I wanted to start pc gaming an I don't have a lot of money or get a lot only on holidays an such. I was wondering what Is a good computer brand that is not very expensive for gaming. I mainly want to be able to run crysis 1 at medium I cant run it on low right now. I know making your own computer is best but I don't know anything about computers.

Don't buy a prebuilt,build one by yourself, it's better and CHEAPER.
With only 600$-700$ you will run the first crysis on high and probably crysis 2 on very high.
Good luck with it.

Don't buy a prebuilt,build one by yourself, it's better and CHEAPER.
With only 600$-700$ you will run the first crysis on high and probably crysis 2 on very high.
Good luck with it. O wow that's a lot of money. Could you give me a site or something with good parts because I know nothing about computers.

Don't buy a prebuilt,build one by yourself, it's better and CHEAPER.
With only 600$-700$ you will run the first crysis on high and probably crysis 2 on very high.
Good luck with it. O wow that's a lot of money. Could you give me a site or something with good parts because I know nothing about computers.
http://www.newegg.com/Store/Computer.aspx?name=Computer-Hardware

At the left you have the categories look around and see what you can find

Don't buy a prebuilt,build one by yourself, it's better and CHEAPER.
With only 600$-700$ you will run the first crysis on high and probably crysis 2 on very high.
Good luck with it. O wow that's a lot of money. Could you give me a site or something with good parts because I know nothing about computers.
http://www.newegg.com/Store/Computer.aspx?name=Computer-Hardware

At the left you have the categories look around and see what you can find Aw ok yea I heard of that site no credit card though ill look through it. This wont happen until I get a job though

Yes it's much better to build your own system. Don't worry it's pretty simple once you know the basics so ask your questions here. It's just a case of plugging the right things together.

Yes it's much better to build your own system. Don't worry it's pretty simple once you know the basics so ask your questions here. It's just a case of plugging the right things together. Ya you guys seem to know your stuff

What monitor will you be playing on? You should think about that, in terms of resolution, before you buy a graphics card. (My point: If you plan to keep your current monitor that is like 1440x900, hypothetically, then you need considerably less performance than if you have or will have a FULL HD screen.)

Generally though you'll have no problem running Crysis on High Settings with cards at around a hundred bucks. On newegg your window would be the 100-200 dollar section of graphics cards, and I would advise you to buy an ATI because nvidia is only good for their take on features like 3D, tesselation, or physx, none of which you are going for when buying a budget system. The 3D in Crysis 2 should work on an ATI card aswell by the way.

Also remember to keep some money for an OS, Win7 will soon be necessary for games, as proven by Battlefield 3 that doesn't support XP. Also no DX11 without Win7, if you're into that.

Oh, and steer clear off models with a SECOND NUMBER BELOW SIX/SEVEN. Six for nvidia, seven for ATI. This rule is awkward to explain because of the different ways the two competitors name their ****. Examples for graphics cards you shouldn't buy: GTS 240, GTS 250, HD 5570, HD 5670. Counter-examples that you CAN buy: GTX 260 (it's nvidia so a six is okay), HD 5830 (even with a 3 in its name this one is still slightly faster than say a 5770).

Why not buy them? Because the price of the really low range cards is justified by them having IN THEORY the newest state of the art features as their big siblings - they can also do tesselation and stuff.
....Weeeell, they COULD. If they had the power for it. In reality you will never use these kinds of features with such a weak card. That is why an older high end card is always better than a newer low range card.

My suggestion would be a 5770. Good for Crysis, should be okay for Crysis 2, and you're not wasting any money on the low-end or high-end phenomenons.

(P.S. the high end phenomenon would be that from a certain point on just a few percent more performance become so expensive to manufacture that the price starts moving in an exponential way. This is why a 5850 has a much better price/performance ratio than a 5870)

Just an additional point I would like to add to WhiteKings post:

With the lastest generation of video cards from AMD (Radeon HD 6xxx series), the naming scheme was changed so that the lowest you want to go when looking for a video card is the 68xx side now instead of the old way of 57xx.

The 5xxx series was like this:

5970 (dual gpu)
5870 (high end)
5850
5830
5770 (mid range)
5750
5730 ... Generally if you are hitting the 57xx on the side of video card for this series you do not want to go below the 5770 for gaming sakes.

The new 6xxx series is like this:

6970 (high end)
6950
6870 (mid range)
6850 ... So now, you generally do not want to purchase anything lower than a 6870. All AMD did to the naming scheme was bump up the name of the range cards up 0100... so 5870 ---> 6970, 5770 ---> 6870, etc. The price/performance is still the same, only the naming scheme is different.

*Note: The 6xxx series does not have a multi-gpu video card, when/if that is released it will go by the naming scheme of 6990.

Just an additional point I would like to add to WhiteKings post:

With the lastest generation of video cards from AMD (Radeon HD 6xxx series), the naming scheme was changed so that the lowest you want to go when looking for a video card is the 68xx side now instead of the old way of 57xx.

The 5xxx series was like this:

5970 (dual gpu)
5870 (high end)
5850
5830
5770 (mid range)
5750
5730 ... Generally if you are hitting the 57xx on the side of video card for this series you do not want to go below the 5770 for gaming sakes.

The new 6xxx series is like this:

6970 (high end)
6950
6870 (mid range)
6850 ... So now, you generally do not want to purchase anything lower than a 6870. All AMD did to the naming scheme was bump up the name of the range cards up 0100... so 5870 ---> 6970, 5770 ---> 6870, etc. The price/performance is still the same, only the naming scheme is different.

*Note: The 6xxx series does not have a multi-gpu video card, when/if that is released it will go by the naming scheme of 6990.
I bought 5970 1 year ago, and I gotta say it's one beast of an card. Still on top of the benchmarks, I'll be running games maxed years with this 1.