- System Builder Marathon: Low-Cost System
- The World's Best Hardware Prices
- DIY Solar-Powered PC: Solar Components
- SBM 5: Price/Performance
- SBM 4: Overclocking The Competitors
- SBM 3: High-End System
- Do-It-Yourself Solar-Powered PC: Live Test
- SBM 2: Mid Cost System
- SBM 1: Low Cost System
- Do-It-Yourself Solar-Powered PC: Hardware
- Why is Q6700 $290 more than Q6600?
- AMD 3700 & 8800 good match?
- suggestions on a CPU...never build a computer before...
- Can this PSU handle it?
- PS question
- System Builder Marathon: Overclocking Day 3
- System Builder Marathon (Overclocking) Day 1
- Will the GIGABYTE GA-MA790X-DS4 work for me?
- Posting and reposting with K9N4 Ultra
- RAM and Motherboard question
Game Benchmarks - First Person Shooters, Continued
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Game Benchmarks - First Person Shooters, Continued

Crysis proves to be a pretty hard nut for our mid-range system to crack. Very high detail with 4xAA isn't really a viable option at any resolution. Even high detail causes the system to struggle, although it does pretty well, and 1650x1080 is borderline playable.
In the low-cost PC article we mentioned that Crysis was playable at 1920x1200 at medium details with shader quality set to 'high'. The mid-range PC is a bit more powerful than that. It allows you to crank a few other settings, such as texture quality, to high, while still delivering very playable performance.
The unfortunate part is that here is where dual 8800 GT cards in SLI would have really shone as opposed to the single 8800 GTX in our mid-range system.
But enough sour grapes! It's time to move on to another tough title, Supreme Commander.
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Why wouldn't you put 1066MHz (PC2-8500) memory on this machine?
I assume they are using Cas 4 memory, which you are not going to find in this price range at PC2-8500.