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? it worked out to about £300 all together.(Don't like the look of the new 15" one with the black keys) and it would play Crysis no probs(512MB) 
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H3RB wrote:my bro had crysis for chirstmas but his pc barely meets the minimum of everything needed to run it.
so i was just wondering what sort of price would he be looking at for a machine to run it at a fairly decent setting?
saw some amd processors 5000+ for fairly cheap and some nvidia 9600gt graphics cards pretty cheap also.
cant remember what mobo i was looking at but it had built in sound card that supports 7.1 also.
would these be any good
any help, links or prices would be great thanks
(hd4870 x2 around £350ish, a decent processor and 4Gb of memory to have it looking as good as the video's i'm afraid.
I'd be splashing out on at least a GTX260/280 and maybe another 1GB of RAM if he's not at the 3GB cap already. What are the specs of his current PC anyway?@ 3.2ghz£25 jobbie. graphics card£4k on an Alienware PC, he says he needs the spec but I know fully well it was to play Crysis on full quality. If it'll take another 2GB then great, if not then at least another 1GB. That should run it pretty well, although you are still going to be p1$$ing against the wind in some respects with such a slow CPU by today's standards.(which are ridiculously fast CPUs, as I've just got one) the last-gen dual-core and quad-core processors should be tumbling in price very shortly.matt_mr2t wrote:Is it really worth spending that kinda bucks for the sake of one game, no matter how good it is?
.. It may not even fit the case/mobo You'll need to upgrade the PSU (£40+) Crysis really isnt that good and even the best PC's struggle as its poorly written. Very true, and a very good point. That motherboard doesn't even support PCIe, so you're going to have to bin the lot and start again. Possibly, possibly not. Agreed.ekona wrote:1.
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im a graphics whore.un1eash wrote:I think your going to need atleast a HD4850/GTX260
then you have added expenses of a big psu and a case big enough for a 2 slot graphics card and before you know it you're over the 1k mark!(ideally) to be able to run dx10 toomikee66 wrote:un1eash wrote:I think your going to need atleast a HD4850/GTX260
Depends how he wants to run it, If he want's all bells and whistles he's looking at the 280 or even 4870x2 and a meaty cpu to go with it, Something like the q9550.
A 4870x2 at £350 is alot of money though 
un1eash wrote:mikee66 wrote:un1eash wrote:I think your going to need atleast a HD4850/GTX260
Depends how he wants to run it, If he want's all bells and whistles he's looking at the 280 or even 4870x2 and a meaty cpu to go with it, Something like the q9550.
Exactly, to run at full you'll need to spend atleast 1k but to run it on low settings a HD4850/GTX260 will do but that kinda defeats the point.
£350 for a gpu is going rate for the top of the range cards, It's a better card thaeb is supposed to be a good card though as it's 2 x 260 gpu's on the same board. but saying that im looking for a new gaming pc to go in my front room to play via my tv so ill be looking to spend a fair bit on mine,..