either a top am2 or a top dual core platform will do the job, cpu wise.
i'm not yet prepared but i am sure as hell on my way there, Radeon x1950xt(now up for sale to facilitate the purchase of an 8800\r600)
Crysis expected mid 2007CES 007 If not later, CEO saysBy Fuad Abazovic in Las Vegas: Wednesday 10 January 2007, 11:32Click hereWE HAD the chance to talk to CEO of Crytek, an old friend called Cevet Yarill here in Vegas.This lad told us that Crysis, the highly-anticipated game we played today is still in pre-Alpha only. He expects it to go to Alpha by March, while the real beta and final version are pushed toward middle of 2007.The demo of the game we played showed a great potential. The game was running in DirectX 10 mode on 32-bit Vista. The code may still have some infant illnesses but it looks great on a G80, Geforce 8800 GTX, Core 2 duo and it provides 60 FPS+, at almost all times. It certainly works and looks much better than Rainbow [buggy] Six Vegas.The game is Cevet’s baby and he wants to make it as great as possible.We have a few more details about the game and a short video that we will try to share later as we are about to jump on another meeting. Crysis looks and feels great and we're looking forward to playing it in all its polished glory.But it looks like gamers won't be flocking to Vista from launch. There will be no games you can exclusively play on it. µ
Crysis up and running on Intel PenrynTasty quad-core actionBy Wily Ferret: Thursday 12 July 2007, 08:52AN UPLOAD to video sharing site You Tube shows off Crytek's drool-inducing Crysis up and running on Intel's pant-wettingly fast Penryn chip.In a video apparently taken at Crytek's headquarters, CEO Cervat Yerli talks about running the game on Penryn, a quad-core 45nm chip, saying that "A multithreaded CPU architecture also means multithreaded gameplay, in the sense that we have physics going on, AI going on... for us, more CPU cores means more interaction."That's great, but Cervat doesn't quite seem to grasp the significance of the demo, while the presenter raves about "Unreleased technology... on the most anticipated unreleased game!!!!" in a way that seems slightly camped up.The action looks smooth, even though it appears to be running just on a single-card 8800, although perhaps even Crytek can't get 8800 SLI to work properly on Vista.That said, Yerli suggested that "Crysis has been optimised for multithreading... and the same for multi-GPU and DX10", so perhaps he has faith after all. Check out the video for yourself by heading over .