| Steroid said: This guy manages to get Crysis running at an average frame rate of 51 fps. These are on very high settings and a resolution 1680 by 1050 and anti aliasing turned completely off. Amazing. So what did it take to reach this mark? 4 Nvidia 9800 GX2's. And that's just the graphics cards. How much more for the high end quad core you will need? The power source? the mobo? The case? the ram? Vista 64? For the price of all this you could buy yourself an X-box 360, a PS3, a Wii, 4 controllers for each and still have money left over for games. ...Ps. I realise you can do other things with a gaming rig besides gaming. So can a $200 dell.
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51 FPS is actually rather good and I also believe KZ2 runs at only 30. Oh, and 1680x1050 is 1764000 pixels versus KZ2's 720p with 921600 pixels - the resolution alone takes a lot more power. Then there's the fact that you don't actually have to run Crysis on the highest settings for it to look better than pretty much any other game.
The price? Don't make me laugh. You can get a decent computer for about $500 and it can surely run Crysis on high settings (probably still looking better than KZ2). Oh, and you can do something else with it, too, as you said. That's $200 for basic functions and $300 for gaming - not a bad deal, huh? Well, actually I've barely seen a $200 basic computer new, even $300 is pretty cheap. Yeah, let's say $300 for basic functions and $200 for gaming. Then there's the price of the TV, easily hundred of dollard (or euros in my case). If you want a decent size (ie. bigger than a PC display), it'll cost at least some $400 to some $500, and that's pretty low-end. On the other hand, a PC display (22" for example) costs somewhere between $200 and $300, depending on what you want. Also, why does no one remember you usually have some PC stuff (eg. the display) even before getting a new one, and if you're upgrading the main unit, you may have some stuff already and you can sell what you don't need anymore.
I got my PC for 260€ + 80€ (the graphics card, which would have been either significantly cheaper or significantly more powerful if I had got it now instead of two years ago). Then I got a 22" display (has some dead pixels but their colors aren't that bad so they don't disturb me pretty much, and especially when gaming, I don't even spot them) for 100€. That's 440€ and could have been either cheaper or more powerful. It runs Crysis on medium settings with a decent (although only decent, nothing more) framerate.
