PCIe Scaling: Crysis
Experience tells us that Crysis is usually GPU-limited, and it appears that bandwidth limits are far less of a problem as resolution is increased.
The x4 slot suffers a 9% performance handicap at 1680x1050, while the x8 slot allows the GPU to reach 98% of its performance potential. That is to say, the mid-sized slot looks like an acceptable option for Crysis.
You spend unnecessary $$$ on a x58 platform while I save money that I can put towards a GPU upgrade with my p55 platform :)
anyone know if 4850's are going to be unavailable any time soon? You could get the 3000 series for quite awhile after the 4000's released so I'm crossing my fingers until i can afford a cpu upgrade and another 4850
cpu is currently a 7750BE and so im pretty sure it would bottleneck the 4850's. I think it does with just one actually.
It's not the game's fault. The GPU can only go as fast as it was made to go. So in simple terms you could say that GPUs these days aren't "fast" enough to use all the bandwidth PCI Express offers.
On a card for card basis they are still quite a bit more powerful than the GTX 480 and should require the most bandwidth of any current card for maximum performance.