The Falcon Northwest Mach V makes your gaming beast look like an infant
I remember back last summer I reported on a military supercomputer called 'Roadrunner'. The machine had reached a new milestone in computing history, surpassing a speed of over 1.026 quadrillion calculations per second, attaining the petaflop measurement. Reader 'bigjdubb' amusingly commented, "But will it run Crysis???" It was a great joke, and while obviously an exaggeration on the game's requirements, it certainly wasn't unfounded.
For instance, CNet has just reported the Falcon Northwest Mach V, the fastest all-around desktop they've ever tested, is now the first machine to run Crysis at a full 60 frames per second (fps) in high resolution. Here are the specs:
| | Falcon Northwest Mach V |
| Price | $8,028 |
| Motherboard chipset | Intel X58 |
| CPU | 3.79GHz Intel Core i7-965 Extreme Edition (overclocked) |
| Memory | 12GB 1,066MHz DDR3 SDRAM |
| Graphics | (2) 1GB ATI Radeon HD 4870 X2 |
| Hard drives | 1TB 7,200rpm Hitachi hard drive; 80GB Intel X-25M solid state drive |
| Optical drive | 20x dual-layer DVD burner with LightScribe; 4x dual-layer Blu-ray burner |
| Operating system | Windows Vista Ultimate SP1 64-bit |
Eight grand is actually a fair bit less than I expected. But yeah, you could buy about 40 Xbox 360s, 20 PS3s, 27 Wiis or 130 games for that price. Demanding, much?
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Note: In Autralia, It will probably cost nearly $20,000. As a result, a car is a more useful choice for life, Hee Hee!!!!!!
crysis doesnt care too much about cpu and the rest.
DUNIA powers Far Cry 2 and has no ties to CryEngine 2 which powers Crysis and as such the results can be night and day.
Like with any hobby, trying to eke out the last ounce of perf costs far more than trying to get "good" to "great" perf.