Electronic Arts has released further details on their line of Crysis-ready PCs that include pricing and system specifications.
Retail price is $699, the Crysis Warhead PC is a collaborative effort between EA, game developer Crytek, hardware manufacturer Nvidia, and system builder UltraPC. The PC will launch alongside the game on September 16th and will include the following specifications:
* CPU: Intel Core Duo e7300 (@2.66GHz)
* Video card: Nvidia 9800GT
* RAM: 2GB
The system represents the result of an initial internal benchmark Crytek Budapest used during development of the Crysis stand alone expansion. It is said to run Warhead at 30 frames per second on High settings enabled.
“When we started working on Warhead, we decided performance was a big issue,”
“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’…All the milestone presentations we did for EA, for the [founding brothers] Yerlies, for the team, all the new prototypes, we showed on that machine.”
– Franchise Producer, Bernd Diemer
Diemer states that the new PC will not be a factor in the hardware market.
