Since there has been alot of custom builds lately I was surprised to find this article from my favorite magazine. Thought I'd post it as a sort of guideline for anyone interested in building a gaming rig.
Had to laugh at the articles headline of "building a budget gaming rig" with a price tag of $1,615...:eek:
from Maximum PC.com:
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Had to laugh at the articles headline of "building a budget gaming rig" with a price tag of $1,615...:eek:
from Maximum PC.com:
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When the original Crysis dropped six years ago, it quickly became the gold standard for visual splendor—and enthusiast agony. Gamers the world over fired up the demo, only to find their previously potent GPU coughing and sputtering. Thus began The Great Upgrade Rush of 2007, as we all upgraded just to play Crysis, and the game became the benchmark for PC gaming for years to come. Whenever a new GPU arrived, the first question on everyone’s mind was, "Will it run Crysis?" When Crysis 2 came along it was a console port, and somewhat scaled-back technologically. The environments were small by PC standards, and developer Crytek didn't expose advanced settings for us to mess with. With Crysis 3, though, Crytek has claimed it would make your PC its b****, and we must say after benchmarking it that we agree; b*****s will be made. So, for this month's Build It, we set out to tame the beast by putting together a bang-for-the-buck Crysis 3 machine, settling the question of whether or not you need a $500 video card or CPU to run the game at 40-plus frames per second at 1080p. It sounds like a tall order, but we'll talk you through the build, explain all the choices we made, and what mistakes we almost made. |