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Permalink Reply by George Burgess on July 23, 2010 at 1:31am

It could be getting too hot with all of those high-tech components. How good is your cooling system?

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Permalink Reply by Frode Haugsand on July 23, 2010 at 1:46am

CPU rarely gets over 45*C, north- and south- bridge haven't been over 55 and MB(motherboard?) rarely gets over 35... So I don't think thats a problem...
got this tower: ANTEC Twelve Hundred Ultimate Gamer Case

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Permalink Reply by George Burgess on July 23, 2010 at 5:43am

Year that sounds good.

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Permalink Reply by Ken on July 23, 2010 at 7:07am

Crysis is a poorly optimized game. Your system looks great to me.

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Permalink Reply by Greg De Santis on July 23, 2010 at 2:58pm

There has been only one thing that has not been mentioned so far, even though it is minor and has been known to make difference in the past especially with and NVIDIA dual video card configuration - is your motherboard bios up to date with the latest version, and of course are you on the latest NVIDIA drivers for your cards? Seeing how a combination of both of these have been known to make about a 20% performance increase on configurations that need the specific upgrades.

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Permalink Reply by Frode Haugsand on July 23, 2010 at 5:44pm

I just checked my bios, and yes, I got the latest driver... but my RAM is running on auto, which is 1066Mhz(or something). While they are made for going at 1600Mhz. Not that i belive that would matter much, when i got 12 gig of it... but still, would you recommend me to change it to 1600?
I don't have any experience of tweaking systems, but I'm more than willing to learn :)
And whats with the windows preformance index of 5,9?? I got, decending: 7,6 7,6 7,9 7,9 5,9... That's a 300GB 10k rpm WD velociraptor... yes, if you compare it to a SSD, and use a linear curve, than maybe you would get around 5,9... stupid f***! (I have partitioned it, though) (and yeah, I know it would have gotten MUCH lower vs. SSD with a linear curve ;)
wpi aside, good thinking here! Good replies:) But I got a gut feeling that my system could run even better than it is:/ (without overclocking)

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Permalink Reply by Justen on July 26, 2010 at 8:07am

Windoze performance index is based on the lowest of all ratings. If your lowest rating is 5.9, your performance index is 5.9.

If your RAM is rated at 1600mhz but only running 1066, I am willing to bet you've not set up your BIOS correctly. It's probably running default (failsafe) settings. You need to go in there and tune it properly for your hardware or you're going to get nothing out of it. Go forth and seek out a guide to motherboard configuration, pilgrim! There are tons of them out there, probably including one for your motherboard chipset & BIOS, so I won't try to go into more detail here.

Don't be scared to do it, it absolutely has to be done for you to get anything out of that system. If you do it so wrong that the system won't boot, all you need to do is reset the CMOS (check your mobo manual for where the reset CMOS jumper is, or just unplug and pop the little watch battery out, wait a few seconds, and pop it back ina gain). If there are voltage settings, leave those alone unless you know exactly why you want to change them and what for. Other than that your hardware should not allow you to do anything that will cause permanent damage, as I assume you have not done any hardware unlocking (since you've mentioned you don't OC).

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Permalink Reply by Frode Haugsand on July 26, 2010 at 2:18pm

I can understand that I will get more preformance from my RAM at 1600Mhz, but as for july 2010, are there any program where there will be any changes in preformance as opposed of 1066Mhz? In my experience, the GPU is the component that goes first. But I'l try to sqeeze a couple of months of lifetime out my RAM, or any components btw, without compromising preformance(!), if i can.

I think I will try OC'ing in some years, when my system is outdated. ;)

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Permalink Reply by Greg De Santis on July 23, 2010 at 7:27pm

I know of only a few tweaks to Crysis, this one is the first one I always suggest:

Go into your video card control panel and make sure antialiasing(AA) or anisotropic filtering(AF) is not enabled (turn them off) if your monitor is already running at a high resolution 1600 x 1200 or higher 1920 x 1200 the jagged lines should not be visible , AA and AF are perfornmance killers at high resolutions.

There are plenty of tweaks to do to Crysis and this site should get you started: http://www.tweakguides.com/Crysis_1.html

And another very small thread that may be worth checking out: http://www.techsupportforum.com/gaming-forum/gaming-discussion/1967...

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Permalink Reply by Tyler Payne on July 23, 2010 at 11:56pm

With a system like that, your bottleneck are the hard drives. SSDs are expensive, but there are options such as raid that would greatly increase your speed without being as expensive as a SSD. If you had two 7200 drives raided together, the total speed would be 14400, much higher than a velociraptor. My parent's computer has a dual core Athlon and 4Gb of RAM, but you can tell it's still waiting for the hard drive when you're using it.

If you feel that it may be due to the partitioning of the hard drive, it easily may be. Usually hard drives write to the faster part of the drive first. For example, if you installed Windows on a hard drive, and then later partitioned the drive for Linux, the Windows partition would be faster because it was created first. This is also why deleting files off a nearly full hard drive can slightly increase performance.

As far as your RAM goes, if it's set on Automatic and it's not running at full speed, then I wouldn't doubt that it is throttling itself. It may speed up when it needs to be fast but throttling down to save power and life of the RAM modules when the high performance is not needed.

I also noticed that you did not mention the optical drive. Does Crysis by any chance run from a DVD? If so, that may be another bottleneck. I suggest either finding a no cd crack or using a program like PowerISO to rip the DVD to your hard drive and then run it from the hard drive. Even a 5400 RPM hard drive would be significantly faster than a DVD drive.

Now, I want to let you know that gaming really isn't my area of expertise. So, I wish you luck and hope I helped!

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Permalink Reply by George Burgess on July 24, 2010 at 12:43am

Good reply Tyler Payne.

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Permalink Reply by Frode Haugsand on July 24, 2010 at 4:42am

Thank you, Tyler. Good reply!
I have one blue-ray/dvd-rw player and another dvd-rw, but I use no-cd on every game i have ;)
But when it comes to RAID, I have no experience... I read the wikipedia article just now, but didn't understand it all...
Say I went overkill and bought 6x SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 500GB SATA 3.5" 7200RPM 16MB. How would you set them up? Would you part them up in two RAID-groups, one for OS and one for games? Will I "loose" capasity? Would you recommend parting them up, so the OS and the games where on seperate partitions?
I have always seen the possibility of RAID, but never laid any effort in to understand it:/

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