 --> 00:08:16,400 Uh, is that a thing yet? Either way, it's a it's a benefit for now. It's also 114 00:08:14,160 --> 00:08:20,720 a flexible entertainment device. You can watch TV and sports and stuff through 115 00:08:19,039 --> 00:08:27,919 it. Maybe a little bit weird, maybe not something you're looking for, but it is a benefit of the device. Cons, however, 116 00:08:25,520 --> 00:08:31,280 are where the hell is the performance increase from the Microsoft cloud 117 00:08:29,440 --> 00:08:35,279 servers? I just brought this up as a pro, but we don't really see it as much 118 00:08:33,519 --> 00:08:40,159 as it was kind of toted around when they were talking about it. Also, voice 119 00:08:37,760 --> 00:08:43,919 control. Another thing I just brought up as a pro doesn't really work that well. 120 00:08:42,719 --> 00:08:48,800 The amount of times that people have been trolled by someone shouting Xbox 121 00:08:45,920 --> 00:08:52,880 off is insane. I wonder how many Xboxes I just turned off. Uh, it just it's a 122 00:08:51,360 --> 00:08:57,279 little janky right now. Voice control isn't really where it needs to be in in 123 00:08:55,600 --> 00:09:02,480 general, especially not for a solution like this. Crazy weird resolutions are 124 00:08:59,920 --> 00:09:06,880 not great. Something like 792p for Watchd Dogs is just really weird and is 125 00:09:04,800 --> 00:09:12,080 going to make it look not super awesome in the end. And in terms of performance, 126 00:09:09,760 --> 00:09:17,200 it's just worse than a PS4. If you're comparing directly console to console, 127 00:09:13,920 --> 00:09:19,600 it's not as powerful as a PS4. And with 128 00:09:17,200 --> 00:09:24,880 all consoles, all modern consoles other than I guess Wii U, it requires a 129 00:09:22,160 --> 00:09:29,600 monthly payment for online freaking access. the PlayStation 4. More games 130 00:09:27,360 --> 00:09:34,080 are going to run at 1080p than the Xbox One. It doesn't have a giant power brick 131 00:09:32,080 --> 00:09:37,839 like the Xbox One does, which is actually kind of nice. Just a direct 132 00:09:35,440 --> 00:09:43,440 cable from the wall. It also has very low standby power. The while running 133 00:09:41,279 --> 00:09:46,880 performance power might not be super great, but your console is going to be 134 00:09:44,720 --> 00:09:50,080 sitting in standby more often than not while you're at work or school or 135 00:09:48,160 --> 00:09:53,920 whatever. So, it's standby power is actually quite important. It also 136 00:09:52,160 --> 00:09:58,880 performs better in general. I know I brought up the 1080p thing, but general 137 00:09:55,839 --> 00:10:02,080 performance is better than an Xbox One, 138 00:09:58,880 --> 00:10:04,560 and this is fairly opinionated, but it's 139 00:10:02,080 --> 00:10:08,080 very attractive housing. It looks really good. The Xbox One is kind of clunky, 140 00:10:06,640 --> 00:10:12,880 and yeah, it might look like certain home theater things, but the PlayStation 141 00:10:10,080 --> 00:10:15,920 4 looks modern. The angles look really sharp. It just looks really good 142 00:10:14,399 --> 00:10:20,720 overall. I'm not going to get into controller comparisons here because 143 00:10:18,160 --> 00:10:24,800 that's extremely preference. Um, but anyways, moving on to cons. The 144 00:10:22,800 --> 00:10:30,240 PlayStation 4 also lacks additional functionality again compared to the Xbox 145 00:10:27,440 --> 00:10:34,320 One. It isn't able to do as many kind of random small things that the Xbox One 146 00:10:32,160 --> 00:10:37,920 can do. It doesn't have the nice kind of TV mode if that's something you're 147 00:10:35,839 --> 00:10:41,040 looking for. The camera isn't as highly functioning. It doesn't have the same 148 00:10:39,200 --> 00:10:45,440 voice control kind of stuff. It's missing a lot of those things. And 149 00:10:43,279 --> 00:10:52,079 you're also required, just like the Xbox One, to pay monthly for online access. 150 00:10:49,440 --> 00:10:56,000 Very annoying. Honestly, the visual fidelity on all platforms was quite 151 00:10:54,560 --> 00:11:00,240 good, and it was actually a little hard to tell between a high-end PC and an 152 00:10:58,240 --> 00:11:03,839 Xbox One. You could tell, but you had to look pretty closely. What do you guys 153 00:11:02,240 --> 00:11:07,600 think? Be sure to check out that footage in the video description down below on 154 00:11:05,519 --> 00:11:11,920 the forum, where you can download the more high bit rate files instead of the 155 00:11:10,079 --> 00:11:15,600 YouTube compression crap, which is probably what you saw throughout this 156 00:11:13,279 --> 00:11:20,480 video. developers seem to be kind of harnessing these new consoles much 157 00:11:17,360 --> 00:11:22,800 better, but again, it's a lot easier to 158 00:11:20,480 --> 00:11:27,360 build a very low-end, very affordable machine which can beat out the consoles 159 00:11:24,880 --> 00:11:32,000 now, which is kind of nice for PC guys as well. Now, another thing, Shadow of 160 00:11:29,519 --> 00:11:37,120 Mordor and Far Cry 4 may not have been the best games to like really push the 161 00:11:34,480 --> 00:11:40,000 high-end PC. So, we'll kind of have to see if there's other games out there. 162 00:11:38,480 --> 00:11:44,800 And what games would you guys actually suggest? again, let me know down in the 163 00:11:42,160 --> 00:11:49,120 in the comments below or preferably over on the forum. Speaking of good things, 164 00:11:46,959 --> 00:11:53,200 XSplit. XSplit powers countless live streams and recordings throughout the 165 00:11:51,120 --> 00:11:57,360 world. With the recent release of Xplit V2, you can experience powerful new 166 00:11:55,360 --> 00:12:01,040 production tools that have been built to meet today's standards of content 167 00:11:59,360 --> 00:12:05,200 creators. 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