What a rip. I just built a similar PC from newegg for $500 including rebates and shipping. Of course, I used the cheapest components available which i'm this 'crysis' system has done.

its not a rip
it looks like a evga video card
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6814130380
that's pretty good
and it does include an operating system, keyboard and mouse
that's at least $140 you would have to spend just on the os if you were building it completely from scratch
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Prod [...] 6832116515


so its not that bad

I think this is great. This is what the PC gaming industry needs. Some standardized gaming platform that console players can easily transition to.

Building pcs for yourself will always bring about more bang for ones buck, this is just a given. I hope we see more of these machines as I am tired of playing poorly ported games. Mercenaries 2 sucks on PC 1280x720 only.

I hope we see more standardized pc platforms and perhaps more of a hardware grading tier.. as if hardware manufacturers could ever agree on this.

Well, my quick $500 build includes gaming mouse and keyboard. But yeah, I didn't include an OS. So you would save a bit over $60 building it from scratch with the XP pro. That's not as bad then.

Yeah, for a non techy, that's a great buy. Go configure a similar machine on dell or hp and see how much it is.

EXCEPT

what i love about this article... is no where does it say what resolution they want it to be playable at... if its like 1024 by 768... its such a rip... if its like 1680 by 1050... thats awesome

but it's more than likely a very low resolution that few people use anymore... even 1280 by 1024 is pushing it in my opinion... sure thats what most people have... but what does that say about optimization? currently older cards such as the 8800 gt and 9600 gt can play crysis on all high at over 30 fps at that res... so it better be a higher resolution other wise the whole optimization spiel they're throwing around is crap

I looked twice and I didn't see that the Crysis machine has an OS listed. What OS comes with it? Are we to guess Vista?

I will admit its a good pc for a person that wouldnt build their own gaming rig...but for must of us here, we could easily put together a better rig with a quad core, 4gigs of ram, and an HD4850, for about the same price..lol...(just put together something on newegg real quick, just to double check )

Ok... at the very bottom of the article it does say it comes with xp.

IMO it's complete BS that the system doesn't come with the game.

a quick glance, and that build looks really solid... i just wonder how much bloatware they filled that thing up for a profit

thogrom: I play Crysis on mostly high settings at 1900x1200 on an 8800GT, so it is very likely that that machine can play at high resolutions, especially since warhead is supposed to be more optimized.

“For us, it was really helpful, because we sort of had a hard cap,” Diemer added. “You couldn’t say, ‘It works on my computer, looks great on my machine.’ No no no, this is the benchmark, guys. If it sucks on this, the whole thing sucks. For us as a team, that was really valuable. We had a tangible border we could bump our heads into.”

PC game devs really need this kind of thinking. i hate it when a game comes out and its only playable on uber high-end machines. thats why id pick COD4 over crysis anytime as the better game..

and cod 4 still looks great!

I like it!!! I also like that i have nearly the same specs as that machine and will be guaranteed to play high at 30 FPS!!! although i can already do that now with the now "old" Crysis...

I like it!!! I also like that i have nearly the same specs as that machine and will be guaranteed to play high at 30 FPS!!! although i can already do that now with the now "old" Crysis...

why are these idiots putting a micro board in a full ATX case????

airflow.

Isn't that a Cop Out? I mean putting XP so you can run it in DX9 instead of DX10 and say it's running in High Quality?

Great, so warhead is going to be even more optimised for nvidia only than the original crysis.

why not optimise for 4 platforms, one with an intel CPU and ATI card, one with a intel cpu and nvidia card, and the same again but with an AMD CPU.

and why not a quad core CPU??? crysis is, afterall, supposed to be multi-core compatible.

QFT

LOL, no way.

a radeon 4870 plays 1680x1020 res all high (not v. high) but the 8800GT wont do. you'd need at least a GTX280 if not a 4870x2 to play at resolutions higher than than at high settings.

http://www.tomshardware.com/review [...] 992-5.html

I agree with the first guy. I'm from Canada and with our smaller market and higher prices I still can easily spec the entire PC including XP pro, gaming keyboard and mouse for under $600 CAD. As much as I'd like to think its about time for PC gaming to have a standard gaming rig, but A rip off is still a rip off. Besides did you guys hear the interview with Bernd Diemer from Crytek by IGN. Bernd said that the team specked out the PC over 2 months ago and it was $700 USD or so back then. If they still charge for $700 now then its really too pricy.

LOL i built my system 6 months ago , sure it's little more pricey and included speakers in it's cost as well as a much nicer case with big fans, but it came out to about teh same as this in performance

my specs

Case: Cool master Centurion 590 Mid tower case

Power: 450 watt Corsair 80% efficent certified PSU

Main Board: Biostar A770 A2+

Processor:
athy x2 5000+ BE (oc'ed to 3ghz) (w/ cool master hyper thx2 cooler)

Ram: 2 gigs ddr2 800 ram

hard Drive: 320 gig hard drive

DVD: one dvd BURNER

Video: GF 9600 GT

Sound card: sound blaster X-FI xtreme music sound card

Speakers: coby 150 wtt 5.1 speakers

Fans: four, 120x120x25 mm (apevia) and two 140x140x25 mm (Xilco)

OS: Free re-used XP w/sp3

Total Price : 789 bucks

ok granted it costed more than theirs consider these facts

i got speakers that were 50 bucks that brings it down to 739. then
minus the 100 dollar sound card and we are down to 639.

ok granted my system is well propably over cooled ( honestly LOL get MB temps of low 20's (celesius) and proc temps of 28 on idle and 38 on load LOL ) so let's say cut out the two Gi-normous 140's on teh top of my case which were 16 bucks each ( and just move some of teh 120's around to the top. that brings us down to 607$ even if you go with a gf 9800 instead of my 9600 (which costed more then, than it does now ) you'd still get a price of around 630-650 AT MOST) so unless they are using the cheapest , disk drives , and the cheapest case , and the cheapest cooling fans /heat sinks , then i'd say this isn't a bad deal at least not for the average consumer , but system builder freaks like myself would still do better building it our selves.

ntoe for my PSU , case , and disk drives I uswed high quality , but medium priced parts, their is porbably better otu ther than what i used in my built , but not for the price of what i got , adn at least my parts arn't cheaply made , my psu freaking awsome for a 450 wt ( single heavy duty +12 v rail rated at 33 amps !) for example .

note my hard drive is also a SATA 2 based drive (though my dvd burner is IDE because i heard that many main boards don't reconised dvd drives right off (with out bios drivers for them) if they are sata 2)

So here's the challenge: Can anyone build a better system cheaper? If not, this appears to be the way to go. If so, they've suddenly become someone I'd like to talk to about purchasing a new system.

Nice... a machine with drm protected game preinstalled...

They must have severely optimized Warhead. The original crysis would croak on that machine. I just hope they didn't sacrifice eye candy for performance.

Also dont forget this is EA. They want your money. They don't care if you can build it cheaper

bull,
you say you can build that under $600 ? Then post the prices and specs
just be sure to include the MS XP
and do it without rebates and be sure to include shipping

you might be able to save a little, but you sure aint saving a lot
and this pc is obviously not for people who build pcs

its meant for people who want to play a game without worrying whether or not their pc meets minimum requirements and for people who don't want to be bothered with buying stuff and possibly having to RMA it

this is a very good pc at a very good price

learn to read
where in the article does it say the pc comes with a game preinstalled?

So you're saying that the builders should make absolutely zero profit? Not everyone can just throw together a PC.