Crysis 2 trailer takes us to a decidedly unsafe zone

@d3sc3nd3ncy

I wish people would realize you don't need to spend your life savings in order to get a decent gaming rig, instead of blindly throwing numbers out without doing any research.

@d3sc3nd3ncy

Yeah, no.

I mean, if you want to be the enthusiast, running the game using Eyefinity or whatever on a 5970 or two, with multiple SSDs in Raid 0, some intense cooling for overclocking, and a beefy power supply (and of course, lots of RAM at 1600 with a great mobo that can run multiple cards at 16x and maybe a top of the line i7), then you may start hitting these unreasonable numbers.

I mean, yeah, even decent rigs are expensive.. You can buy a console for cheaper now, at $300, and I think a decent rig will cost you at least $600, assuming it's from scratch and you can't get any of the parts any other way. And no, with a decent rig, you won't be playing at resolutions like 1920x1080 and probably not even at max settings with any AA and AF at low. But if you really were an enthusiast, then you wouldn't care, and you'd go all out for that.

And then there's the extra risk of DOA parts, and messing up your build if you don't know what you're doing.

But that stuff is easily workable. If you actually want to try PC gaming, you won't be bitching about price, because anyone who has actually done it before and does research, finds that competent machines DO NOT take a lot of power, because you aren't going in for the best of the best to get the extra 10FPS with everything topped out, instead you're going for something that can keep your games at around 60FPS and still look better than most of what your console games offer.