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The 900$ Crysis Hardware Experiment by Crytek
From: http://www.incrysis.com/forums/viewtopic.php?id=18017
"The Videos
As you’ll see from the 8 minutes of video we recorded, Crysis looks absolute fabulous on High settings with this configuration and runs very smoothly on a 1280x720 resolution. They show different locations from the Crysis Singleplayer Campaign with everything set to High.
- Download – Video 1 (inCrysis mirror)
- Download – Video 2 (inCrysis mirror)
- Download – Video 3 (inCrysis mirror)
- Download – Video 4 (inCrysis mirror)
The Configuration
Below you find a rough list of parts we purchased so you can see and check for yourself about the total costs of such a high-end computer. The prices may vary from country to country, but overall the costs should be within the same range (shipping included).
CPU Intel Core2Duo E6750
GPU GeForce 8800GT 512MB
Motherboard NVIDIA nForce 650i Socket 775
PSU 600W ATX12V
RAM 2GB (2 x 1GB) 240-Pin DDR2 800 (PC2 6400) Dual Channel Kit
HDD SATA 250GB 7200RPM
DVD 20x DVD±R Burner
Case ATX Midi Tower Computer Case
OS Microsoft Windows XP Home with SP2
The Message
With this experiment we have shown that Crysis runs smoothly and provides and amazing, unparalleled performance on High settings and on an affordable machine that is readily available today ... "
Does anyone have a similar setup and can run Crysis at 1280x720 resolution with high settings?
Comments
I have pretty much the same setup except
CPU: Intel Q6600
RAM: 4GB DDR2 800
GPU: 8800GTS 320MB
OS: Vista 64bit
Took around $1000 to build since I bought each part when they were on sale. Runs Crysis great at 1920x1200 resolutions on a mix of high/medium settings with no AA.
Thank you. I guess i will need an 8800 then. And what about your motherboard? Is it NVidia? I am building a new pc and i just want to make sure that i will have good perfomance without spending more than 1000.
Thank you. I guess i will need an 8800 then. And what about your motherboard? Is it NVidia? I am building a new pc and i just want to make sure that i will have good perfomance without spending more than 1000.
Buy the 8800GT, and not the 8800GTS
Better performance for less money... Yeah I know it sounds weird.
Futilez - Mature MMORPG Community
Correcting people since birth.
I played it with maxed setting no AA and 1680*1050 resolution with following stuff.
OS: Vista U 32bit
RAM: 4gb DDR2-PC6400
CPU: Intel Core 2 Quad Q6600 @ 3200gHz
Video: Asus ATI2900XT 512 RAM
MB Chipset: P35
Must say it ran quite smoothly with occasional but very very rare small hiccups.
Most of the time fps was above 30.
Thank you. I guess i will need an 8800 then. And what about your motherboard? Is it NVidia? I am building a new pc and i just want to make sure that i will have good perfomance without spending more than 1000.
I'm using a ABIT IP35 Pro. If you ever want to use SLI you need to get a motherboard with nforce. And get the 8800gt or the 8800gts 512mb. They are faster than the old 8800gts 320mb that I'm using.
Thank you. I guess i will need an 8800 then. And what about your motherboard? Is it NVidia? I am building a new pc and i just want to make sure that i will have good perfomance without spending more than 1000.
Buy the 8800GT, and not the 8800GTS
Better performance for less money... Yeah I know it sounds weird.
Comparing prices i'd say that it sounds weird too. However i don't trust manufacturers much anymore and i will follow your advice since my knowledge about hardware is about 2 generations back. I have an old setup with an Nvidia 7600 (agp) and a hyper thread 3 intel ghz cpu with 2 gigs of 266 mhz ram.
Thank you.
Interesting. I built a machine back in Mid-December but with a little more on the RAM and a litttle less on the power supply/gpu. I got an asus pk5-1024 front side, c2d 2.66, 500G 10KRPM Sata, nvidia 7900GS 256K, 4G 800mhrz low latency crucial ram, and a very unassuming antec case with a 550 ps, and as usual for them, quite a bit of space to move around (yes, my last 2 machines have been thrown into antec's, I would have been more flashy this time if their ps's weren't so damn stable). So far, I have only, really pushed the hardware with Bioshock (it performed above expectation, except when alt-tabbing). The selling point on the video card was price, it was *really* cheap when I bought it and had great reviews two months prior...Probably the cheapest part of my machine minus the dual layer dvd burner (oh so cheap). The totality of it all was around $800US. My monitor is a simple dell 21 ws.
If anyone has used the 86-88 cards, do you think it is worth the upgrade from the 79gs?
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exactly what I bought, which shows I did my preice/performance reasearch perfect. except I got a 8800 gts 512mb. because...
1. there was no stock of the GT at the time
2. the gts performs better.
3. the GTS has better quiter cooler.
4. because of 3 the GTS can be overclocked like mad whereas the GT can't
So if your willing to spend a little extra, get a GTS imo.
My blog:
WARNING - it must be the G92 (core) GTS otherwise the GT is better. GET it GTS G92. Good the card is almost a GTX .
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nvm...
Futilez - Mature MMORPG Community
Correcting people since birth.
WARNING - it must be the G92 (core) GTS otherwise the GT is better. GET it GTS G92. Good the card is almost a GTX .
True alot of people just get confused if you say g92 tho. best advice is to GET THE 512MB one. since that is the g92 and the decent one.
My blog:
Thank you. I guess i will need an 8800 then. And what about your motherboard? Is it NVidia? I am building a new pc and i just want to make sure that i will have good perfomance without spending more than 1000.
Buy the 8800GT, and not the 8800GTS
Better performance for less money... Yeah I know it sounds weird.
Thank you very much! You are right. I got an 8800 gt (Point of view Brand) and at last my newborn PC feels like an XBOX. However when i play crysis and everything is set to high the very high settings are disabled.
Why?
The game behaves very smoothly and i am sure that it can handle very high settings but i can't choose them!
I got a new mobo, a new CPU and i reinstalled windows XP with SP2. Where did i go wrong?
Thank you. I guess i will need an 8800 then. And what about your motherboard? Is it NVidia? I am building a new pc and i just want to make sure that i will have good perfomance without spending more than 1000.
Buy the 8800GT, and not the 8800GTS
Better performance for less money... Yeah I know it sounds weird.
Thank you very much! You are right. I got an 8800 gt (Point of view Brand) and at last my newborn PC feels like an XBOX. However when i play crysis and everything is set to high the very high settings are disabled.
Why?
The game behaves very smoothly and i am sure that it can handle very high settings but i can't choose them!
I got a new mobo, a new CPU and i reinstalled windows XP with SP2. Where did i go wrong?
don't like to re-post but the new GTS g92 is far superior to the GT. Just making sure others realize this.
"Society in every state is a blessing, but government even in its best state is but a necessary evil; in its worst state an intolerable one ..." - Thomas Paine