EA's Crysis-ready PC Costs $699, Specs Unveiled; Aims to 'Make PC Gaming Convenient'

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  I bought a nearly identical and already assembled PC (with the slightly better intel cpu e8400, without o... : razorblade79
  • oh and btw of course I checked with 3dmark06 >11700, Crysis runs fine, too, on 1680 / high : razorblade79
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    I am thinking about upgrading soon, can you give me the details? Sounds like a good deal. : Lukiopimp
    • Got it from www.mess-data.de (look at the bottom left PDF "Aktuelle Angebote" for similar systems) these ... : razorblade79
  • bloody hell, going to check this out when I get home : jbury

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• That is a fantastic comparison, good work! : Sapiens
• A 360 without a HDD : zooolander
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  You get exactly what you pay for at $199; A "toy." : JackAxe
  • What in the hell are you talking about? : ColoradoCNC
  • Right, because I had intended on managing a nuclear reactor with my consoles. : Fred Garvin
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  How can you compare that? Consoles aren't as powerful as a pc, plus you can do much more with it, once yo... : Johnnsen
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    because they are both for playing fucking games? : Luminair
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      yeah, you go play your games kiddo, other people might want to work on a pc too. : Johnnsen
      • A lot of people already have PCs which will do the vast majority of PC tasks besides gaming. Rather th... : rasputinreborn
  • That is correct. : JonnyBGoode
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  the 360 might be able to run crysis at 640x480 lul : Shai-Tan
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    And this machine at 800*600 at 30 frames per second, average, with probably bad spikes far below that. : code-e255
    • Are you kidding me, even a 9600GT would do that. : guigr
    • I wrote the report this story cites after playing an entire level on one of these machines, with no signi... : Chris Remo
• Yeah, not that impressive for the broke couch potatoes. : BorenKets123
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  While this is technically true, what is the relevance? You can't play Crysis Warhead on a console, and yo... : Chris Remo
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    it's a really simple concept and the fact that you are struggling so hard with it tells me that you are s... : Luminair
    • I understand the concept; I don't understand the relevance. : Chris Remo
• behind his trollish post, i see his point though. when little tim wants to play CoD4 or some other popu... : X-GOUKI
• 360 not impressive when it can't do spreadsheets! ^^ : Lukiopimp

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  i remmber ea saying piracy is hardware makers dirty secret, now ea want sum of that money too : alalkoolj
  • That may be true. : JonnyBGoode

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  If they're smart, they'll bundle Crysis with the PC. Otherwise, the profit they garner on this thing is g... : JimRune
  • Nope, Crysis is not included. : Chris Faylor
  • PC OEMs operate with razor thin profit margins as is. : rasputinreborn
• That would force Crytek to release Crysis 2 with kill bot. If the game is pirated, a hammer comes out of... : JonnyBGoode

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  Not quite. The Xbox 360 launched at USD $399 for the high-end model. The high-end PS3 launched at $599 ... : RomSteady
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    (don't forget to add $100 to the 360 for the wireless network adapter.) : baron calamity
    • The PC this is being compared to does not appear to have wireless by default so I can't include that as p... : RomSteady
    • Oh please. : ThomW
    • Fail. : SlingBlaze
    • not to mention you can just plug your 360 into any router or laptop to bridge the connection : Demius
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      (don't forget to add the $15,000 TV and Sound system the 360 requires) : walker270
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        ...and a house to play in : SlingBlaze
        • Don't forget that you need hands too. : yoonix
    • :sigh: : ColoradoCNC
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      hahaha I love how everyone hates this point, because it is so good. A console dedicated to Online Connec... : dilutedq
      • We dislike the point because it's a non-issue. You can connect perfectly well using ethernet, which is ho... : ColoradoCNC
      • Compared to this PC and the point of the OP how does that even apply? : Fred Garvin
      • dilutedq, please don't be you. Wireless connectivity is hardly needed for baseline internet connectivity... : rasputinreborn
      • I've been using Live for years, and I don't have a wireless adapter. My PC doesn't have a wireless adapte... : Chris Remo
      • Actually I dislike this point because I also use my 360 to stream movies from my Macbook Pro with Rivet. ... : crimrOw
• Yeah, it's a start. Hopefully PC manufacturers who sell to brick and mortar will get on board and offer ... : oscrogo
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  wander how many 360s are bought by people whos old ones broke, quite a lot i bet : alalkoolj
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    Except for the fact that Microsoft's warranty covered the ones who broke. So, not too many I imagine. : ColoradoCNC
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      Wouldn't you have to pay the shipping costs to send the broken one back? : Mystery0000
      • No : nudel

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• Yeah..forgot LiteOn DVD Drive $13.99 : richcz3
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  There are two prices that are way off IMO: 2 gigs of Kingston DDR 800 ram is $35-39 A license of Wind... : killboy
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    That's an OEM copy of XP. Not everyone has access to OEM copies. : Fred Garvin
    • Yeah, but EA/UltraPC probably does : MamiyaOtaru
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  Yeah, I'm sure EA and NVidia pay the same price for components as the average NewEgg customer.... : dhopkins
  • True, there will always be more discounts at the OEM level...buuuuut... there are also likely some shortc... : rasputinreborn

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  "The market is gone for the guy who will drop $1000/$2000 on a PC just to play ONE game" I wouldn't ne... : Shai-Tan
  • I thought MGS4 looked good only on screenshots. : anal justice
• I'd say you're both right. I've always buit my systems but am frankly a little sick of it (it's only real... : Vangoghs Ear

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• You're right. But people can always go back to it after they upgrade hardware. That is what gave Far ... : hussdelrio
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  I still haven't played it. Maybe when I get a 4870x2 or whatever : Shai-Tan
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    Same here. Will upgrade my computer in half a year or so (probably 4870 X2, quad core, 4GB RAM), then I'l... : code-e255
    • Same, I plan on picking it up once I built my new pc next week. 4870x2, 4gb ram, e8500. : VectorJKL

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• $699 is the monthly power bill. : Freon
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  shooters aren't that fun for me unless i get average 50-60fps at 1680x1050 : Sixcos
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    That seems a little over-demanding, imho. : ColoradoCNC
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      Why over demanding? XBox games will gladly run @ 1920x1080. When you buy a nice, high end, LCD monitor, t... : Vampyre_Dark
      • xbox games are not running @1920x1080, its upscaled. i'm not saying thats a bad thing, just that this is ... : TheFatMom
      • You're lucky if your X360 run top-notch games in 720p : guigr
      • Very, very few 360 games run natively in 1080p. Most run at 720p, and some are even below that. Call of D... : TheIneffableBob
    • 60 FPS used to be the standard until console FPS games started coming out... : Vangoghs Ear
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    That's about what I demand. Its not asking too much that a shooter looks and runs smooth on a 22" Widesc... : IHATEDUST
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      Kids are so spoiled these days. I remember when Quake first came out and we got like 20fps at 320x200 wi... : timmie
      • I remember playing netquake on my 9600 baud modem getting 500 ping Those were the good old days. : Eclipse^
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      Agreed. 1680*1050 is a very average gaming resolution, and 60 frames per second is what's considered smoo... : code-e255
      • now I get why people kept whining how bad Crysis ran... : yuried
    • I played Crysis in Very High smoothly at 720p on my 24" LCD monitor. It looked fucking amazing and ran s... : grendel
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  You shouldn't expect to run games at that resolution. 1024x768 is around the area of reasonableness. : Kristian Joensen
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    5 years ago this was correct. : spaceyme
    • It's still correct. Just like 5 years ago you couldn't expect to run most games maxed out at HUGE resolut... : ColoradoCNC
• just go ask NASA if you can borrow their supercomputers for a few hours. maybe you'll get at least 20 FPS... : spleendor

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  1024 x 1280 of course. Or 800 x 600. :D : Johnnsen
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    The former is a reasonable resolution. Shouldn't expect more from AAA FPS games. : Kristian Joensen
    • You keep saying this, but fail to realize you're wrong... : skankcore

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  Why? As long as it looks as good as other games do on the same hardware, being able to do better just mea... : AlexW1203
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    Because current hardware can barely run the software. Get it? I'm not doing your homework. : freakynipples69
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      that's why they have medium...it runs great and still looks as good as anything else out there I don't... : Bumpmapped
      • Yeah, people seem to be saying that it's a bad thing if their current games can take advantage of future ... : nudel
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  Do you have a gaming PC? Because with a 8800GTS 512 I can assure you that every games run perfectly fine... : guigr
  • hell yeah... and I want a 4870. :( I got the irrational lust. : Zolneirz
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  I think PC developers that aim their spec towards the highest percentage of the market will find themselv... : Sturm08
  • 70+% of computers sold have intel onboard graphics, and can't play ANY games. Even games that are a few y... : Vampyre_Dark
• Don't forget that hardware changes rapidly over the course of a games development span. I think part of ... : ReiMomo

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• price, genius. : Luminair
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  My guess would be that the e7300 will run cooler and provide more overclocking headroom. Cooler running ... : hussdelrio
  • but the people that are buying this thing are the same people that wouldnt know how to overclock. I thin... : .Jayson
• Price. Conroe's cost more and are phased/being phased out. A smaller manufacturing process (45 nm) mean... : korruptedone

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• There's no way it'd include anything more than the box at that price. : ThomW
• plug into hdtv like everything else : alalkoolj

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  Warhead will actually run smoother than Crysis. They are OPTIMIZING the game this time around lol... : razorblade79
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    Are you joking? Crysis ran better than assassin's creed and assassin's creed...looked good but nowhere n... : SlingBlaze
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      What I think he's referring to is the further optimizations they've figured out since Crysis shipped. The... : Schnapple
      • If the patch comes to the original Crysis i will probably buy Crysis and Warhead...otherwise neither. : SlingBlaze
      • They said this time around they are actually using this PC as a reference and trying to make it run smoot... : razorblade79
    • assasins creed ran full settings no aa 1024 on my radeon 2600 !!! nothing like crysis, any console port r... : alalkoolj

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• More information should arrive this week. : Chris Faylor

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  Crytek will no longer developer PC-only games, but will continue to develop titles for both PC and consol... : Chris Faylor
  • Ah correct, thank you. : Scoots06