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As if the brand new Bioshock video wasn't reason enough to steal your grandmother's life savings for a new gaming rig, these five new screenies may push you over the edge. Massive detailed weapons, demented environments complete with morbid checkered tile cliche, creepy Kubrick-meets-King monsters (why is that thing holding a doll?), and gorgeous scenarious filled with filth and decay.

Just out of curiosity -- who among us has a top notch gaming rig to actually see the game this way? Are you guys planning on PC upgrades anytime soon or are you saving your pennies for the new console wares available?  Post your specs! I'll go first.

Athlon Xrelevant 2600+ years ago
Nvidia 6800GTX, devourer of 2 power supplies
1 GB Firefox tab cache
120GB unfragmented grind
19" frame for 3 dead pixels
DVD-R with infinite spin chassis shake technology

I'm so not ready. 


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DeusPayne's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 14:30
DeusPayne
I think my 8800GTX, 2GB DDR2 800, Athlon 64 X2 4200+, on my 2407WFP monitor will do me nicely. So... when is this coming out? I need it now.
Jordan Devore's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 14:54
Jordan Devore
I have a gig of DDR2, AMD Sempron 3300+, and a generic 19" LCD ... back to the old 360 I guess.
BlindsideDork's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 14:55
BlindsideDork
hmmmm, good stuff.

so what makes it different?
Faraday's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 15:00
Faraday
that doll is the little sister thingy.
i'll most prb get this for 360, cos i'm too poor to upgrade my pc. the 15 minunte walkthrough vid was done on a 360 (i assume this because i saw 360 buttons on the screen when he did stuff and such) so i think it'll look just as good.
Namelessted's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 15:22
Namelessted
yeah, i have an AMD 3200+ in a laptop and some other shit. I am just going to have to get an xbox 360, though i would rather have the FPS on a PC.
Aetsen's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 15:22
Aetsen
Intel E6300 Core 2 @ 3.5 GHz
EVGA nForce 680i
2GB Corsair DDR2
BFG 7800GT OC
19" Samunsung LCD

It better be enough because I'm not upgrading my pc again until Crysis comes out.
SaDyST1K's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 15:27
SaDyST1K
AMD Athlon X2 4400+ @ 2.6 GHz
Asus A8n-32SLi
1.5 GB Corsair Dual Channel
XFX 7900 GT

woop..
jimjo's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 15:28
jimjo
the "doll" is a gatherer.there the ones that harvest adam from dead bodies. the "thing" is a protector.they make sure the gatherer/adam gets where it needs to go.
DeusPayne's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 15:30
DeusPayne
@Aetsen: You overclocked your C2D by about 95%? Impressive (if true). Additionally, I don't think the 7800GT will hold up until Q2 '07 (assuming no delays). And may I ask why you have nForce 600 series bridge when you're not using SLI, or a DX10 card?
Aetsen's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 15:41
Aetsen
DeusPayne: Everybody knows the Conroes overclock like crazy man! The reason I bought the latest and somewhat greatest Motherboard out, is because my old one broke. I don't have enough money to buy 2 8800GTXs tight now and I don't really need them. I'm hoping to buy 2 of the best nVidia cards and a 30" display all at once some time next year. I might SLi the 7800GT if things get too slow. I've seen them used for 150-200.
BluDesign's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 16:03
BluDesign
Kubrick.

Sorry if I seem like the spelling nazi lately, but I was a film major, wrote two papers about him, so I gotta stand up for the man.
pattern's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 16:04
pattern
Ok, I can play this game!

At-schloong 64 +3200 (inches!!! i swear!!)
Nvidia 6800 Grrreally cheap edition
1 Ginormus byte of RAM
290 GB non-available harddisk space
19" flat thingy-ma-jiggly
And uh... a DVD drive somewhere.

2 FPS!! Damn that's smooth!!
AltDelete's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 16:52
AltDelete
Pent 4
Nvidia 6200
1GB Ram
17" Monitor
1.35TB over two 400GB satas, an external 300GB, and a 250IDE.

Which one of these is not like the other? ^^;
toast!'s Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 16:52
toast!
Wooo mine is the worst I think!
AMD Athlon 3200 (2.00 ghz)
2gig RAM
nVidia 6600 (cuz my parents know how to buy video cards :P)

BUT i'm already saving... soemtime in july when vista is out and going well, and dx10 is released i'll be upgrading to a peecee that is well qualified to play this game :P
boobert's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 19:11
boobert
My rig is 3 years old.

P4 2.4
Radeon 9800Pro
DVD+R drive
2 gigs of RAM

Hoping to build a new rig next year.
cinsoccer's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 19:28
cinsoccer
Sadly my pc won't run shit for games, so it'll be to the 360 for me on this one. Can't wait.
Samit Sarkar's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 20:01
Samit Sarkar
I bought a laptop right before I started college two years ago, and it doesn't play games (integrated video FTW!) Also, I'll be investing in a PS3 as soon as I can get my hands on one, so I'll just have to play this on my brother's 360.
Joel's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 20:12
Joel
That doll is the Little Sister. But that's not it's protector. That's another creature.
djnexus911's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 20:40
djnexus911
I dont need to have my PC ready, thats why I do most of my gaming on consoles now days for the simple fact unless your rich, upgrading your pc to support the newest games becomes really expensive... I think ill wait till Vista, DX10 later on next year before a pc upgrade anyways.
Civnerd's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 21:19
Civnerd
eVGA 7800GTX and 2 gigs OCZ ram... but still getting this on the 360 :D
CannibalCalvin 's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 22:06
CannibalCalvin
um... am I the only one who thinks that the screens look bad?
fuege's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 22:26
fuege
put this together about this time last year:

AMD Athlon 64 X2 4800+
OCZ 2GB SDRAM
eVGA 7900 GT OC x 2 sli'd
Western Digital Caviar SE16 400 GB Hard Drive x 2
Creative SOUND BLASTER X-Fi Xtreme Music
soon to have: dell 24" monitor (2407wfp)

can't wait to see what this game would look like in 1920x1200

Colette Bennett's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 22:28
Colette Bennett
Cannibal Calvin: Yes.
Mxyzptlk's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/14/2006 23:26
Mxyzptlk
Awesome. You get to kill things with a WRENCH!
Aequitas's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/15/2006 00:12
Aequitas
My rig won't run this.

Athlon XP 2600+
1GB Corsair DDR
Geforce FX 5600

After the holidays, I'll get a Socket 939 motherboard, an Opteron 165, another gig of DDR, and a 7900-ish video card.

Socket AM2 and DX10 cards can bite my ass.
ATGofISB's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/15/2006 17:03
ATGofISB
I believe my computer has...
-250 gigabyte hard disk space
-1 gig memory
-GeForce 7800 craphics card
-19" LCD display
-Stereo Speakers
....And many other specs I can't remember...Its a Gateway comp.
CannibalCalvin 's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/16/2006 13:46
CannibalCalvin
Everything looks like its plastic, nothing pulls me into the world. This is going to suffer the Uncanny Valley effect.
Dot's Avatar - Comment posted on 12/18/2006 06:11
Dot
I could run this-I have AMD X2 4600, 2gb memory, Radeon X1900XTX, Creative X-Fi Elite Pro, 2x500gb HDDs in Raid-0.
And I am going to upgrade to quad core/DX10 right before Crysis is released as well.
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