I know every individual who posts, reads, and comments on these forums would love to have the next biggest, best, and most kick A** card on the market. But seriously, if you have any card in the 8800 series, is there really a serious need to upgrade to anything in the 9600/9800 series? If we exempt Crysis from the mix, is there any real need to get a 9800 GX2, GTX, etc??? The benchmarks for Crysis from individual to individual will differ with cpu, video card, power supplies, fans, cases, cooling pastes, motherboards, hard drives, water cooling/air cooling. What is 3-10 FPS in the real world seriously?!?
I hope this isn't turning into a rant, too late, but why are we judging everything by a single game? Fantastic looking as it may be, it is ONE GAME. It could have been coded better, and I'm sure more graphically impressive games will come shortly, though hopefully not as horribly coded as Crysis (still love you CryTek, and UBISoft, please design Far Cry 2 better). It just seems to me that Crysis is becoming 3dmark 08. OOOOOOH, I got a score of 18000, that totally kicks your a** at 15000. Is anyone really enjoying the graphics IN-GAME?!? The game lasts like 5 freaking hours if you don't detour at all!
I know we're all here because we like to talk about the real hardware/software issues at hand, but it seems like Crysis has really tipped the scales and made everything get a little out of hand. I guess it all comes down to some serious new benchmarks by toms for 2008, I think we all miss them.
I hope this isn't turning into a rant, too late, but why are we judging everything by a single game? Fantastic looking as it may be, it is ONE GAME. It could have been coded better, and I'm sure more graphically impressive games will come shortly, though hopefully not as horribly coded as Crysis (still love you CryTek, and UBISoft, please design Far Cry 2 better). It just seems to me that Crysis is becoming 3dmark 08. OOOOOOH, I got a score of 18000, that totally kicks your a** at 15000. Is anyone really enjoying the graphics IN-GAME?!? The game lasts like 5 freaking hours if you don't detour at all!
I know we're all here because we like to talk about the real hardware/software issues at hand, but it seems like Crysis has really tipped the scales and made everything get a little out of hand. I guess it all comes down to some serious new benchmarks by toms for 2008, I think we all miss them.