Crysis 2 can run on a $600 PC

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ErikStenger

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You've bought all the components, inserted tab A into slot B and tightened lord-knows-how-many thumbscrews. Your handcrafted PC is finished, and all for less than $600. "But can it run Crysis?" your friend asks? If you followed a handy guide from GeForce, the answer is yes.

Starting with its own $150 GeForce GTX 550 Ti graphics card, the company has compiled a list of parts needed to competently run CryTek's GPU-hungry Crysis 2. Assuming you've got the basics covered (mouse, keyboard, monitor, etc), the whole rig will only run you $599.92. While this setup won't allow maximum settings, it still kicks out a decent frame rate using above average graphical configurations.

As a bonus, it should also shut your snarky friend up.

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Crysis 2 running and looking good on a sub $600 PC? Yep
 
LOL yeah i was looking at the 550 Ti but even pinching the heck out of money there is no way I could do it for 600 bucks. My GPU CPU MOBO and RAM are sitting at 615 atm. 550 Ti, i5-2500K (Non K is 20 bucks cheaper) Slightly spending too much on a dual x16 slot mobo but want it for future upgrades. Ram is pretty cheap.

I see they went the acceptable AMD route and cheaped way out on the board. Good stuff.
 
Either way, if I get Crysis 2, I'm not going to get a sub-par system to run it. Hell, I just built this system.
 
Crysis 2 sucks atm; only DX9 and it plays like MW2 (at least from memory). Anything can run Crysis 2.

Anandtech says they found the GTX 550 Ti to be quite lacking. In fact, it fell behind the practically ancient Radeon HD 4870 or HD 5770 in many benchmarks. It's nowhere near an HD 5850, either.
 
And they marketed this game to be superior to Crysis... Right... Never trust a PR person from mainstream developers ;).
 
It's nice to see how bare minimal to run the game. I prefer having a computer that'll run near max to max settings on any game I install on it. Whether the game is a RAM, GPU or a CPU hog I got it covered.
 
I've spent probably $2k on mine over its long life. Crysis 2 in DX9 mode runs flawlessly. DX11 will depend on implementation, but my HD 5850 should do alright.
 
Well I built from scratch because my computer took a shit and died permanently and my mom's computer sucks for even basic gaming.
 
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