$130 will match or beat any console in terms of graphical fidelity.

[shio]

TheRealMafoo said:

shio said:

My brother has a pc from 2003 (P4 2.8Ghz, ATI Radeon 9600se, 1gb DDR) and he cannot wait to play Starcraft 2 and Sam&Max S2, plus other games I might buy (SPORE, Stalker: Clear Sky, A Vampyre Story) since he doesn't search much for games. Hell, he even tried playing Crysis' demo (which worked on lowest settings, with some slowdown on cutscenes)

Crysis on the lowest settings looks like a PS2 game.

Also, with that video card, he will not be able to play those games. Here is a chart, the slowest card on this list is a lot faster then a 9600se.

http://www23.tomshardware.com/graphics_2007.html

 

Crysis on lowest settings looks better than any PS2/GC/Xbox game, and looks better than 90% of Wii games, including Metroid Prime 3 (the lack of AA is a bitch though on Crysis)

and 9600se can run Crysis. Hell even my old Geforce 6200se Turbocache ran Crysis, and that GPU is worse than 9600se I believe. A Crytek dev himself said that the official minimum requirements aren't the absolute minimum, you can run Crysis with a GPU worse than a Geforce 6800.