4gb ram or Q6600 for Crysis?

sorry to make a will Crysis run thread. but

So i have the beta, its not running the speed i would want.

I have a very high end PC, with 8800 gtx.

i currently have a E6600, and 2 gig or ram, im wondering which one i should upgrade to get the best performance.

so should I upgrade to Quad Core Q6600, or 4 gig of ram

Cheers

i think the q6600 would do more to improver performance, 2gb will be enough ram to run crysis from what i gatherkruesader

yeah thats what im hoping cos one of them would be kinda cheap if I sold my E660 afterwards.

i think the q6600 would do more to improver performance, 2gb will be enough ram to run crysis from what i gatherkruesader

Seeing as Crysis was built from the ground up to use 2-4 cores the q6600 will deff be the better investment.

[QUOTE="kruesader"]i think the q6600 would do more to improver performance, 2gb will be enough ram to run crysis from what i gatherblacktorn

Seeing as Crysis was built from the ground up to use 2-4 cores the q6600 will deff be the better investment.

seems like the best bet is the Q6600, thanks

where did u get the demo from?b0ssy

He didn't get the demo...reading comprehension FTW.

Wait and see if quads will actually help with the full game that much before you go buying one just to run the game better, honestly. Are you running Vista?Makari

yeah running vista.

[QUOTE="b0ssy"]where did u get the demo from?shanelevy

He didn't get the demo...reading comprehension FTW.

beta/demo basically same thing in my books so i just use whichever word

where did he get the "beta" from then

is it 64bit vista?

with vista, the extra ram would be useful (i believe the 32bit editions support up to 3gb, the 64bit alot more) in general use, to get a big performance kick in general i would add Q6600 first, and then when money is around, add another 1/2gb of RAM, then you will have a beast.

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[QUOTE="b0ssy"]where did u get the demo from?b0ssy

He didn't get the demo...reading comprehension FTW.

beta/demo basically same thing in my books so i just use whichever word

where did he get the "beta" from then

i hope u dont mind me correcting u but beta and demo are complete different things......a beta is run by the game devs in order for the participants to give the devs a feedback. feedback on the glitches, optimization and hell loads of other things. some of them are closed beta and some of them are open...i believe the crysis beta was a closed one so very few ppl knew abt it and whoever did, were the first ones to get holds of the serial keys, which from what i have heard were all given out in less than 40 hours. the client is still available to get frm various sites but u need the serial key to actually play it. on the other hand a a demo is released b4 the game to showcase the game to all ppl around the world so tht they know what to expect frm the game...by this time the game has gone through a lot of fixing. but it doesnt mean this is EXACTLY what ur goona get frm the full game coz even though the there arent any active beta participants....there are the devs whowill still try to do ther best to fix up the smallest possible glitch there is. i hope u knw the difference between a beta and a demo now.

EDIT: as far as this thread goes...from my personal understanding of the game.....a q6600 will be better than any duo core out there, but u have a e6600 which is the best duo core out there.....from what i am guessing if u upgrade from e6600 to a q6600 u will have a gain of 7-10 fps which in my opinion could be really good coz u want to play on vista. but if u were on xp then i would not recommend it coz the game will have higher fps compared to vista given tht the pc is same. so if u were getting 35 fps on vista then on xp with the same settings u would expect to get around 40-45 fps.

[QUOTE="b0ssy"][QUOTE="shanelevy"]

[QUOTE="b0ssy"]where did u get the demo from?dmn_fox

He didn't get the demo...reading comprehension FTW.

beta/demo basically same thing in my books so i just use whichever word

where did he get the "beta" from then

i hope u dont mind me correcting u but beta and demo are complete different things......a beta is run by the game devs in order for the participants to give the devs a feedback. feedback on the glitches, optimization and hell loads of other things. some of them are closed beta and some of them are open...i believe the crysis beta was a closed one so very few ppl knew abt it and whoever did, were the first ones to get holds of the serial keys, which from what i have heard were all given out in less than 40 hours. the client is still available to get frm various sites but u need the serial key to actually play it. on the other hand a a demo is released b4 the game to showcase the game to all ppl around the world so tht they know what to expect frm the game...by this time the game has gone through a lot of fixing. but it doesnt mean this is EXACTLY what ur goona get frm the full game coz even though the there arent any active beta participants....there are the devs whowill still try to do ther best to fix up the smallest possible glitch there is. i hope u knw the difference between a beta and a demo now.

EDIT: as far as this thread goes...from my personal understanding of the game.....a q6600 will be better than any duo core out there, but u have a e6600 which is the best duo core out there.....from what i am guessing if u upgrade from e6600 to a q6600 u will have a gain of 7-10 fps which in my opinion could be really good coz u want to play on vista. but if u were on xp then i would not recommend it coz the game will have higher fps compared to vista given tht the pc is same. so if u were getting 35 fps on vista then on xp with the same settings u would expect to get around 40-45 fps.

The e6600 is far from the "best" dual core processor out there; it's just the most economical.

If you were to sell your e6600 and buy a q6600 for ~$350, I think that would give you the best cost to performance increase.

i was gona buy a q6600 whean i read it's not true quad core wtf / man stick with the e6600IQT786

i seriously doubt you will get much performance gain with a new cpu. And even if you do are you going to pay lots of $$ for 3 frames per second gain?

My e6420 clocked at 3.2 does not get a work out at all. I would need 8800 ultra sli before my cpu would be limiting my fps. And thats on stock cooling.I can easily get to 3.6 stable at 1.42v.

Cpu power is way ahead of gpu right now. Quad cores wont really be very useful in gaming until Alan Wake comes out.

who cares i do i want native quad i heard amd is gona ship out native tri core and native quad with l3 cach know i want that unless intel come up with somthing betterIQT786

k, ill just wait for optimisation then :p

but, its a pity the crysis demo got delayed a monty, imo probably cos halo 3 comes out the same day.