PC Crysis

Horatii · 12 Dec 2007 at 12:40

Hi
Hoping to make a PC for my son so he can play Crysis on the best settings I can on a budget. I have Win XP and I dont overclock. Heres what ive put together so far :-
Product Name Qty Price Line Total
Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 250GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (ST3250410AS) £38.99
(£45.81) £38.99
(£45.81)
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail £97.99
(£115.14) £97.99
(£115.14)
Antec Sonata III Piano Black Quiet Case - EarthWatts 500W PSU £61.99
(£72.84) £61.99
(£72.84)
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard £53.99
(£63.44) £53.99
(£63.44)
OcUK GeForce 8800 GT 512MB GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail £144.99
(£170.36) £144.99
(£170.36)
Corsair 2GB DDR2 XMS2-6400C4 TwinX (2x1GB) £30.99
(£36.41) £30.99
(£36.41)
Pioneer DVR-212DBK 18x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer ReWriter (Black) - OEM £16.99
(£19.96) £16.99
(£19.96)
Arctic Cooling Freezer 7 Pro CPU Cooler (Socket LGA775) £14.99
(£17.61) £14.99
(£17.61)

Are there any improvements I can make to this? Max budget to spend is £600

Thanx

Slinwagh · 12 Dec 2007 at 12:44

Looking at that briefly it looks spot on, the only thing I would look at changing is the hard disk for a larger one, 250Gb today isn't massive.

geeza · 12 Dec 2007 at 12:45

a screen so you can see crysis

semi-pro waster · 12 Dec 2007 at 12:45

I can't see any obvious improvements to be made although if you aren't overclocking you might find that the stock CPU cooler is fine for your needs.

Hypersonix · 16 Dec 2007 at 10:09

Hi there,
I built almost exactly the same system you proposed and I am chuffed to bits with it .
I already had XP and the Sonata III case .

OCZ 2GB (2x1GB) PC2-8500C5 1066MHz SLI-Ready Edition Dual Channel DDR2 (OCZ2N1066SR2GK) 1 £64.99
Gigabyte GA-P35-DS3L Intel P35 (Socket 775) PCI-Express DDR2 Motherboard 1 £53.99
Intel Core 2 Duo E6750 "LGA775 Conroe" 2.66GHz (1333FSB) - Retail 1 £101.99
Arctic Silver 5 Thermal Compound (3.5g) 1 £5.99
Asus DRW-1814BLT 18x DVD±RW SATA Dual Layer Lightscribe ReWriter (Black) - Retail 1 £19.99
Western Digital Caviar SE16 400GB SATA-II 16MB Cache - OEM (WD4000AAKS) 1 £44.99
Thermalright Ultra-120 Extreme CPU Cooler (Socket AM2/LGA775) 1 £34.99
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri): £8.95
VAT: £58.78
Order Total: £394.66

Plus I added this

EVGA GeForce 8800 GT 512MB Superclocked "Crysis Edition" GDDR3 HDTV/Dual DVI (PCI-Express) - Retail (512-P2-E802-AE-CrysisUK) £0.00 1 £174.99
City Link Parcel Next Day (Delivered Mon-Fri): £8.00
VAT: £32.02
Order Total: £215.01

It all went together in a couple of hours and fired up faultlessly. I can play Crysis on my 19" widescreen at 1440x900 , everything on high with 2XAA and am getting 25 to 38 FPS . AWESOME

I am really please with everything. Just trying to decide now on which new monitor to get . Samsung SM226BW/CW or OC24" bargain . Not sure if the 24" is too much for my gfx card or if the 22" would look and play better .

And then to oc it all ...