Crysis?

which is the best combination for crysis? (for all parts, not graphic and displays only!!)

There is no certain combination for Crysis.
But there ARE several parts that will play it without a problem.
I assume that you want to game on ultra high settings, but what resolution are you planning on playing at?

Crysis is a joke. If your building a system around Crysis, you should see a psychiatrist.

If you build a rig for the one of the most hardware intensive game, then you will be able to play almost anything else.

quad coore, crossfire/sli, lot's of ram, nice monitor.

dude how the hell do you have you 260 oc to 730 i have sli 285 and i cant get mine to oc above 700 i have tried with nvidia software and rivatuner and to be exact my top speed it 700 my temp does not go above 63 just very unstable above 700

well the fact that the 285 starts off with a faster clock i understand that some cards do overclock better than others i just find it hard to believe a 260 can oc over a oc 285 the most you can get a 285 is like 750 i have not been able to do it thats why i was asking how you did it so i can do it myself

not really i cant get 700 he claims to get 730

maybe he meant to say 630

Precisely. Most people fail to realize this.

Okay, here's one. You didn't give a budget, but anyway.

i7 920.
Gigabyte EX58-UD3R-SLI (cheapest X58) otherwise Asus P6T
3 or 6 GB DDR3 1333/1600
Hard Drive- whatever you want. Velociraptor/SSD if you can afford.
GTX260 SLI/ GTX 295 (again cost is the deciding factor)
Antec 900
Corsair TX750
Any 24" monitor (if you're interested in Nvidia 3Dvision, get what they give you. Its a 22" Samsung 120Hz)

+1 for the above post again. Anyway, a 30MHz difference is not that much practically. You can say this is 700 and that is 730, but when you play, it might be just a 1-2 fps difference.

Why people use 16xAA(1920X1080) in crysis, is much better to have 4xAA and avg 50fps instead or 30fps.
I have similar system with you (q6600@3.2GHz GTX295) and I run crysis @ 1680X1050 8xAA ultra high setting avg53fps, max71, min35fps.

i am aware of that i just thought evga tuner was just for evga cards the only way i have found to up the voltage on the 285 is the evga volt tuner but unfortunatly i have bfg

Does EVGA tuner work on ATI cards? Is there some program like that for ATI cards? Mine runs at 67C max, so I have about 15C to spare.

You can use ati tool or rivatuner, but i would suggest just use the overclocking feature in the ati catalyst which works great.

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You can even go 285 SLI if you want. I'd say 1000W is more than necessary. 850 should be fine. And I don't think 300GB should be enough. So get a 1 TB barracuda.

just about every configuration sucks on crysis that is mainstream...

lets see... 2 4870x2's work good and 3 GTX 285s work excelent!
quad cores offer minimal performance increase for crysis btw.

Possibly a little off topic, but seeing as this is in the graphics section...

How well can I expect Crysis to run on a Geforce 9400/9500 or 9800? I know it won't be fantastic, but I'm putting together an inexpensive midrange system and I'd like to get something it can stretch its legs on that's a bit newer than Oblivion (which oddly enough runs great on my ancient minimum-specs system...) and Crysis looked great on the machines at CES last year.

Ask me and I say its is NOT worth the performance sacrifice just for AA. Run it at Very High and native resolution unless you have GTX 285 SLI or 4870x2 or GTX295 or something like that.

Oh and how did you make such accurate predictions? 17fps?

Lets just say that 9400GT/9500GT are playable at 1680x1050 no AA Low
9800GT - 1680 x 1050 no AA High
GTX285 1680x1050 4xAA Very High

24fps may not be playable to you, but it is to me. Guess I have better eyes. And about the AA. It was just a general statement. Not based on your previous thread.

Well ati tool i believe is only for overclocking not voltage change and rivatuner im not to sure since i have never used it myself but i hear people using it to overclock/volt change. Im really new into voltage changing so im kinda limited on that. You might want to start a new thread people familiar with rivatuner can help you more. Evga voltage tuner should work what nvidia drivers do you have installed?

Like I said, that is from your pov. I get 24fps on the Crysis GPU benchmark and it is perfectly playable in the first level, Contact. However I still run settings to get 40 fps avg. PS. The zero gravity levels result in lower fps than normal ones due to increased physics calculations.

welll, when i run stalker clear sky with EVERYTHING on high, it dips down all the way to 12fps but the environment is GOREGEOUS! look at those sun rays...
(totally off topic but oh well lol)

This numbers are not random 100fps is the average that means that if you have 100fps average you will have 60fps minimum, and yes 2 GTX295s can get 80fps very high settings(and if you lower the setting you will get 100fps avg)

These are facts and I don’t care if you agree or not
35fps avg to be just playable.
50-60fps avg to be enjoyable.
100+ fps avg for perfect experience.

These aren't facts. These are just fps numbers you think are good for playing Crysis...numbers that you've probably never even tested.

RAID a couple of OCZ Vertex drives or Intel X25s.

If you are playing on Very High mode, with the large textures being streamed in real time, you need very high random and sequential read performance.

Even though my system (i7 920 @ 3.8GHz, SLI 285 SSC) was running in the 50s-60s fps at Very High 1920, the game stuttered every few moments while in movement. Basically it was a disc I/O bottleneck. RAID X25-Es solved the problem, now the game is buttery smooth.