In the market for a new comp.

[zumo]

Im looking for a new computer to run Crysis maxed out with no lag/screen tear.

[Xzin]

Umm.... this really isn't this kind of site. I am not sure how multi threaded Crysis is but I have a pretty damn top of the line system and I am not sure I could run it maxed out with full resolution (which I assume to be 2560 x 1600). The fact that Nvidia refuses to create a driver that allows 8800 GTX's to run SLI when you have 3 of them on a single system doesn't help either.

Perhaps try www.tomshardware.com and see what they have to say about things?

If you want to play it with wet dream performance, you are probably looking at the new 45 intel quad cores coming in 1Q 2008 and at the very least a 8800GTX, which is about the fastest gaming card out there right now.

The CPU is going to push $1200+ at release and the 8800GTX is still about $500 each. (Much less than it was at release though). So figure $3000+ for a top of the line system if you build it yourself right now. I would not personally suggest a Dell. If you don't have the know how, Alienware (which is now owned by Dell) is a reasonable bet but you spend far too much for what you get.

[zumo]

I know this site isnt the real place to put this but after reading the posts here for about 6 hours last night I figured I would get some good insight.

P.s Id mutibox wow but doing that is like playing an rts and I suck at that. The only thing I come close to "dual boxing" is having two Guild Wars open with one open just to spam trades in town.(No ah ftl)

With that said thx for the post Xzin.

[Xzin]

No problem. I do refer you here: http://www.tomsgames.com/us/2007/11/20/crysis_sli/ for some benchmarks.

http://i183.photobucket.com/albums/x45/Xzin-WoW/crysis-sli-benches-chart.jpg

You need 30+ FPS at MINIMUM average to consider a game to be lag free. You can PLAY a game at 20 FPS but it starts to get choppy. 10 is unplayable.

And apparently, 1680x1050is the max resolution.

Which..... is underwhelming given everything. Not that it would be playable maxxed with todays hardware anyway.

[zumo]

Well thx for the links. From what I have read it would seem the game will only be maxxable once new hardware is made for the game. Im starting to think some games are made just to push comp specs up.

[fling]

Your friends don't know much about computers :roll:

Are you looking to put it together yourself, or buy one premade? Some of the better multiboxing-on-one-pc rigs on this site are going to be good for Crysis, with the exceptions that you will want to run SLI video cards as stated above.

Something along the lines of:
Higher-end Core 2 Duo / Core 2 Quad processor with some serious cooling so you can overclock the crap out of it.
3-4gigs DDR2 800 or faster ram
2x hard drives in a RAID0 config, preferibly 10,000 RPM drives
2x Nvidia 8800GT video cards in SLI
A monitor that uses a DVI or HDMI connector. Most everything decent does these days, and it makes a noticeable difference in picture clarity.

If you buy a pre-built system from a major manufacturer, most of them come with a bunch of pre-installed BS software that will slow the system down by as much as 50% (No I am not kidding), so if you take that route, you may want to see if there is a way to get a clean install of your OS, (OS, drivers, no crap), or at least uninstall the crap that comes with the machine.