Tek-Almighty

Ummm... I wish I lived in whatever neverland you are from... Check the benchmark thread, because I've never seen a single 8800 able to run at very high at that res with those frames. Pretty good, I'd say. You ever run the official benchmark for crysis at those settings and resolution? Try it some time and post up. I have a core 2 duo E8400 (3.0 ghz), 4 GB ddr2, and two 8800 gt (overclocked) in sli and I can barely eek out 45 fps at high settings at 1680 x 1050. My performance with the Nvidia threaded optimization is no better when set to "on" and the image looks worse IMO. ftw...

Change ram timings or voltage at all? What were your clock and fsb settings to get 3.4? thanks btw...that is pretty good... do me a solid and run the crysis cpu, cpu2, and gpu at that OC and post up. kthnx

Hmmm...don't even know what that is...but it was on "auto" I will place it "on" and see if improves. I do find it odd that crysis (both games) tends to use one core more than the other... NOT only that, but it uses a huge amount of memory (1.7GB).

Well, I was excited when I read a review of Crysis:Warhead on IGN the other day. Initially I was not going to buy until a patch or a couple months passed...but I usually trust IGN to be pretty spot on. Well, I got it home and been playing for about 1/2 hour. I knew what to expect (e.g. more great graphics, sandbox game play, adaptability...), but the couple of reviews I've read say "improved graphics" and "improved performance." Well, I have to say that the graphics are phenomenal (can't really tell much difference between it and Crysis, yet)...but The performance...? I have a 3.0 ghz core2duo (wolfdale core), 2 8800GT in SLI (overclocked) and 4 GB of DDR2...On all high settings (as opposed to med or very high) My performance is on par with Crysis... HOWEVER. There are some really really stuttery parts, AND I get a weird pause in the game play (0.5 sec or less) every 30 sec or so... FTW? Like my system is over whelmed or something...like waiting to load or something. If anyone gets this game, please post up.

I concede. I will revisit this one day when I have time, with a tougher game than Doom 3. I'm not saying that you're not right...I'm just saying I know what I saw...one time.

I hate to even post this...but I cried watching this video. As a soon to be father, and the son of a wonderful dad, I thought "what it takes to be this dedicated and loyal!" I have a friend, a brother really, whose family I was raised with... His brother, Brian, was severely disabled, autistic. He never was able to speak, like Rick, but he used sign language. We grew up with Brian, and sweet kid, 4 years younger than us. He was beaten to death in his care home by an aid 3 years ago. It just saddens me that the world really never knows the lives of these people whom we see as so different. Good on you mate for taking care of your son like that...and RIP Brian.

That video...seems... nvmnd. Have fun!...Don't hit the ground too hard. It'll leave a mark.

Mmmm... Al Capone's vault. Warm memories.

Yeah, you prolly prefer Bruce Hornsby and the Range. Sick Canadians. what's a lolcat?

I'm not saying that you don't both have valid points...I"m not saying everything that Cujo said isn't common sense...I know that HDD speed is last in the gaming performance continuum...I'm just saying, I know that (barring aforementioned flukes) I've seen an increase in FPS performance on the same game, same system, using two diff. HDD. I also know that others have tested this and seen similar differences. If HDD performance doesn't make a diff (other than loading times)...then why the fark are millions of high performance gamers buying into the idea and getting raptors and setting up raid 0...? Strictly for the loading times, or because they believe it gives them increased performance? I don't know many people who are willing to pay a 100% price to storage premium for loading times... No, they believe it will give them better performance, gaming and overall. That's why a lot of ppl here are running raid 0 with a pair of raptors...or just running raptors. I didn't claim the increase was stellar...I just said it was possible... http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?art...1746&page=6 there's one. I'll try to find some more.

You using Linux? If so, then that is just flash not having decent Linux support. That video doesn't do anything beyond explain what the scam email does when you try to open a supposed Obama sex video. I know... I was joking...

i used to live in Arlington Heights...right off of wolf road. Used to work at a factory on Touhy (sp...can't remember it was so long ago). god I hate the burbs.

I just watched that youtube vid and my computer crashed!... ftw did you do to me?

I read an entire article...prolly 3 years ago in Maximum PC magazine about this very topic. They were testing FPS rate differences between various drives, raid setups, etc... They were testing loading times (which I already know are influenced by drive speed, cache, yada yada) as well as overall FPS (when graphics power was not and issue-as benches were run at super low res.). They too found increases in FPS for 10k drives. Granted, they were nominal (<5% or so). I'm not saying you don't have a valid point, and lord knows you have scads of experience with computers/hardware/benching/games...I'm just saying. So I've seen it personally, and I know others have tested it. I suppose we'll have to agree to disagree.

Doubt that very much.. HDD speed has everything to do with every performance bench... If it makes games FPS rise slightly...then why not game-like benches (e.g. 3D mark)? I have documentation of this...loaded doom3 on my raptor and on 7200rpm wester digital 250... about 15 fps difference between two drives...same hardware. Never tested again...with that config, but unless it was a one time fluke...I think faster HDD means slight improvement of FPS. Personal experience.

My wife made the same face and screamed like that when I pulled a U-turn across 4 lanes of traffic on Golf road in the burbs. Used to have a sweet, souped-up '95 Impala SS. I put in a 3.73 rear diff. which made breaking the back end loose easy as pie. She was getting us lost on the way to Ikea in Schaumberg, and I was being second-guessed at every turn... Well after she told me to turn left when I knew it was right...the left turn arrow went green and I hit about 4000 rpm through the intersection with the back end of the car, while the front pivoted nicely around the median...smoking the tires the whole way. She didn't talk to me for the next couple a hours.

Well at least the governor of Illinois hasn't stolen 32% of your pension (which you paid for out of each check). I hear Rod throws a hell of a party with my money though. yay!. Teachers are important!

Thank god the american people have enough common sense and education to ignore sensationalist media like this... oh... wait. nevermind.

Hmmm...well according to the online world (pshhh...what do they know?), the Geforce owns the world of crysis... Avg fps (on high, @ stock, single 8800GT) is 37.41 Avg fps (on high, @ stock, SLI 8800GT) is 47.95 . so there we have it. nice scaling there NVidia...

I still have the disks...fear not young canuck!

I disagree with the Sgt. above. That is not bad PSU...it is bad mobo...that is gonna be the first thing that is fragged after a surge or spike...the mobo has a VERY NARROW range of voltage input. Same thing happened to my abit p4 mobo about 6 months ago. I'd get a brief spin up of fans, then click...nada. Easy way to test PSU is to hook PSU up to any mobo and power up.

I think I will buy after a patch or two... digg.com is reporting some really dissatisfied customers, who are blasting amazon with 1/5 stars. Apparently some people think that the gameplay glitches do not allow game to live up to its hype.

To be honest...my 3dmark scores went up from my initial install about 3 weeks ago...I got a slight bump on my broken-in system. Let me know when you start to OC. I am a complete noob to OC in the core2duo world...so I need some hints on all that. I've read online guides, etc...but would like to have real person input. Also, part of my advantage could be a slight bump in the score due to my HDD, which is a 150gb raptor x. I bet that helps to negate the 10% gain your 4850 should be getting you.

I don't think the 4850 is faster than 8800 ultra but definitely faster than the 8800 GT (which is what I have) in almost every online bench I've ever seen. Right now, ironically, the single fastest card i've seen (granted, I haven't seen any really good tests of the 4870 X2) is still the 9800 GX2. Anandtech.com did a nice review of the Nvidia GTX280 when it came out and the only things that beat it were the 4870 in crossfire (in most benches), 8800 in SLI, 9800 in SLI, and the 9800GX2. I find that funny, because the 9800 GX2 is available street for about $200 now...if it scaled well in all games, you could have a kick-butt quad GPU system for $400. I would be interested to see Dark run crysis, with same settings as me, through the included benches. I bet, the 4850 would do better...800 stream processors, even running at lower clocks, probably does better with shader-heavy games like crysis. What's your hardware setup Cujo?

Bout freakin' time! Nice...I was wondering how the 8800 GT would compare with the 4850. I will run a single 8800 and see what the numbers are. Most of the online stuff I see, the 4850 is winning by 10-15%. *edit. Just ran in non-SLI mode, single 8800 GT; with everything at stock, I just got Overall: 12055 SM 2.0: 5672 SM 3.0 5351 CPU: 2822 Interesting. I will have to run SLI again to see if I get similar improvements. That is about 1000 more than I thought a single 8800GT would get me. What chipset is your mobo? Oh, and what hard drive you using?