Crysis Warhead will retail at 30$ !!!! Bargain of the Year!!!!!

[Garcian Smith]

fazz said:

greenmedic88 said:
There was a $500 budget gamer build on Tom's Hardware (April 2008), but in was by no means a PC that plays Crysis on High settings.

It also didn't include networking capabilities, any input devices (mouse/keyboard), or an OS. The video card was only a 384MB 8800GS, but for about the same price today, you could pick up a 9600GT.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/cpu-graphic-game,1810.html

Realistically speaking, $700 would be a more comfortable budget that would actually provide a complete working PC without cannibalizing components or an OS from an older one.

Knocking a $100 of the build due to "re-using" a copy of an OS is not a legal solution assuming you're planning on running more than one PC on the same license, which many do anyway.

I thought all modern motherboards had LAN already, hmmm...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16827129018

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16811147095

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822210003

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102752

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16817170017

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16823157010

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820161229

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16813128077

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16819116052

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16832116056

All of the above for a total of $500.90. Do I win something?

 

You could maybe squeak by at 30 fps on that system if you turn every Crysis setting to Low. Maybe. The processor isn't even up to the minimum specs for the game.

And - again - no Ethernet, no sound card, low RAM, and all of those cheap parts probably won't last long.