Good deal guys.. Just remember this thing does not play crysis.. Its strictly a Wow machine. Anything cpu intensive will choke.
Though for this price, it's still pretty amazing.
balderdash. i have an r1 and it plays crysis fine on medium settings. in fact it plays most games fine, newer games usually on medium settings. the only game i've come across that is just not playable even at lowest settings is battlefield bc2.
what have i played on it?
crysis warhead
dragon age
mass effect
empire: total war
the witcher
lotro
company of heroes
day of defeat: source
portal
basically there's nothing else in this class that performs like this, excepting of course the r2.
just two things to be aware of:
1. stable overclock to 1.73 GHz is not guaranteed. there's a bios option to enable or disable and that's it - no fsb or voltage control.
2. hinges. not the best. for some people, a big problem.