Crysis - DirectX 10:
We’ve updated our test software for this review to include the DirectX10 version of Crysis, which has to be one of the best looking and most graphically intensive games on the market, it’s certainly one of the most popular at the moment.
We tested Crysis on the highest quality level, with No Anti-Aliasing and with 4X Anti-Aliasing. The game engine supports much (MUCH!) higher AA levels, but the numbers were getting low enough already with only 4X, so we just left it at 4X for this review.
With the single cards we’re seeing an improvement of around 5-6% across the range for the overclocked versions, which considering the mild level of overclocking they have over the standard cards, it’s about as good an increase as you can expect.
The SLI setups have shown similar improvements for the OC cards versus the standard items, so at least it’s a consistent improvement, however there’s very little improvement in some areas for the SLI versus Single card setups, showing that this game is very CPU intensive and could really benefit with as much processing power as you can afford to throw at it.
Crysis with a single card @ 4xAA has a really poor frame rate. Must have been very jerky.
What processor/MB would you recommend to get a single 8800GT or GTS (512) to work with higher frame rates?