Hi guys. I wanted to know what other 2nd Gen intel users are seeing for performance.
Rig:
intel core i5 2nd gen 2400
2x2gb dual channel ram crucial ballistix @ 1333
cooler master 850w psu
evga gtx 460 1gb SLI'ed @ 720mhz (standard clock)
500gb western digital HDD (the achilles heel)
MSI p67a-GD65 b3 mobo
1920x1080p sharp aquos led monitor

just got my 2nd gtx460 today. with one card, I was seeing appx 50fps on Very High setting, as it was choppy in combat on Extreme. when I installed the 2nd card and ran crysis 2, I couldn't believe my eyes. 112 fps, in combat on Very High. set it to Extreme, and expected to see about 45 fps (which is what the GTX580 averages according to geforce.com) and BOOM, 72+ fps in heavy combat. no overclock; anyone who ever said (including that tech support guy at EVGA) that 460 sli wont stack up to a 580 is LYING. what are you guys getting for performance??

all im saying is that i which a had those spec

I concur with the above my laptop handles this game ok but I wish I could run 72 + in 1080p

On a single Hd5870 overclocked + i5-2500K, rarely go below 50fps, ever

I have i5 760 @ 3.4Ghz, MSI p55-gd65, Patriot DDR3 2x2gb 1600 adn HD5870 Vapor-x @ OC.... sadly due to weak cooling and high temps in my room still cant squeeze out max performance from this rig. My 5870 needs Zalman VF3000A cooling to survive at summer lmao
Well atm i have 40-70+FPS on maxed Extreme settings, could be better tho.

i get 60 solid with a single 570 and an i7 920 in 1080 extreme settings

what are you talking about, 460's are faster than a one 580 in every benchmark, im just ranting because i have a i5, but mines actually a 2300 and at 3.2ghz OC, so.......ya, and I also have teo 260's, except under real heavy action, it drops to 50fps, like on the huge downed bird level. But still around 70 fps running around on extreme 1920x1080. Cant see where in the world you would have picked up a 580 is faster than two 460's.

I find Fable 3 to be more graphically intensive than this game in it's current state. I can run this game on extreme on a q6600 quad core, 8 gigs of corsair ballistix, and a radeon hd 6950 flashed to a 6970 without a single hiccup.

If I max out fable 3, I can get some lag out in the wide open.

2500k oc to 4.4ghz, 570gtx sli, 100 fps+ on extreme

two 460s are good, amazing bang for your buck! i built my cousin a SB system and since his budget wasnt very much, got him a 460 for now, and will drop another 460 for his bday

Nice rig OP.

Phenom II 955 oc 3.8ghz + ASUS gtx 560ti oc
constant 60fps on extreme settings 1080p with vsync on, but I turned off nvidia fxaa because it blurs everything and takes 4-5 fps.
however the fps does drop in intensive areas, never below 45fps though.

Thats awesome that you built your cousin a SB system with a 460, I cant tell you how impressed I am with it. What's really bizarre is that my mobo operates dual 16x pcie cards at either 8x8 or 16x8 (depending on what site you look at, lol even MSI tech support couldn't really say!), and with one card i was seeing 50 fps avg on Very High settings, with 2 installed, it should theoretically have a slight bottleneck because a) the 2 460's should "only" scale at 1.9x the performance of 1 card, and b) its no longer operating at 16x, its 8x8 or 16x8. But it actually jumped to 112 fps, which is > 2.1x performance increase! not to mention the performance you can squeeze out of the gtx460's when overclocking.. anyone else using a SB rig? crossfire maybe?

I thought this thread was about the 1155 CPU's, then it magically turned into a 460 SLI vs Single 580 LOL
I was getting horrible FPS with my old CPU (e8500 @ 4.2GHz), when I upgraded to the 2500K @ 4.2GHz, I was getting up to around 30-40FPS with a single 460 @ stock. Rather obvious that my e8500 was a bottleneck durr.

Edit: For the guy who posted below somewhere. My resolution was 1920x1080 (:

I bought my rig for this game in particular. i5 2500k, sli gtx 570's, 12gb ddr3 ram... I have 4 recommendations for everyone.

Don't upgrade your rigs to play Crysis 2.

Don't support this game for Crytek does not support its dying PC fan base.

Don't buy the DLC.

Pre-Order Battlefield 3, when it releases you will never think about this game again.

Why do people post their hardware and FPS without mentioning resolution? Makes the entire post meaningless.

Pre-Order Battlefield 3, when it releases you will never think about this game again.

Battlefield 3 is many things but one thing it's not is Sci-fi, Crysis 2 is a Sci-fi shooter, something a little different, i'm a fan of BC2 but Crysis 2 MP is way better, ok not including the destructable & more open maps.

*Brrb*

Yeah, 460s SLIed are peachy.

Hi guys. I wanted to know what other 2nd Gen intel users are seeing for performance.
Rig:
intel core i5 2nd gen 2400
2x2gb dual channel ram crucial ballistix @ 1333
cooler master 850w psu
evga gtx 460 1gb SLI'ed @ 720mhz (standard clock)
500gb western digital HDD (the achilles heel)
MSI p67a-GD65 b3 mobo
1920x1080p sharp aquos led monitor

just got my 2nd gtx460 today. with one card, I was seeing appx 50fps on Very High setting, as it was choppy in combat on Extreme. when I installed the 2nd card and ran crysis 2, I couldn't believe my eyes. 112 fps, in combat on Very High. set it to Extreme, and expected to see about 45 fps (which is what the GTX580 averages according to geforce.com) and BOOM, 72+ fps in heavy combat. no overclock; anyone who ever said (including that tech support guy at EVGA) that 460 sli wont stack up to a 580 is LYING. what are you guys getting for performance??

Running i5 2500k @ 5.0 vcore 1.45 24hours blend stable
gskill ripjaws 16gb at 2133 1.65v
slio gtx 580's 950/2050/2400
raid 0 ssd's sata iii
fps 120 extreme
h20cooled

Personally... I am waiting on the new "AMD BullDozer (FX) Socket AM3+" 8 core / 6 core processors! One, they will surely be cheaper than any Intel processor, and the AMD BullDozer 8 core is supposed to be 50% faster than the Intel Core i7 2600K. Saw some leaked benchmark results of the "AMD BullDozer AM3+ 6 Core" edition, which will be cheaper than the 8 core, it was pitted up against the AMD Phenom-II X6 1100T, depending on the application, it ran 41% to 67% faster than the Phenom-II X6 1100T. That's quite impressive!

AMD used to be top dawg years ago, I think they plan on re-taking the lead again with the BullDozer (FX) release. It's supposed to be out "sometime in 2nd Qtr 2011" (April/May/June), so basically anytime now! Already seeing AM3+ motherboards online, though still the AMD 800 series chipsets, the 900 series chipsets will launch with the AMD BullDozer (FX) AM3+ processors. All I know is I've got money saved up for a new AM3+ system build ($682.00 so far). Most of my current hardware will go into it, with the exception of my mobo and processor of course. I've got 12gb of ddr3 1866, two Intel SSD Drives (320 series Sata-II / 510 series Sata-III), two Geforce GTX 465's (unlocked to 470's), and Creative-X-Fi Audio card. Just got a new Corsair AX1200 (1200 watt) Pro Series powersupply with 100.4A @ 12v+ rail .. So I'm ready!!!

Want to improve your "current" setup, think it's slow? Get a "SSD Drive" ... Just doing that increase my PCmark Vantage scores by 37% higher. Also, if you want a "reliable" SSD drive, don't go for the flat out fastest one. Intel probably has the best quality SSD drive out, yeah you'll see some with faster read/write speeds, you'll also see alot of personal reviews with upset users, Intel SSD's have the least complaints of any of them. I simply love them! I thought @ first giving up the space was not going to be worth the speed differences, I quickly found out I was wrong. Compared to my 450gb VelociRaptor Sata-III, I would take this 120gb Intel SSD over it anytime! I still use the VelociRaptor as a secondary drive, like storage, etc..

I bought my rig for this game in particular. i5 2500k, sli gtx 570's, 12gb ddr3 ram... I have 4 recommendations for everyone.

Don't upgrade your rigs to play Crysis 2.

Don't support this game for Crytek does not support its dying PC fan base.

Don't buy the DLC.

Pre-Order Battlefield 3, when it releases you will never think about this game again.

upgraded for crysis 2 as well lol. what a mistake. oh well.

no need for an i5 for this game... all it needs is a decent quad core and a decent card for good performance (since crytek downgraded the processing effects alot)

1600x900
GTX 570 @ 800(c)/4Ghz(m)
Phenom 965 @ 3.8Ghz

and on Extreme i always get a constant 60fps (i play with V-sync on)

still though, games like Just Cause 2 leave me waiting for a faster quad.

upgraded for crysis 2 as well lol. what a mistake. oh well.

it's ok you're not alone.

anyways... i7 2600k... i don't OC but it was the only i7 in stock at the time =[. 2x 560 ti but i turn sli off cuz of the stupid flickering issue... so just 1 560. 40-60 fps on extreme. 1920x1200.

980x at 4.8 ghz , 12 gigs dominator 2000 mhz , 5970 + 5870 (tri-fire) running 2560x1600 (extreme)
125-160 fps

Benching on this game is meaningless until the dx11 patch comes. They have a lot to make up for, so I am sure it will be crippling.

I bought my rig for this game in particular. i5 2500k, sli gtx 570's, 12gb ddr3 ram...
What is with people and going over 4gb of ram for gaming, other than maybe slight faster loading of level 12gb is not better than 4gb of ram in matter of gaming. If someone is not working with video/graphic editors and VERY huge projects or working with graphic engines then 12gb of ram is just a waste of money.

I bought my rig for this game in particular. i5 2500k, sli gtx 570's, 12gb ddr3 ram...
What is with people and going over 4gb of ram for gaming, other than maybe slight faster loading of level 12gb is not better than 4gb of ram in matter of gaming. If someone is not working with video/graphic editors and VERY huge projects or working with graphic engines then 12gb of ram is just a waste of money.

Ram is cheap as hell these days. 8gb (2x4gb) of good ram doesnt cost much at all. saving 30 bucks and getting 4gb of ram instead of 8gb doesnt sound like the best option.

i agree ram is very cheap ! why not get extra , oh and btw i have a couple games that use over 4 gigs of system memory (avp and bfbc 2 ) and i'm sure there will be more in the future