Nedkely

So i have watched the Techquickie video about the USB naming scheme, with linus ranting about its naming and i am pretty on his side on it. 
 I dont like these new names either and i fully support your rant, however you may missing one crucial thing that makes USB forum do all of this wonky stuff, and the reason is number in 4 is considered extremely unlucky and bad number, which brings trouble and even death itself. 
Check out google on chinese numerology about it, number 4 in their language is pronounced as "Si" and death is pronounced as "Shi" and these two are really similar to one another in speech thats why it is considered really unlucky number and causes massive tetraphobia in china. 
USB forum knew it, and also know if they would decide to name their "3.1" as "4.0" the technology they created actually would meet GIANT problems, chinese companies could have even refuse to build it and even government could get involved into this. They are so obsessed with this number so the point where they even avoid it in online games. 
If you know their culture and watch other youtubers from china on that stuff you will understand it, for them "death" is super tabu topic, they are afraid of this word much much more than any nation in the world, its a part of their value system to actually believe in this kind of stuff. 
It would be a shoot in the foot to give number 4 to any thing produced in china. 

Oh my god, why... 
The consoles on release were not lacking in power, get over that myth created by pcmr enthusiasts, the PS3, PS2 and even PS4 upon release were highly scored devices, previous ones were even revolutionary. 
Its just how the devices are after several years after release, ps4 is from 2013, its already 5 years after release, now take a look at GPU's from that time, 500 and 600 series are pure garbage today unable to hold new games in 30 fps. 
CPU's are even worse, not to mention inferior ddr2 memory. 
 
As for upgrades, its not really that simple to implement at all, thats why they hold one version of console for many years, because they could configure and adapt API for them to make game developers job easier. 
Look at the ps4 pro, it took developers a lot of time to configure their games towards it. 
One console and one hardware just makes things easier to create OS, games and other stuff on it. Consumer would just lost interest into the consoles, if they were more expensive, for the most price above 500 bucks is not acceptable and companies has to adapt to it. 
 

It seems that video games are affected by the meltdown workaround at least according to my benchmarks. 
 
i did some amatuer benchmarks, i hope some1 can do some more pro benchmarks and share the results. 
 
but basically i had two problems with the early phoronix results (that seemed to indicate games are safe)
 
1>> he tested on linux, windows has different architecture
i think i read in the modern os book by andrew tannenbaum that win32 api and has several thousand graphics related syscalls
and that windows historically implemented most of the graphics stack kernel side. i wonder if this means video games on windows are gonna issue more syscalls hence invaliding mmu caches more often in games. 
i am not an expert on win32 api so this is just a hunch but thats why we need good benchmarks. 
 
2>> phoronix only tested local single player. not _online_multiplayer_ he probably used the bench mark map in csgo. 
this is a complete non-starter. everyone is saying that IO intensive applications will suffer. online multiplayer is IO. 
obviously the game has to make syscalls to read and write from a socket to talk to the server. if syscalls invalidate MMU caches with this workaround, than this can have severe impact.
 
its such retarded idea to test a online multiplayer game in a unrealistic single player mode and proclaim that games are unaffected.
 
now to my results. 
 
>> i saw a 10% drop in fps in windows 10 after applying the kb4056892 patch in the csgo bench mark map (offline)
>> i also noticed a 30% drop in fps in deathmatch mode on the game's own 64 tick server (128 tick servers could potentially involve more network IO and possibly even more fps drop)
 
whats worse is that i think these drops may be bursty (i.e. right after a syscall and loss of MMU caches the fps drops a lot and then recovers)
if that is true the real amount lag and stuttering will be greater than that indicated by avg fps drop. 
 
here is my test setup. 
i5-3570k (no OC)
GTX 1060 3GB 
resolution 1280x960 (4:3 black bars) 
 
i had 259 avg fps in the fps benchmark map before kb4056892 this morning. immediately after patch and reboot fps went down to:
234 avg fps 
 
for online multiplayer i did this (i know it sucks, thats why i am asking for more pro bench marks, sry i didnt have time to do something better)
i joined a deathmatch server with roughly 10 players in it and went to the same spots in the map (pit in long a, big box at B, and stairs in cat looking towards site).
i looked at the ingame net_graph results. i looked for the lowest number i see thats lasts for about 10 seconds or more. 
 
before the patch the lowest sustained fps i was able to see during the whole map was 170.
after the patch the lowest sustained fps i observed was 120. 
 
that is a truly massive drop in fps for an e-sport title, and if it is un-evenly distributed it makes a very visible difference. 
 
again since pro games are played on 128 tick servers there could even be more IO involved there potentially causing a greater hit. 
 
can some1 who knows more about bench marking than I, do some more extensive benchmarks. 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 
 

Its not about performance, but about reliability. 
You pick console if you want a gaming platform that just works and you dont want to worry about anything about it, just to play games you like. Believe it or not 26-30 fps games are playable and there are games that goes above it, the graphics may be different than the monster pc has, but only to the degree where developer is putting shiny technologies into the game, most of the games looks pretty much the same, so its not about the graphic aspect anymore. 
Its cheaper to buy a console, and the games prices difference is meaningful, since if you are purchasing the game its either a price drop cheapest or the release date where on both systems the prices are the same. 
Sure you have to pay a sub to the console if you want to play online, but you get a lot of stuff from it, like games on double price drop or game boosters, dlc and stuff like that, all the good things at least on ps plus gives the money back to you anyway. Not to mention free games you are receving, also the subscribtion is not that all expensive, you could get it cheap on black friday or buy cheap from ebay, like 70% of the original price. 
I have bought ps plus 1 year for like 37 pounds i believe, its 3 pounds a month for a subscribtion, which gives me at least 1 decent game a month, thats dirt cheap literally. 
 
And why i choose the console over a pc, even if im not short on cash and could buy a decent rig myself? 
Its all about the stuff you are wasting times and take away the comfort of gaming if your demanding are higher on PC, because you expect to play in perfect 60 fps with all the settings is not the cheap and time saving thing at all. 
I was a PC gamer my whole life and i got sick of it already, each game i had to gradually set up graphic settings if not ingame then in nvidia experience and nvidia panel and so on, to squeze some extra juice out from it. With the PC its the weird feeling when you are playing the game you have it on back of your head thinking you could run this game better, you could get more fps, you could do that and that, and instead of just enjoying the game, you spend a lot of time to figuring out how to play your game better than you are playing now. Should you buy better hardware because you dont want to turn graphics down? Maybe something is wrong with you computer and you need too troubleshoot it each day? Maybe your PSU doesnt handle the task, maybe your GPU got some PCIE connections problem, what kind of OC should you use auto or manual? does your temperatures doesnt throtle my rig? Ecetera ecetera. 
You are telling yourself, naaah its not like that i could play my games on superior platform and enjoy it, then you realize there are a hundreds of thousands of people who are asking the same questions (of which linus is one of them), questioning their rigs, their setting and stuff like that to achieve that legendary "smooth awesome gameplay" you are wondering about how to play like it. 
Aaaand you end up spending five times as much as you would play on console, and wasting the time because you had to do research. 
Life is strange, so at least make it as easy as possible, get a console and just play it, simple as that. 

Comparing new PC build with the 4 years old hardware? 
Do pc gamers really have to go so low today? Get some prices and parts from 2014 so we could be fair in those "measurments" 
Also you have count the full price for the PS plus, i could get a 1 year card for like 70% of the original price, you could have get 1 year membership on ps plus just for 40$ one week ago... 
If you are counting everything into the account, count furniture for PC, get cooling on that CPU, get electricity bill gap between using PC and a console, get a money back from the games you sell away on consoles as well. Counting a second PC into the pure gaming system cost is literally retarded, the job you are asking for could be done by smartphones, or used laptops that are like 100-200$ on second hand stores...  Which i dont know who wants to do that, if they simply could use smartphone anyway, used laptops are sorrowful. 
And the second, why are you bringing up a newegg here, where there are multiple promotions and price drops for each hardware piece, count a full release price for the PC parts as well. Your GPU you have given here is used for 142, get a new one for 160 instead. Why dont you bother to get into account that someone actually going to buy a console on a black friday, where the price was like 350$ or even less for ps4, with a game and a controller and a charger. We could go even deeper and get second hand consoles with a bunch of games. 
Where is a controller price on your PC, consoles comes with them in the box. 
Also, how long are you going to game on that pc before you will be forced to upgrade it some day? Consoles could play new games just fine, when a pc with that build will struggle to even play Shadow of mordor, not even to mention final fantasy XV... Are you going to play league of legends your whole life?
Sure you will increase lifespan of your pc, but thats kinda meh since when upgrading it several generations across you will meet a wall, where you have to build the whole pc all again, the only thing that would remain the same will be your HDD, so thats not really all that flowers and sugar you are trying to show off here. 
I have been playing on PC for 16 years already and dropped it for consoles nowadays. To the people trying to build a budget gaming pc all i want to tell is DO NOT DO IT, the nerves and time wasted to optimize that kind of crap is totally jackass. If someone going into PC, he have to get some real money, otherwise he will struggle, and the struggle is real, since developers dont care about PC optimalization, if you cant play their game then suck it. 
 
 
 

Dont buy a budget gaming PC. 
There are 2 things you never do as a gamer: 
1. Preordering stuff 
2. buying dirt cheap pc parts. 
Does that PC is second hand i believe? 
On your place i would save up some more money for the pc or just buy a newer console, because rx 460 is a real shait and you will not pull out the performance out of it, especially with OBS playing in the background. 
Unless you are playing minecraft only, but thats quite a money just to play one game. 
 

A 400 PC 9 times out of 10 sucks at gaming compared to a console.