As far as the gfx card is concerned, I'm reluctant to get the HD 4850 by HIS or Force 3d manufacturers since both are asian basedsquall_nemesis

Aren't all Nvidia and ATI partners from Taiwan ? Afaik all the video cards are made in Taiwan and shipped to other parts of the world. Or are you worried that if a problem occurs you have to ship your card to Asia ? All the reference HD4800 cards are built by ATI, the only differences are the sticker and the warranty length.

Are you using Vista ? It could be a Vista problem, look at the 4th and 9th post on that thread for a possible fix.

Edit: Oops my bad, not the same problem. It's only on the last post that there's mention of the atikmdag.dll file.

And Core 1 is hotter than core 0.bungie93

Same for me, Core1 is always 2-3C hotter than Core0. But a 10C difference is kinda strange.

[QUOTE="Isbrealiompie"][QUOTE="domke13"][QUOTE="Isbrealiompie"]

[QUOTE="domke13"]Have u by any chance forced AA or AF in nvidia drivers?JP_Russell

yes I do would talking the AF off help things?

Most likely, yes. Try it and report back.

ok im up to 26FPS now

That's about right, then.

I think he should be getting more than 26 fps. They (Anandtech) used DX10 and had the shaders at very high, and I don't think the CPU they used is a big advantage over his E8400.

A Power Supply is there - RAIDMAX 450W Silent PeformanceCrysisHeir

Not a good one, it doesn't even have a pci-e connector. You were warned.

Far Cry 2 will not nearly punish your hardware as much as Crysis:

Minimum requirements
CPU: Pentium 4 3.2 Ghz, Pentium D 2.66 Ghz, AMD Athlon 64 3500+ or better
RAM: 1 GB
Video card: NVidia 6800 or ATI X1650 or better
Shader Model 3 required
256 Mb of graphic memory
Media reader: DVD-ROM
Hard drive space: ~12 Gig or HD space. (tbd)

Recommended
CPU: Intel Core 2 Duo Family, AMD 64 X2 5200+, AMD Phenom or better
RAM: 2 GB
Video card: NVidia 8600 GTS or better, ATI X1900 or better
512 Mb of graphic memory
Sound: 5.1 sound card recommended

Supported Video cards:
NVidia 6800, NVidia 7000 series, 8000 series, 9000 series, 200 series. 8800M and 8700M supported for laptops. ATI X1650 - 1950 series , HD2000 series , HD3000 series , HD4000 series

well i patched the game and I'm getting 24FPS on the benchmark now at the same settings.Isbrealiompie

That's better, but not nearly at its full potential yet.