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Benchmark Results: Crysis

Crysis’ love of SLI has waxed and waned through the years, and today it shows a remarkable preference for Nvidia hardware. At least, that’s how things look at moderately-high settings.

While the original build leads overall through Crysis’ Very High settings, it falls behind the CrossFire alternative at 2560x1600. That’s about the same number of pixels one finds in a set of three 1280x1024 displays using Eyefinity or Surround Mode.

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Thomas Soderstrom is a Senior Staff Editor at Tom's Hardware US. He tests and reviews cases, cooling, memory and motherboards.

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46 Comments Comment from the forums

dogman_1234

Can't Wait untill Bulldozer and Sandy Brodge Editions come out. I know it sounds cliche but...
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Tamz_msc

This is probably the best way of spending 2000$ for a PC.
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hardcore_gamer

Performance / watt of this build is really impressive.
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A price table for the new build would be nice too, so i can see how much would it cost when i remove the BD and Case.
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gti88

Tamz_mscThis is probably the best way of spending 2000$ for a PC.I don't think so, considering that cheaper and less power-hungry Sandy Bridge is coming.
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scook9

gti88I don't think so, considering that cheaper and less power-hungry Sandy Bridge is coming.You forgot weaker ;)
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scrumworks

Decent review but it seems that in nvidia setups, even the same CPUs can somehow overclock better. And the speed of RAM has negligible or no effect on overall system performance so no point tuning that component.
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Luay

"Familiarity in overclocking and a third PCIe x16 graphics card slot that operates in x8 mode when occupied are two reasons why we chose the X58A-UD3R over the similarly-priced Asus Sabertooth X58."

Ok, fine. Wouldn't hurt to familiarize anew with a better board and that 3rd slot wasn't used anyways. Megahalems over Noctua? Seasonic over Corsair AX? :(

Or was it last minute budget cuts to make it less than $2000?
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nerrawg

scrumworksDecent review but it seems that in nvidia setups, even the same CPUs can somehow overclock better. And the speed of RAM has negligible or no effect on overall system performance so no point tuning that component.
What do you mean, this was the same model processor but not the same one. They got a new one for this build - so how does that show that the graphics have anything to do with the overclock? If anything it says exactly what is stated in the article, that the overclockability of the i7 950 varies between each sample quite a margin.

NVidia or for that matter AMD graphics have no effect on the CPU overclock.

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-Fran-

How does a Core i5 @~4.3Ghz or a Phenom II X6 @~4Ghz stack up against the Core i7? Well, that's using the same other components, 'cept RAM and MoBo :P

I'd like to know that.

Cheers!
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Benchmark Results: Crysis

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