Revision: Cheaper PCs offer a decent gaming experience

At such a price, iBuyPower offers a variety of models, including $ 999 Chimera. This machine performed great in the test. I experienced no performance drops when playing "Red Faction" to 1680 x 1050 resolution, average image quality. Face up to 1920 x 1080, but two layers and some stuttering and scanned the horizon for enemies during the game.

In Chimera comes with a decent graphics card ATI Radeon, but if you want to use an extra $ 150 for an upgrade that would be the most likely candidate. Chipset is solid, and 4 gigabytes of RAM is better. He just needs a powerful graphics card to take her to the next level.

If you simply must have a special game for your laptop needs Dell Alienware m17x is a smart buy, but will set you back $ 1,799 of the most expensive configuration. I tried to tricked-model sells for $ 3899. The result? I was able to play "Crysis" for coffee cafe with high resolution of the most extreme settings, something that some other laptop toters can boast.

A lack of Alienware laptop is size. This is a heavy animal, you never want to carry around a backpack or suitcase. This is more a desktop replacement travel companion.

The m17x has an Intel Core 2 Extreme Quad 2.53 GHz processor operates, to sit with a powerful graphics card to serve these high levels of the framework of "Crysis" and other similar games. It comes with 4 gigabytes of RAM, and all components are fine-tuned to provide two high-end, high quality gaming experience.

In short, if you have $ 1000 or less than two uses, I'd recommend something from CyberPower. The company builds very aggressively styled, inexpensive machines that can still give you a decent game. If money is no object and you want a machine that looks better than Ferrari, Falcon Northwest, the trend setter.

Anything less than $ 700 risked feeling slow and outdated when the next incarnation of "Crysis" came out. If you have any serious gamer, you better spend a little more planning.

For $ 3856, diminutive FragBox Falcon Northwest is a serious ding in your wallet, but it contains a dual graphics card that supports multiple languages, 12 GB RAM and Intel Core i7 processor rated to cool 3:06 gigahertz - all in one window, which is much shorter than typical PC tower. For this price, you also get 24-inch Samsung high-definition LCD display.

In FragBox run "Crysis", and a second processor hog, "Red Faction: Guerrilla," without a hitch. These are two of the most complex games on the market, with detailed graphics and complex action scenes.

In FragBox also scored in the standard tests performed using software from Futuremark Corp.. What measures graphics rendering and other tasks, handling various sizes of display quality and settings. Simply put, the FragBox can run the most complex games on the most extreme settings.

Compare that to something in the low end price range: from $ 499 from Maelstrom CyberPower Inc.

This is a full size tower unit, which is robust, futuristic look. This device has an AMD Athlon 2.8 GHz processor and 2 GB of RAM. This is the sixth of memory offered by FragBox.

There is noticeable slowdown if you try to play games on a large screen in full screen with high resolution and a negligible amount of RAM. I had to make do with the game "Crysis" and "Red Faction" in a small window, full screen and meditative experience that will not go here.

CyberPower came through strong, albeit with a different model tower costing $ 500 to $ 999th Higher in 4200 Gamer Xtreme sports a high resolution ATI Radeon graphics card and the latest Intel processor line Lynnfield, key i5 running at 2.66 GHz.

More importantly, the XtremeGamer 4200 is a dual memory - up to 4 gigabytes. This helps to support new chipsets for Intel, and the results show. The benchmark test results showed a high degree of frames per second when rendering graphics. I was able to play "Crysis" and "Red Faction" in full screen without any problems.

Personal computers designed specifically for gamers are becoming more powerful and more affordable by the month. They are bursting with multi-core processors for powerful video graphics and lots of memory gives you the most realistic graphics and action.

Although it should come as no surprise that the computers can run consistently good games are those in the high end of the price spectrum, I found the machines for about $ 1,000, which can give you a decent player.

The cheapest, but was disappointing when they are confronted with complex games that can push a system to its limit.

With prices coming down, PC gamers on the verge of buying a new machine, ask yourself: Does it look cool, and it can run "Crysis"?

"Crysis", a futuristic first person shooter, is steeper hardware requirements than the typical game that already has a tendency to push boundaries. So if your computer is powerful enough to "Crysis", it can probably run all games on the market.

The machines are running "Crysis" good to have powerful graphics and multi-core processors - essentially multiple processors on a single chip, working in synch.

These computers also have a generous amount of random access memory, or RAM, which is key to allowing games to run smoothly. The numerous calculations a game requires each second is primarily made with data uploaded to fly to the available RAM on your computer. The more you have, the more data your computer can access quickly.

In my test, Falcon Northwest delivers best machines when price is no object.