Will I be able to play Metro 2033 @ Max

u'll be able to run the games...but u wont have the max setting with high frame rate the reason is ur cpu having dual core to run phyzx in batman will be hard enough for ur gpu...ati wont let u to max ur phyzx setting unless u tweak it to ur cpu" so here is the problem",.... ur card good on DX11, metro will run kinda 5~20 fps on max, u need a quad core processor if u dont want to overclock ur cpu.

test the game and let me know..
i have quad core and a gtx470 card...and the fps wont go further than 35fps :S....

What resolution will you be playing at?

I think Metro 2033 is one of those game that brings a card to it's knees. Based on benchmaks I've seen, you cannot expect more than maybe 35FPS at 1680x1050 and 25FPS on 1920x1200; expect something in-between for 1080p screens (1920x1080).

Also, as blackhamachi mentioned, PhysX would just be too taxing on a dual-core CPU (pretty much any CPU if you ask me) to be enabled with non-nvidia cards. Batman still looks nice and is fun to play without PhysX BTW  

Well since he probably wont be using physX. The thing is.. Metro 2033 only uses 2 cores. for example Phenom II x2 555 @ 3.4ghz gave the same fps than Phenom II x4 955 @ 3.4ghz.
(With the same GPU and RAM of course)

I dont care about PhysX...
My resolution is 1280x1024...
I dont think games still use cores effctvly nd I have seen people having more trouble with 4 or more cores in games, they ahve to force the game to use 2 cores sometimes.
This CPU hsnt bttlnckd my games in any games till date. Still smooth and brutal.
I ll post yu the results   in a day or two.

Why would anyone need to force a quad core to use 2 cores? If the game is written for only 2 cores then thats all it will use.
If your quad core hasnt been forced to use 2 cores in a game then what cores is it using?  

Metro 2033 is the most graphically taxing game currently available, far harder on your GPU than any other game including Crysis, rigs with triple SLI or quad crossfire can not max this game out and run it smoothly, to be fair you will only be able to run it in medium settings even at 1280x1024

recommended is an i7. and thats official.

and no its not most taxing most on GPUs, higher CPU is needed, u dont need an extreme gpu but u do need an extreme CPU, its the most CPU demanding game ever.

Based on Legion Hardware's Metro 2033 Performance Guide, the game is GPU limited, not CPU limited. Not only did they discover the game gave no discernible performance gain going from dual to quad core (using Phenom II X2 and X4), but also no significant gain going from 2Ghz to 3.6GHz (on both Intel and AMD CPUs).

Yep. What i said earlier   Seems like the game only uses 2 cores.

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I have played the game in DX 10 it looked the same ..

Just like Crysis with DX10, I'm sure Metro 203 DX11 doesn't add much to most user except, perhaps a 25%+ performance drop. Future games will be much more representative as developers master the DX11 API.

@ Zenthar you are right it doesnt add anything or any noticeable eye-candy thing only the Blur was there which actually took away the sharpness of things.
With DX 10 its still looks the same and good.
As some of the videos tells it DX 11 should provide 35 % more FPS boosts but I found it to be the opposite - 35 % eh.

DX----just another marketing strategy..new OS new DX eh