| Mummelmann said: No, this rig did not cost 20.000$ and I never said so. Read again, this was an insane computer (the story is 8-9 months old as well, the newest cards were not available in SLI) with GPU's worth over 1800$ (at the time) but it was not even close to doing the job. Most PC geeks and hardware experts agree that there is no hardware, regardless of price, available commercially that will run Crysis absolutely maxed out. Crossfire 4870 won't help much since it is not the overall tech req's that are hogging the resources, it is the programming/optimization and this is (again) the basis of the entire situation and my whole point. Crytek are sloppy at optimizing (like Rockstar are poor at overall programming) and that is why this game is causing such a headache. UT3 easily looks as good as Crysis but requires only a fraction of the omph to run perfectly because (yet again) the programming and optimization is miles better than on Crysis. |
You're forgetting something regarding the HD4870X2 I think. Unlike SLI and Crossfire, it will scale ~100% regardless of the game. Comebine that with an actual set of HD4870X2's in CF and you have a beast. With the proper motherboard and chipset you could een go so far as to quad crossfire HD4870X2's.
Sure that's exepnsive (certainly not $20k expensive) and the crossfire scaling won't be of the greatest benefit but each card is ~100% scaled between the two cores. If scaling is the biggest hurdle in maxing out Crysis, you have to admit this is as feasible an opportunity to clear that hurdle that we'll have.
They launch in about a month with a speculated price tag of $450.00. Yeah, expensive but the same price as individual 8800 Ultras and certainly more powerful.
The rEVOLution is not being televised
