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8800 GTS, but you have to also consider your processor, PSU and RAM.

What is your PSU? Power Supply Unit rating?
Either get an overclocked version of the 320MB or a 640MB one.

Special_Op wrote:

Zimmer wrote:

What is your PSU? Power Supply Unit rating?
Either get an overclocked version of the 320MB or a 640MB one.

i got a cheap 420W PSU

Ouch. You're gonna wanna update that to at least 550 watts, especially if you get an 8800 GTS.

you're going to want 36+amps on the 12v rail

Special_Op wrote:

Poseidon wrote:

Special_Op wrote:

i got a cheap 420W PSU

Ouch. You're gonna wanna update that to at least 550 watts, especially if you get an 8800 GTS.

it costs only 50€(about 30pounds) so its no problem

Ah, okay. Works for you then.

If you can go higher, go higher. Especially if you plan to go SLi.

Pernicious544 wrote:

8800GTS is the best bang for your buck in the 8800 family

8800GTX

Special_Op wrote:

hi

i read some really good posts on this side so i think i can register myself here.
i want to buy a new graphic card in a few months and it has to be good enough for crysis.
so what card of the 8000series is a good but cheap card?

thanks for advices
SpecOp

get the 8800GTX! XXXXXXX!!!!
Its worth the extra because when you pop in crysis and have to play on medium... youll be pissed.

But is the 3500+ on a board with PCI-e? Mine still has AGP.

But...I'd say it's new rig time.

MECtallica wrote:

you're going to want 36+amps on the 12v rail

No he isn't. That's way more than he needs. You only need a total of 30A on the combined 12V rails for a GTX a GTS requires much less - at peak usage it draws about 13-16A (compared to the GTXs 18-20A).
His PSU may well be fine. 400W is very often perfectly sufficient for an 8800GTS. I've run one on a crappy 380W Antec one for a little while and even a dirty QTEC PSU, no issues either time, though didn't do any OCing.

Don't listen to the inevitable PSU lies. Everyone always seems convinced you need 100000000000000W PSUs to run any sort of high end GPU, it's not true.

A lot of people are chatting a lot of rubbish on this thread. This always seems to happen when threads about Crysis pop up. As has been mentioned, a 7800GTX can run Crysis at highish medium settings, DX10 cards will have an advantage, not only in graphical splendour, but also in speed. DX10 mode is much quicker. An 8800GTS should run Crysis nicely at high settings, probably not absolutely maxed out, but certainly at high settings.

Profitteroles wrote:

Dezerteagal5 wrote:

Special_Op wrote:

hi

i read some really good posts on this side so i think i can register myself here.
i want to buy a new graphic card in a few months and it has to be good enough for crysis.
so what card of the 8000series is a good but cheap card?

thanks for advices
SpecOp

get the 8800GTX! XXXXXXX!!!!
Its worth the extra because when you pop in crysis and have to play on medium... youll be pissed.

If they say a 7800 GTX will run it on high why do you think an 8800gts will only play on medium???

Why does everyone automaticly suggest the best graphics card in the market? not everybody wants to spend £200 £300+ just for a graphics card especially when he only has a AMD 3500 which is not good enough for a GTX it will bottleneck at the CPU.

You need to know what Size monitor he has and what sort of budget.

8500gt will run crysis on low settings up to a 15-17in monitor getting 30-50fps -- cost £50 $90

8600gts will run crysis on medium-some on high settings up to a 17-20 inch monitor getting 40-60 fps -- cost £90 $160

8800gts will run crysis on high settings up to a 20-24 inch monitor getting 60-90 fps -- cost £180 $300

8800gtx will run crysis with every setting on max on a 24 inch+ monitor getting 100+ fps -- cost £370 $550

No offence, but no. An 8800GTS will NOT run Crysis with everything maxed out at 1920x1200 or 2560x1600. That is the most bullshit speculations I've seen so far. Sorry! >.<

JaMrulezass wrote:

Profitteroles wrote:

Dezerteagal5 wrote:

get the 8800GTX! XXXXXXX!!!!
Its worth the extra because when you pop in crysis and have to play on medium... youll be pissed.

If they say a 7800 GTX will run it on high why do you think an 8800gts will only play on medium???

Why does everyone automaticly suggest the best graphics card in the market? not everybody wants to spend £200 £300+ just for a graphics card especially when he only has a AMD 3500 which is not good enough for a GTX it will bottleneck at the CPU.

You need to know what Size monitor he has and what sort of budget.

8500gt will run crysis on low settings up to a 15-17in monitor getting 30-50fps -- cost £50 $90

8600gts will run crysis on medium-some on high settings up to a 17-20 inch monitor getting 40-60 fps -- cost £90 $160

8800gts will run crysis on high settings up to a 20-24 inch monitor getting 60-90 fps -- cost £180 $300

8800gtx will run crysis with every setting on max on a 24 inch+ monitor getting 100+ fps -- cost £370 $550

No offence, but no. An 8800GTS will NOT run Crysis with everything maxed out at 1920x1200 or 2560x1600. That is the most bullshit speculations I've seen so far. Sorry! >.<

20 21 and 22 inch monitors (well most) run at 1680 x1050 Widescreen or 1600x1200 4:3, 2560x1600 is for like 30 inch monitors, no where in my post did i say an 8800gts will run a 30 inch monitor. Maybe if i had put 20-23.9999999 inch monitors it would have been clearer for you to understand. But i still fail to see why it is  "the most bullshit speculations I've seen so far" I dont claim that what i wrote was 100% accurate but it aint that far off

Last edited by Profitteroles (2007-06-07 05:57:23)

If you really want to know how Crysis will run, on different bits of hardware then i suggest reading this http://www.crysis-online.com/forum/inde … 487.0.html

You will NOT have to shell out for a top end graphics card to play Crysis. You WILL have to shell out if you want to play it with DX10 and all settings maxed out on anything abouve 1280 x 1024.

It really depends what you want, but remember like Proffiteroles says if you buy a top end GPU you may need to look at overclocking or upgrading your CPU as it may bottleneck the performance.