Console PC build?

[Nerd Gamer Buddy]

If you were gonna build a PC but make it look like a console what console would it look like? Which console interface would you use?

How would one build a PC that's as close to the consoles as possible? Hypothetically speaking. I'm curious if it could still play games and what sort of games it could play?

I would wanna build a handheld if all possible or a very portable desktop that the screen and controls are just right there even if it's a box you plug into. Personally steams big picture mode is such a great concept. Does windows have a big pic mode? I know you can have steam startup that way.

Ive heard of ppl gutting out a console and making a PC out of the shell. They get rpi and emulate the console but it's a soc. Is there a PC build that is more of a console PC?

[crunchyfrog]

You're a bit wrong there.

When you use a Pi to emulate that's not SOC. System on a Chip is an SINGLE chip that emulates a load of individual console functions. The emulation on a Pi is the same as emulation on a PC - it's entirely software.

I use a Raspberry Pi 4 downstairs with a lot of older console games installed from my collection as it makes it easier for a cripple like me to leave that downstairs than unpack and cart a lod of games and a console downstairs each time.

But what I have done a few times is get a console case and bung other stuff in it. As I've got about 70 working consoles and computers at any time, I keep backup consoles when I can, often just for parts and spares.

One of the most decent ones I've used is the original Xbox case. Partly because well it IS a PC in entirety. But mostly because it's big and the plastic is WAY overengineered and robust as hell. So you can literally bung almost anything in it.

Also, the original Xbox has four controller ports which leaves you with more options too.

I'm not sure wht you mean by your last sentence though. Could you explain that a bit more clearly?

[LeviathanWon]

Maybe a nuclear reactor, I would have control rods with liquid nitrate that could inject into the core.... all 75 of them, but the 75 cores would be seen as 1 core with the software. Then I would have user defied "RAM" from an area on the same bus as the "Storage" to eliminate bottlenecks. Maybe just a standard 10 mega watt power supply.

Use it to get to edge when playing Metroid NES emulation competitively.

[🍋 Lemonfed 🍋]

probably a large oversized dreamcast.

I would avoid making a gaming PC the same size then most consoles are , small case can be hard to keep cool.

[Le fishe au chocolat]

My Windows 7 PC is like a console now. It can't be used at anything but playing some old video games.

[Coal Shoveler]

I know this aint a console, but if i could make my PC look like something, I would make it look like a old PC from the 1990s or 2000s.

[crunchyfrog]

引用自 🍋 Lemonfed 🍋：

probably a large oversized dreamcast.

I would avoid making a gaming PC the same size then most consoles are , small case can be hard to keep cool.

Not so much nowadays.

it isn't usually about size, but airflow. I've come across this a number of times with designing electronics. You'd think just sealing a case, putting in an entrance and an exhaust makes it good.

It doesn't.

You often have to make sure the entrance is proportionate in size to the exhaust and most importantly make sure that airflow and speed is as uniform as you can get it across the components you want cooling.

I've seen people get a relatively simple case put in an entrance on one side of a hot component and then an equal sized one on the other side of it and it still overheat and they can't work out why.

The reason ended up being that eddies in air currents due to the mixed heights and shapes of the components caused a dead spot or two where it needed to move.


It's really bloody complicated ofttimes, but space isn't as important as you think. Because also when you have LESS space you can therefore speeed up the airflow - really basic aerodynamics :)

[Phénomènes Mystiques]

They have digital consoles already...

[crunchyfrog]

引用自 Wynters：

They have digital consoles already...

What does that have to do with anything?

[Skkooomer Lord]

A PC can be a console in the face and fact that there is not much difference other than one or two exclusives and weak hardware we overpay for.

If you think making it look like a console makes it a console.. that is unfortunate.

[crunchyfrog]

引用自 Sleep Time：

A PC can be a console in the face and fact that there is not much difference other than one or two exclusives and weak hardware we overpay for.

If you think making it look like a console makes it a console.. that is unfortunate.

Actually it often isn't weak hardware. It's often a misnomer.

It can be weak in one way, but incredibly forward in another.

For example the Gamecube was underposwered in a number of ways but stunningly good in the way it handled graphics.

The PS3 was underpowered in one way but brliliiant in it's use of cell processing. Too complex in fact as it caused a headache for devs.

So no, that's a misnomer.

[Skkooomer Lord]

引用自 crunchyfrog：

引用自 Sleep Time：

A PC can be a console in the face and fact that there is not much difference other than one or two exclusives and weak hardware we overpay for.

If you think making it look like a console makes it a console.. that is unfortunate.

Actually it often isn't weak hardware. It's often a misnomer.

It can be weak in one way, but incredibly forward in another.

For example the Gamecube was underposwered in a number of ways but stunningly good in the way it handled graphics.

The PS3 was underpowered in one way but brliliiant in it's use of cell processing. Too complex in fact as it caused a headache for devs.

So no, that's a misnomer.

Right but based upon non outdated trends, the consoles are x86 not hard to code for console with non exotoc hardware.

The PS2 had a crazy 2560-bit bus which meant it was effectively free to run any amount of effects on screen but lacked texture memory and it lacked HW T&L and A very compromised final image quality as it used field rendering. It was also fixed-function hardware like the CELL in PS3.

The PS3 was SONY being arrogant and thinking, oh lets just slap in any old hardware.

On paper it looked great, the 360 was the superior design overall as it is still the console of that gen for 95% of all games due to it performing way better with non exlusives.

The PS3 only trumped the 360 in it's end times and it took many years for devs to get anything working well on it.


The OG XBOX is the true powerhouse, Nvidia NV1 custom GPU based on Geforce 3 hardware with dual pipelines instead of a single one that came on the PC version of it, for a time it was ahead of even the PC hardware off the shelf.

[Dyfed Demetae]

ideally the interface would look like this at the beginning:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=oAQVVtMF8Bs

[crunchyfrog]

引用自 Sleep Time：

引用自 crunchyfrog：

Actually it often isn't weak hardware. It's often a misnomer.

It can be weak in one way, but incredibly forward in another.

For example the Gamecube was underposwered in a number of ways but stunningly good in the way it handled graphics.

The PS3 was underpowered in one way but brliliiant in it's use of cell processing. Too complex in fact as it caused a headache for devs.

So no, that's a misnomer.

Right but based upon non outdated trends, the consoles are x86 not hard to code for console with non exotoc hardware.

The PS2 had a crazy 2560-bit bus which meant it was effectively free to run any amount of effects on screen but lacked texture memory and it lacked HW T&L and A very compromised final image quality as it used field rendering. It was also fixed-function hardware like the CELL in PS3.

The PS3 was SONY being arrogant and thinking, oh lets just slap in any old hardware.

On paper it looked great, the 360 was the superior design overall as it is still the console of that gen for 95% of all games due to it performing way better with non exlusives.

The PS3 only trumped the 360 in it's end times and it took many years for devs to get anything working well on it.


The OG XBOX is the true powerhouse, Nvidia NV1 custom GPU based on Geforce 3 hardware with dual pipelines instead of a single one that came on the PC version of it, for a time it was ahead of even the PC hardware off the shelf.

You're missing the point.

You cannot just globally look at a console and say "that's old" because it's not the sum of its parts. SOme bits are better, some are worse.

In other words, because of this, it means your argument about it doesn;t mean anything.

[lsdninja]

引用自 ω猫：

My Windows 7 PC is like a console now. It can't be used at anything but playing some old video games.

At least until Steam stops working on Windows 7 XD

引用自 🍋 Lemonfed 🍋：

probably a large oversized dreamcast.

I would avoid making a gaming PC the same size then most consoles are , small case can be hard to keep cool.

r/sffpc ;)

[Skkooomer Lord]

引用自 crunchyfrog：

引用自 Sleep Time：

Right but based upon non outdated trends, the consoles are x86 not hard to code for console with non exotoc hardware.

The PS2 had a crazy 2560-bit bus which meant it was effectively free to run any amount of effects on screen but lacked texture memory and it lacked HW T&L and A very compromised final image quality as it used field rendering. It was also fixed-function hardware like the CELL in PS3.

The PS3 was SONY being arrogant and thinking, oh lets just slap in any old hardware.

On paper it looked great, the 360 was the superior design overall as it is still the console of that gen for 95% of all games due to it performing way better with non exlusives.

The PS3 only trumped the 360 in it's end times and it took many years for devs to get anything working well on it.


The OG XBOX is the true powerhouse, Nvidia NV1 custom GPU based on Geforce 3 hardware with dual pipelines instead of a single one that came on the PC version of it, for a time it was ahead of even the PC hardware off the shelf.

You're missing the point.

You cannot just globally look at a console and say "that's old" because it's not the sum of its parts. SOme bits are better, some are worse.

In other words, because of this, it means your argument about it doesn;t mean anything.

It is proven by what it produces.