Many of you, like me, must be disappointed that we don’t have the pocket to afford the $1000 dollar-PCs just for Crysis. But hold on a minute, that’s about to change, because UltraPC, EA, Crytek and nVidia have come together to make a machine that not only delivers that superb performance for Crysis, but all of it at an affordable price (at least for me) of $699. It’s called the Crysis Warhead PC, due to be released along with the game on the 16th.
Bernd Diemer, Crysis’ franchise producer said,
When we started working on Warhead, we decided performance was a big issue. So we said, ‘Guys, we’re going to build a PC which has a maximum price of six or seven hundred dollars, and it has to run Warhead in high spec at an average framerate of 30.’ We built that PC - Crytek in the Budapest Office (where Warhead was developed) - and we put it in the middle of the studio, and every review was on that machine. All the milestone presentations we did for EA, for the Yerlies (founding brothers Cevat, Avni and Faruk), for the team, all the new prototypes, we showed on that machine.
I think the PC will certainly be perfect for nearly any game that requires anything close to what Crysis does. With an Intel Core Duo e7300 (2.66GHz), 2GB RAM and an nVidia 9800GT, I’m sure you’d agree.
Via: Snag Wire Media, Chris Remo
