Getting a Powerhouse Gaming PC for $656 –Full Crysis Capability

[Squilliam]

Kwaad said:

Grampy said:
Sorry folks, I'm going to bed. Baby sitting the two brats has worn me out. It's a shame that serious discussion between mature people is so often ruined by kiddies that don't read the posting and just start mouthing off about things with out the least hint of coutesy, reason or knowledge.

Ok, pissing contest started.

First, your CPU is too slow, and for an extra few bucks you can kick it up quite a bit. Also, if your trying to save money dont go AMD, as they run HOT. And I mean hot. (electricity is quite expensive where I live to say the least. If you never turn your desktop off, the power diffrence from a C2D and a X2 of comparable speeds is over 5$/month if I'm not mistaken)

Amd CPUs X2 CPUs draw 7w at most when idle and they have reasonably efficient chipsets when compared to Nvidia.  As for performance read. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/amd-phenom-x4,1935.html for the 65w Quad core CPU and http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-gpu-upgrade,1928.html which shows that the CPU isn't even half as significant as the GPU when it comes to gaming.

Second. Both me and my wife read your article, and you really didnt post that very well that says that was from a very basic note-book. So really, yeah.

Also, I suppose you are counting windows VISTA on that becuase most all prebuilt computers come with it. Unless you plan on running linux, then your not planning on running Crysis.

 Windows Vista isnt any slower than Xp when running games now.