Advice please

 

Basically you could say I just want a Crysis system... because if it could play that well I am pretty sure it could handle absolutely anything else for a few years.( I am making this statement based upon reading everyones frustration with trying to get more FPS out of their high end systems :)

 

I do play mostly RTS games, and if a game is good enough (crysis) Ill play it.  I was able to play the Crysis demo on my laptop (2.0 GHZ 2 core, 2gb mem, 256mb Graphics nvidia 7900) at the lowest settings with probably 20-25 fps.  Now I want more :(

 

Are there any upgrades / switches I could do to make the performance better for gaming?  Is my processor sufficient enough?  I am hoping to have the CPU and GPU overclocked. 

 

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Processor: Intel Core 2 Duo E6850 3.00GHz (1333MHz Front Side Bus) (4MB Cache)
Motherboard: nVidia 680i Core 2 Quad (By: eVGA) (nForce 680i SLI) (A1 Revision)
Memory: 4GB DDR2 Corsair at 1066MHz Dominator (Dual Channel) (Extreme-Performance)
Floppy / Media: Digital Media Card Reader (Black)
Hard Drive 1: 320GB (Western Digital / Seagate) (16MB Cache) (7200 RPM) (SATA)
Optical Drive 1: DVD-ROM/CD-ROM (DVD Reader 16x / CD Reader 40x)
Optical Drive 2: DVD±R/RW/CD-R/RW (DVD Writer 20x / CD-Writer 48x)
Network Card: High Speed Network Port (Supports High-Speed Cable / DSL / Network Connections)
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I understand each system is different, but what increase do you think the CPU and GPU could be OC'd to?  I do not really have a limit on budget for this sytem, but I do not really want to spend a lot of extra money for just a small increase in performance. 

 

You'll want one of those anyway if you're installing 4GB of RAM since that's the only way the comp will see all of it anyway.

 

Other than that, it's hard to find any faults with that config, it looks pretty screamin fast.

 

Also, just to note, if you go with the media reader, 2 of your front USB ports will not work. They need to use one of the USB 2 connectors for the reader.

Like Tyler mentioned, there should be a big performance gain in x64 Vista.  If you want the full benefit of those 4 gigs, you're going to want to go with that OS.

 

With the speeds that DS is starting to get the Q6600 to, you might want to go quad.  You'd really cash in if you combined that with the x64 OS.

 

Also, you might want to get in touch with Alex about Tri-SLI.  I posted a thread about the technology and he said they had been "messing" with it for at least a month.  There have been really big performance gains with Tri-SLI (especially in high-res with AA), so it's a very eligible setup for three 8800 GT's.