System Builder Marathon, December 2010: $2000 PC
With all of your feedback from last quarter's System Builder Marathon under our belts, this time around, we attempt to fit a no-sacrifice, luxury and performance build into our moderately-high $2000 budget. Will this new build succeed on all fronts?
Benchmark Results: Crysis
The memory bottleneck previously seen in Call of Duty: Modern Warfare 2 isn’t so apparent in Crysis, yet the current system’s GeForce GTX 470s barely outperform the previous machine’s GeForce GTX 460s in spite of the newer machine’s far higher CPU overclock.
All configurations play Crysis at Very High details and every resolution. We even checked the lowest results to confirm a minimum of at least 20 FPS before making that statement. Perhaps its time to take these machines down a notch by enabling anti-aliasing, too?
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micr0be i think im gona get a revo 2 drive ssd to upgrade my current build.... all thanks to santa !!Reply -
Tamz_msc Its good to know that choosing the wrong memory can affect performance in such a way.Reply -
fstrthnu I'm pretty surprised we didn't see Geforce GTX 570s in this build, I guess they got released too late to make it here.Reply -
kkiddu Most perfect build ever ? Just read the configs yet, and I think that's a possibility.Reply
Now don't skin me if the config proves to be a flop in the coming pages. Just read the first page and couldn't resist a comment. -
hemburger Why not replace the two ssd's with a single intel 120gb... same price and now on 35nmReply -
kkiddu I think this one can be trimmed to a very good $1500 build as well. Change the CPU to i5 760, remove one of the cards, one of the SSDs, and you'll need lower capacity PSU for that, let's slash $30-$50 there, you get a very good PC for $1500.Reply -
kkiddu And oh, cheapen the case as well. There's no free lunch. You gotta sacrifice some silence to gains some frame rates.Reply