Electronic Art's Crysis Warhead-ready PC -- called the "Warhead PC" by the team who specced it -- has been officially priced at $699 and will come in a single SKU. 

EA, Crytek, Nvidia, and system builder UltraPC all had a hand in the project, and while Crytek had the idea to simply offer the PC's specs to EA as a recommended requirement, plans changed with Nvidia's involvement.

Crysis franchise producer Bernd Diemer explains the team's mentality:

"When we started working on Warhead, we decided performance was a big issue.  “So 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.’ We built that PC—Crytek in the Budapest office [where Warhead was developed]—and we put it in the middle of the studio, and every review was on that machine. All the milestone presentations we did for EA, for the Yerlies [founding brothers Cevat, Avni, and Faruk], for the team, all the new prototypes, we showed on that machine."

A Crysis-themed desktop will be preloaded, and all fingers point to a more conservative external appearance (though that may change).  The machine's specs are as follows:

• CPU: Intel Core Duo e7300 (@2.66GHz)
• Video card: Nvidia 9800GT
• RAM: 2GB

"EA’s not getting into the hardware business, and Crytek isn’t either," Diemer added.  "The biggest thing for us is convenience.  We want to make PC gaming convenient."

The Warhead-PC is scheduled for launch the same time as Crysis Warhead on September 16.