I'm planning to build a bare minimum gaming machine

"the best game to determine power of rigs" and "the bare minimum" are describing two different computers.

The OP seems to have abandoned their thread. Unless we hear back from the them, there is no telling what answers they were looking for.
 
@Kitty, then you think with a cpu like the 2400 and a better gfx card would be much better? I guess that makes sense, I just thought a better processor would be better for games that have a lot of tthings going on at once like RTS games. I also agree with cliff about the op's need to reply back to tell us what he's really looking for. According to the op's previous comments he seems to be under the impression that the minimum specs for crysis will allow it to run in "full mode"( which i assume to be maxed out settings at op's monitors highest resolution).
 
According to the op's previous comments he seems to be under the impression that the minimum specs for crysis will allow it to run in "full mode"( which i assume to be maxed out settings at op's monitors highest resolution).

Thanks for putting it in the right perspective. I have all along kept crysis full mode as the real benchmark for gaming pc (sorry for living in the caves :( )

So can US$700/800 really do justice if I want to play most of the games (if not all :) ) in the coming 2 or 3 years !

Thanks again for the comments

Shanthi
 
Thanks for putting it in the right perspective. I have all along kept crysis full mode as the real benchmark for gaming pc (sorry for living in the caves :( )

So can US$700/800 really do justice if I want to play most of the games (if not all :) ) in the coming 2 or 3 years !

Thanks again for the comments

Shanthi

Yes my $250 budget pc, built 2 years ago, allows me to play many games today in high/ultra settings at 1920 x 1080p, the only thing I've upgraded since then is the hard drive and ram(both upgraded this month), just imagine what $700/800 could get you, and I think my graphics card(HD 4850) is the only thing keeping my pc up to date with the modern games because my processor is terrible, so don't listen to my earlier suggestion about getting a 2600k with the $800 budget, here is a site I use to compare graphics cards and they give you a suggestion of what to buy in your price range for video cards gpureview I personally think your in the $200-$299 range with a $700/$800.
 
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