Tom's Crisis
Hello, the point is in the name:
A Crysis Rig
Dear Tom's,
Truly disappointing, and I waited for this! Are you guys taking a break from reality; are you testing us to see if we are paying attention, or is this simply and tactically an effort to sell parts for your advertisers?
No one should spend any money on or waste any time building a rig for Crysis that cannot produce at least 60 frames a second, minimum, while running Crysis-- Crysis is the demand of the future, and why, why, use an antiquated NVIDIA 680i? Have not you people heard everything has changed and NVIDIA has not caught up? Does the bandwidth of DDR3 mean anything?
Wait for the right mainboard, a scalable one, or you will have people wishing that they could benefit from next year's high-bandwidth cards in their yesteryear's bottlenecked PCIe slots, please.
What good is it to review or give statistics about performance without being dictated to by the maximum hit? Pointedly, if the time that you guys and gals invest in building a Crysis rig ever sees a frame rate below 60 running the title's effects maxed, (at 1920 by 1200, or higher), and the slowdown was expected, not only have you wasted your time, you have wasted mine; and I thought only funny dogs and puppies chased their tails. I was waiting for something more attentive from Tom's research.
Everyone should put on the brakes until the technology is available. For instance, AMD's Spider platform is remarkably intelligent in many ways but not quite there performance wise, yet! Therefore, I think NVIDIA's delayed next-generation mainboards will be the ticket, or hopefully ASUS has purchase, like Intel did, the right to make an SLI board. Either way, one need only wait several more weeks before much more scalable platforms are available, new mainboards; plus, where is NVIDIA's next-generation GPU, just around the corner is where! And as a note, DirectX 10.1 cards' higher efficiency is an essential formula toward maximum performance.
To Tom's and everyone, have a blest holiday.
Sincerely,
Joseph