Crysis 1 is a GPU hog. upgrading a CPU to improve your frames did almost absolutely nothing.

Will crysis 2 and cry engine 3 be more refined and better coded? I would like the game to properly take advantage of my quad core, and have a good balance on the GPU as well.

Already pre ordered, but just thought I would bring this up.

going from dual core to qaud was a good jump on crysis1
warhead they optimized so it only needed a dual
crysis2 runs on console so it will be even optimized more
every modern game maxes out your gpu,cpus like qauds not needed in most games anyways

The CryEngine 3 has support for taking advantage of up to eight-core processors, but whether or not it's optimized for that is a different story.

I do think that a much higher load is placed on the cpu this time in Crysis 2 and that it will benefit from more cores, but still expect your video card to take a heavy beating.

The CryEngine 3 has support for taking advantage of up to eight-core processors, but whether or not it's optimized for that is a different story.

I do think that a much higher load is placed on the cpu this time in Crysis 2 and that it will benefit from more cores, but still expect your video card to take a heavy beating.
I also agree, true with both aspects. Though new gpu's should handle fine in theory. And I don't believe there is such a thing as an eight core processor yet. Correct me, if I'm wrong?

Nope, no eight core processors yet. I do believe they are on the horizon though for the upcoming AMD Bulldozer when its launched later this year. As for when Intel rolls them out... They still need to make six cores available for under $800, so who knows when the real processor company will roll them out.

Nope, no eight core processors yet. I do believe they are on the horizon though for the upcoming AMD Bulldozer when its launched later this year. As for when Intel rolls them out... They still need to make six cores available for under $800, so who knows when the real processor company will roll them out.

8 core(16thread) chips will be coming out by q3 this year for intel. Its gonna be amazing.

I have a six core processor with hyperthreading, totalling twelve threads. I wonder why they stopped at eight threads. I guess it's because quad cores with hyperthreading are a lot more common.

Nope, no eight core processors yet. I do believe they are on the horizon though for the upcoming AMD Bulldozer when its launched later this year. As for when Intel rolls them out... They still need to make six cores available for under $800, so who knows when the real processor company will roll them out.

8 core(16thread) chips will be coming out by q3 this year for intel. Its gonna be amazing.

Will that be the enthusiast launch of the Sandy Bridge series? I am confused as to what Intel's next enthusiast part is, is it the next Sandy Bridge release in Q3 or the Ivy Bridge that is expected in Q1 2012. After all, I do not want to purchase Sandy Bridge if I will just have Ivy Bridge to upgrade to for enthusiast parts only 6 months later.

Nope, no eight core processors yet. I do believe they are on the horizon though for the upcoming AMD Bulldozer when its launched later this year. As for when Intel rolls them out... They still need to make six cores available for under $800, so who knows when the real processor company will roll them out.

8 core(16thread) chips will be coming out by q3 this year for intel. Its gonna be amazing.

Will that be the enthusiast launch of the Sandy Bridge series? I am confused as to what Intel's next enthusiast part is, is it the next Sandy Bridge release in Q3 or the Ivy Bridge that is expected in Q1 2012. After all, I do not want to purchase Sandy Bridge if I will just have Ivy Bridge to upgrade to for enthusiast parts only 6 months later.

Yes. I'm pretty sure its enthusiast SB. Sandy Bridge is amazing(I heard that some people can OC to 5Ghz with the ones out now and still stay at ~60C full load) but I think I would wait till the next series of chips if you wanna upgrade. Especially if you were impatient and decided to buy last years chips(920, 940, etc) like I did...

CPU for anything that requires intense calculating (I.E: physics and AI.) and GPU for rendering it all. Simple as that.

With my amd 965 and my intel i7 930, both do not even reach 60% on any game i played.

GPU's are a completely different story.

If you have a good CPU, there is no need to upgrade it or change the board.

A game being multi platform has nothing to do with the PC. For example, BC2 can be run in DX11, i wonder if console can run it? off course not.

Crysis 2 does have a DX11 version, looking at the 3d render files, there are two dx11 files on the leaked game.

For gaming, focus on GPU if you have a good cpu.

Unless you are in the video editing business and need to render/edit videos fast, a multi core/threaded cpu is the heart of you're system. For gaming, purely gaming, a good quad core (for future proof) is all you need for years to come. GPU's are the weak point in gaming.

is crysis going to suport dx10? i am sitting on 2 4850 now but thinking about getting an upgrade soon

*crysis 2

is crysis going to suport dx10? i am sitting on 2 4850 now but thinking about getting an upgrade soon

I would imagine so, but we will have to wait at least for the Mp demo, maybe dx11 will be available as part of the demo/test to report back (as well as dx10).

Even my phenom II X4 @ 3.4GHz was a bottleneck on my hd5870 in crysis >< I never really noticed how badly i was limited until i got my i5-2500K and dialled it up to 5GHz

Even my phenom II X4 @ 3.4GHz was a bottleneck on my hd5870 in crysis >< I never really noticed how badly i was limited until i got my i5-2500K and dialled it up to 5GHz

That is very unlikely, but interesting nontheless.

To check for a bottleneck, install a Hardware monitor and check the GPU usage during gameplay, if its reaching the 95%+ area, you either dont have a bottleneck, or its negligible.

On the CPU vs GPU on CryENGINE 3 topic, i think GPU will be totally dominant in the matter, as it was with CE2.
For medium~high anything above a 3.2GHz Dual-Core shoud be fine, the GPU will limit the performance. For enthusiast setting you will need more GPU power, then a quad-core might be necessary.

Any tech experts here have any idea how well an i5 750 clocked at 3.1ghz and an ATI Radeon 5850 will run Crysis2? What kind of details can I expect to get @ the highest, higher, and middle settings?

Even my phenom II X4 @ 3.4GHz was a bottleneck on my hd5870 in crysis >< I never really noticed how badly i was limited until i got my i5-2500K and dialled it up to 5GHz

That is very unlikely, but interesting nontheless.

To check for a bottleneck, install a Hardware monitor and check the GPU usage during gameplay, if its reaching the 95%+ area, you either dont have a bottleneck, or its negligible.

On the CPU vs GPU on CryENGINE 3 topic, i think GPU will be totally dominant in the matter, as it was with CE2.
For medium~high anything above a 3.2GHz Dual-Core shoud be fine, the GPU will limit the performance. For enthusiast setting you will need more GPU power, then a quad-core might be necessary.

I know what a bottleneck is and how to check, obviously or i wouldn't have said it was the cause, the hd5870 was running at ~60-75% in said situations. The reason for the slowdown (20-30fps) was usually when a lot of enemies were on screen (end of first level on warhead, village in second level of crysis 1 are the two main points where it noticeably occurs) so the physics/AI thread hit the roof of one core on enthusiast. Crysis 2 was only designed around 2 cores, so the physics runs on one thread, the other 3 cores weren't doing much at all. It's more a coding issue than hardware.

My new i5-2500K at 5GHz has no such issues with one core getting overburdened as all the cores are so much more powerful, so they can brute force past it.