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A q6600 CPU, GTX 9800 1g, and 4gb of ram can run Crysis on max with a good framerate. I don't want to re-install it and boot it up, but suffice to say the game ran damn smooth and looked beautiful.

q6600 + GTX 9800 1g is maybe 350-400 atm. 4 gb of good ram maybe 60. Insert Mobo, case, PSU, HD and fans for another 300+ = less than 1k. Of course I splurged on my Case and fans, so it cost me more than that, plus all my other goodies. But the point is, It's do-able.

Add that to the fact that you never really need that sort of power, you can play any new PC game or MMO with much lower grade peices. You can run most games these days smooth with a mere 6800 nvidia VGA.

What do you consider smooth?

I wouldn't even consider myself able to run crysis smooth despite the fact that I have 6 gig's of RAM, a GTX 295, and an i7 920.

Why does this even matter? He does not even need to run Crysis, let alone on max.

Quote from: Seifer on September 10, 2010, 01:50:12 PM
Why do you have the idea that 1,000$ is budget? Are you some rich kid?

The 'Budget PC' that I posted if you clicked the link was only $659, also Don't forget about the exchange rate as me and JoEL live in Australia which with current exchange rates is about $600 USD and in Australia everything is a little more expensive anyway. It only gets close to $1000 if you get the one bundled with the screen and speakers and whatnot which would be about $850 USD I would guess.

SO yes that i would consider a budget PC and in Australia I would consider under $1000 to be a budget PC.

Quote from: Jake on September 10, 2010, 06:30:52 PM
What do you consider smooth?

I wouldn't even consider myself able to run crysis smooth despite the fact that I have 6 gig's of RAM, a GTX 295, and an i7 920.

Time to install Crysis..

Quote from: Seifer on September 11, 2010, 07:09:31 AM

Quote from: Jake on September 10, 2010, 06:30:52 PM
What do you consider smooth?

I wouldn't even consider myself able to run crysis smooth despite the fact that I have 6 gig's of RAM, a GTX 295, and an i7 920.

Time to install Crysis..

I believe Jake knows my comps specs because he helped me order it...

I have a GTX285m, 6GB ram,i7 quad core...the works.

Can I successfully run Crysis maxed out on every single possible highest setting? Yes.
Is there graphical errors? Sudden black spots in random locations? Sudden loss of frame-rate in REALLY intense alien battles? Yes. Yes. and Yes. And I do consider my PC pretty high-end.

sorry but 1k for a comp is alot no matter where you live. if you are spending 2k on a computer you arent poor. i bet the people that say they are poor probably live in a place that is more then 1k sq ft. i live in a house that is only 360 sq ft and dont even have a bedroom or a bed.

Quote from: venuse on September 11, 2010, 05:16:37 PM
sorry but 1k for a comp is alot no matter where you live. if you are spending 2k on a computer you arent poor. i bet the people that say they are poor probably live in a place that is more then 1k sq ft. i live in a house that is only 360 sq ft and dont even have a bedroom or a bed.

If you sold your art you would live in a house on a plot of land surpassing 1k sq ft.

Quote from: venuse on September 11, 2010, 05:16:37 PM
sorry but 1k for a comp is alot no matter where you live. if you are spending 2k on a computer you arent poor. i bet the people that say they are poor probably live in a place that is more then 1k sq ft. i live in a house that is only 360 sq ft and dont even have a bedroom or a bed.

Yeppp. My thoughts exactly. Our idea of "poor" and theres is very different. When I think poor, I'm talking I have a single mother who waitresses. My family doesn't drive, and we live paycheque to paycheque. That is poor. Where do you fit in a 2 grand computer exactly? And even if your a kid(since SO is full of them) working a part time job that you get to keep all the money from, your probably getting say, 400$ pay cheque every 2 weeks, if you work good hours. Of that 400, you probably spend 150-200, since your family doesn't have a dime to give you, so you buy your own meals at school, and spend your own money to go out with friends. So your saving 250 every 2 weeks, 500 a month, thats 4 months to save for a computer. That's a pretty long time when you think about it. I'm pretty sure we didn't want to just tell mr.I need a computer solution here to go save for 4 months and come back and THAN we will help him.