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Hi everybody, first post here and it has been a few years since I have been real good with the PC scene, my rig was so outdated that I couldn't run any of the new games so I abandoned my beloved PC for the 360 for quite some time. I am looking to change that very soon.

My question is simple.

What specs are required to run Crysis on its highest settings on a pretty decent widescreen resolution for preferably around $1000? (I know this may not even be possible, but I have heard the prices have gone down drastically,so i'm prayin)

Any advice would be GREATLY appreciated as I am a bit lost in all the new dual cores and SLI's and all of this. I was good for anything hardware PC related back when the Radeon 9800XT was the top of the line. So it's been a while.

Short and simple if you do not want to read the above

Hardware that could run Crysis on max settings, 1680x1050 (or so), w/ 4x AA and 8x AF. I'm planning on building it myself but am a bit lost at the moment. Any advice, much appreciated. Go! Thanks in advance.

I think I probably posted in the wrong section, here is the same post under homemade PC's - http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/ [...] igh-advice

You can delete post if it is in wrong section since there are two now

Message edited by Jamrock on 11-16-2009 at 07:25:41 AM

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In a nutshell, you can't.

Because Crysis is so badly written and the Crytek engine is so complex you literally have to throw everything you can at it to be sure you can just crank the sliders to maximum.

The best thing to do really is build the best system you can for your budget and then balance Crysis's settings accordingly, but you're still not going to get anything graphically monstrous for $1,000.

There's plenty of stickies around these forums to offer advice on specs and home-builds so you should be able to squeeze the most out of your budget.

Alternatively, and don't take this as a snide comment, but try playing a better game: building an insane rig purely for one game is a bit over-the-top (unless you're an extreme gamer with money to burn), especially given that game of choice isn't even very good.

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An ati 4850 or 9800GT will do the job if it is doesn't overheat, also having a fast cpu help a lot which then requires a good mb and at least a 650W psu.

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Go nvidia with graphics if you're after crysis framerates, it runs much better on their architecture.

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