System Builder Marathon, June 2011: Value Compared

Benchmark Results: Crysis

It doesn't make much sense to test the $500 machine at 2560x1600, since a 30" screen costs at least two times what the PC itself would run. More likely is that a gamer would buy a value-oriented system for resolutions of up to 1680x1050. And that's where we see this system show most competitively.

The $1000 build performs admirably up to 1920x1080 at our higher Crysis settings, stumbling only slightly at the $200 machine’s 2560x1600 target resolution.

Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.