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wrxdrunkie

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So guys, I am thinking of buying some new parts for my PC. The whole purpose of my rig, when I bought it, was to run crysis maxxed out. Needless to say, that didnt happen, I am talking I wanted anti-aliasing, 1080p, very high everything. Well lets just say I had a rude awakening, Its playable at 1080p, very high, no anti, but barley, talking 25fps prolly with drops. I originally bought this setup thinking I could SLi if I could not run crysis, well my roomate with the EXACT same computer did SLi, and you gussed it, still can not max it out with, had to run with no AA. So i held off on SLi.

So its been almost a year, has technology advanced enough to run crysis or warhead maxxed out, high res, lots of AA? If not I will just wait to upgrade, but if the technology has come around, I would like to enjoy it.

My current setup

-q6600 2.4ghz (stock clock) suck at OC, so does my board, so ya.
-Asus p5n32-e SLI MB
-OCZ ddr2 4gb pc6400 (2x2gb) 800mhz
-Coolermaster 750w sli ready power supply
- evga 512mb 8800gts (g92)

so, if the technology is there, and not ridiculously expensive, what would I need to upgrade? GPU (obviously), cpu?? ram?? Power Supply?

thanks guys :)
 
You bout the wrong cpu, should of got a e8400 as 2 cores preform better in games that quad.
Upgrade you GPU to a 4870 ( what res u playing at)
 
Your gpu is what you will need to upgrade to max out crysis and even having said that it maybe not be possible. Your at a pretty high res. The Q6600 at only 2.4Ghz is a bit on the not-quite-good-enough either side. Its a shame you cannot get at least 3Ghz out of her.
So back to the gpu. We probably should get your definition of maxed out as well. If you are looking for max details and 60fps average that's a tall order without getting ridiculously expensive as you mentioned.
Regarding your roomies rig, how much benefit did he gain with the second 8800GT? Because a 8800GT SLi set up tend to best a single GTX280. If that's still not enough for you, then you really have to open the wallet and the Q6600 at stock will not be enough
 
For Crysis and with your system in mind, all you need is a GPU upgrade. As for playing Crysis at 1920x1200 with AA and in DX10, it is possible with GTX260 SLI, GTX280 SLI and a HD4870X2.
 
Danny Bui said:
For Crysis and with your system in mind, all you need is a GPU upgrade. As for playing Crysis at 1920x1200 with AA and in DX10, it is possible with GTX260 SLI, GTX280 SLI and a HD4870X2.
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Now we'll need his definition of ridiculously expensive. A pair of 260's are only $400 though I suppose
 
I consider maxxed out 1920x1080 resolution, everything on very high, 4-8x AA, 30FPS would be fine as long as it is ROCK solid, but 40-50fps solid is obviously better. I might be able to higher someone to overclock it or swap out the cpu. The benefit he got from the second card was basicially better framerates maxed out, still not rock solid, and no AA. my honest maximum is probably 650 or 700 for this upgrade, because I know it will be a matter of time, and everything will be a lot cheaper.


ridiculously expensive as in someone suggesting tri sli or something that costs 2,3,4,5 thousand dollars, since I was so vague about, "maxxed out crysis being possible at 1080p"
 
Danny Bui said:
For Crysis and with your system in mind, all you need is a GPU upgrade. As for playing Crysis at 1920x1200 with AA and in DX10, it is possible with GTX260 SLI, GTX280 SLI and a HD4870X2.
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What about the cpu? Q6600 stock clock have problems running crysis?
 
you will pay someone to overclock? OCing is one the easiest things I have learned to do on a PC
 
Danny Bui said:
For Crysis and with your system in mind, all you need is a GPU upgrade. As for playing Crysis at 1920x1200 with AA and in DX10, it is possible with GTX260 SLI, GTX280 SLI and a HD4870X2.
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QFT. If it wasn't for your mobo, I woulda given 48xx CF recommendations. But Danny's post is the best so far.
 
Rydawg5143 said:
you will pay someone to overclock? OCing is one the easiest things I have learned to do on a PC
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If the price was reasonable, I understand it is supposed to be easy, I just was not able to make it work, and dont wanna ruin my equipment.
 
Alai said:
QFT. If it wasn't for your mobo, I woulda given 48xx CF recommendations. But Danny's post is the best so far.
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Thanks for the help! now all I need to do is research these cards see what's best (haven't stayed on top of it since I got my rig built)

so you and Dan both agree that my cpu would not be a problem?


Thanks again,
Matt
 
wrxdrunkie said:
my honest maximum is probably 650 or 700 for this upgrade
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If you play the MIR game you can get a GTX280 now for about $350AR so two would be right at the top of your pricepoint. You could save a lot of money and go with either a 4870x2 or 2 GTX260's, even the 216 core's are $100 or so less each than your GTX280's.

Also I want to return to the OC idea. Are you completely unable to extract even a few extra Mhz out of the Q6600. I know you said above you suck at OC and blamed the mobo too but exactly what has your experience been with OCing that cpu on that board?
 
GonzoP said:
If you play the MIR game you can get a GTX280 now for about $350AR so two would be right at the top of your pricepoint. You could save a lot of money and go with either a 4870x2 or 2 GTX260's, even the 216 core's are $100 or so less each than your GTX280's.

Also I want to return to the OC idea. Are you completely unable to extract even a few extra Mhz out of the Q6600. I know you said above you suck at OC and blamed the mobo too but exactly what has your experience been with OCing that cpu on that board?
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Well it was about a year ago, and not the freshest in my mind, the "Auto overclock" the board comes with used to be able to do 2.8 ghz just fine it wont go over 10% overclock using the boards bios (yes I know auto overclock is not recommended so I turned it off)


I manually overclocked as well, but ran into problems that scared me enough to stop. It really didnt want to turn on. I think, I stress think because I am by no means an expert, my biggest problem is with the RAM timings, unlinked/linked etc 2t etc. plus I dont have very good starting numbers not to many people cover good baseline numbers to start at.


edit: Just dug up what was going wrong from an old post


old post:

When I try to get the 3.0 ghz I can't, my temps are fine, never above 45, I can get the system booted up, and it seems to be stable, but it will just freeze, the temps are fine, it will just freeze after 10 minutes or so, I know this chip should not have a problem doing this, my first though is the ram, but idk where to start making adjustments, maybe cpu voltage, idk, what to look at from a freeze after 10 minutes. Here is my settings for my OC.

vcore- 1.31875
vdimm- 2.13, 2.175
1.2ht- 1.3v
nbcore- 1.35v
cpu vtt- 1.35v
sbcore- auto/1.5
ram - unlinked 1334 667
ram timings- tried auto, tried 5-5-4-15, tried 4,4,4,8,2t, tried 6,7,7,21,2t
 
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