Running Crysis on the following. Thoughts?

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blade12

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Hey, I had a performance question. I just today ordered a 8800GT 512mb and was wondering if anybody runs their games on a similar specs pc. I couldn't find any benchmarks with crysis being played on a single core with 8800GT but anyways, here's my specs.

-8800GT 512mb,
-1024mb ram running at PC3200 speeds w/ timings of 3-3-3-8 running on 2T cr(anybody thinking changing it to 1T would help??)
-Opteron 144 running at 2.2 Ghz(single core) on Epox 9npa+ Ultra(I might be able to overclock it to 2.5 ghz on stock HSF if you guys think that will help.)

Any suggestions on anything? I really don't want to buy a new cpu just yet because I just ordered the 8800gt.. I do plan on getting FX-55 or opteron 175 later on tho(I am not sure if any other dual cores cpus are supported by 9npa ultra. Maybe somebody else knows??)

P.S. I will also be using a resolution of 1280x1024 at 60/75 Hz. Nothing higher than that because my monitor doesn't support anything higher.. I know 8800GT is good enough for that resolution. I may still overclock it a little bit depending on temps. Thanks.
 
A suggestion? Definitely time for you to upgrade to a dual-core processor. I didn't even know there were many boards out there running single core+pci-e.

Your video card is getting bottlenecked bigtime by your cpu & ram. Not to mention that Crysis plays much better on a 64bit system (dual-core + vista or xp x64).

Start savin' them pennies! Time for an upgrade!
 
well your cpu and 1gb ram will hold your 8800gt back. if you could find a x2 cheap i would get it and overclock it. but if you cant find one cheap i would just hold off till a cpu mb ram upgrade.
 
tricky0502 said:
well your cpu and 1gb ram will hold your 8800gt back. if you could find a x2 cheap i would get it and overclock it. but if you cant find one cheap i would just hold off till a cpu mb ram upgrade.
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You think Opteron 175 will help back up the 8800GT for the next couple years? Both are dual-core but Opty 175 is better than a lot of the x2 cpus and much cheaper way out for now than upgrading cpu/mobo/ram all at once.

I just wonder what kind of settings will Crysis run at. Hopefully, I will be able to at least use medium settings. Thanks for the quick responses btw.
 
deviantek said:
A suggestion? Definitely time for you to upgrade to a dual-core processor. I didn't even know there were many boards out there running single core+pci-e.

Your video card is getting bottlenecked bigtime by your cpu & ram. Not to mention that Crysis plays much better on a 64bit system (dual-core + vista or xp x64).

Start savin' them pennies! Time for an upgrade!
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Could you please back that up with some links / benchmarks?

I think the upgrade to 8800GT will yield a substantial improvement, while the increase to be gained by replacing the CPU would be a lot smaller, and particularly so regarding switching to a 64bit OS. I was using XP64 and got tired of the incompatibility headaches so I switched to plain old XP Pro (32 bit). I certainly wouldn't recommend Vista, though, as long as you have 2GB of RAM the performance decrease going to Vista shouldn't be too dramatic.

edit: I see while I was typing someone did post a link...
matadorluis said:
check this link testing crysis with single, dual and quad cores. Also with many low performance gfx:

http://www.amdzone.com/amdzone/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=8505

you can see going for single to dual core at the same speed almost double the performance
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In the review they state "50 percent increase" not double, and that is with a 7900. I couldn't find in the review what the effect of going from one to two cores would be on an 8800... 50% is remarkable though, and much larger than I expected.
 
gibber said:
Could you please back that up with some links / benchmarks?

I think the upgrade to 8800GT will yield a substantial improvement, while the increase to be gained by replacing the CPU would be a lot smaller, and particularly so regarding switching to a 64bit OS. I was using XP64 and got tired of the incompatibility headaches so I switched to plain old XP Pro (32 bit). I certainly wouldn't recommend Vista, though, as long as you have 2GB of RAM the performance decrease going to Vista shouldn't be too dramatic.
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I'm at work as write this and won't be able to dig up the links out there. If you do a quick google search on "Crysis 64 vs 32" you'll soon find out that Crysis was built on x64 bit architecture and takes advantage of it.

A mention of the 175 dual-core opty was made... get it. Definitely a worthy upgrade (and OC it!!!). If you can, move to at least 2 gigs of DDR.

Also note: Run Crysis in DX9 (with manual tweaking you can run crysis at very high in dx9 settings). 15-20% FPS gains with just about the same quality as DX10.
 
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