Thanks for the link to the website, was very helpful to compare some video-cards and even cpu's.
Hehehe, I know it a hard task, rather, almost impossible.. And are not American, but unfortunately I live in Europe (Italy)
So you'd spend more than $300 for playing Cities Skylines? although I LOVE this game I can't..
rmjohnson144, thanks for the help and links. But I live in Italy, and internetional shipping it's not available
Before giving up a last attempt: I have find a PC for €400 ( $380 USD ) with this specs:
CPU:
Intel Celeron G1620 2,50 GHz, Turbo Core Boost: 1050MHz, 55 Watt
Is not very powerful, but it is better than the previous cpu, if not mistaken..
GPU:
MSI N750-2GD5/OC - MSI GeForce GTX 750 2GB
Also this seems to be better than the previous gaphic-card..
Compare: http://gpuboss.com/gpus/MSI-GeForce-GTX-750-vs-GeForce-GTX-650( the website not found the graphic-card with 2GB, but only 1GB.. )
MD:
ASRock H61M-VG4, 16384 MB, DDR3-SDRAM
Unfortunately, the motherboard does not seem be good..
RAM:
G.Skill 8GB DDR3-1333, 240 Pin, 1333MHz, 1,5 Volt
Awesome!
HDD:
WD WD5000AAKX 500GB, SATA III 6 Gbit/s, 7200rpm 16 MB
Mh, good.
CPU COOLER:
INTEL Stock Cooler
PSU:
ATX MS-TECH MS-N450-SYS, 450 Watt / 230 Volt 50Hz 5A
What you think?
I think ( it's not true, I hope only ) of able to start the game on medium-high with anti-aliasing while maintaining those settings even with large cities.
Now I have an iMac 21,5 mid-2011, Bootcamp Partition with Windows 7 64-bit and are able to play with the low-medium settings ( with 1920x1080 screen resolution ) with 3 tiles filled ( a few lag ) with an AMD Radeon 6600M and 6700M Series
Say hello to all, great community!