New Gamer System - How will Crysis treat it?

I'm building a new system, since my last one is on its last legs. Any suggestions? How will Crysis treat it?

Case Thermaltake Armor+ Black Steel Case[VH6000BWS]
PSU Thermaltake 1200W Tough Power Active PFC Cable Management
Memory Corsair 4GB QUAD2X4096-8500C5DF (4x1GB) PC-8500 (1066MHz) Q2X4096-85C5DF
Motherboard Asus Striker II Formula 780i Socket 775
Video Card MSI 8800 Ultra Overclocked 768MB 660/2300MHz
Sound Card CREATIVE SOUND BLASTER X-FI FATAL1TY CHAMPION PCI SOUND CARD
CPU Intel Core 2 Extreme QX9650 Quad Core
Monitor SAMSUNG 24" 245B LCD MONITOR
Hard Drive 1 WESTERN DIGITAL 150GB 10,000 RPM
Hard Drive 2 Western Digital 500G 16MB 7200RPM
Hard Drive 3 Western Digital 500G 16MB 7200RPM
DVD Drive Sony BWU200S HD Ready Internal Blu-ray Burner

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That PSU is total overkill unless you want to go down the Tri SLI route.It is some build if you're able to afford it.You will be able to play crysis all high on 1650x1080(Maybe).It is a really demanding game cause @ 1920x1080 all very high on a tri sli system with an overclocked QX9650 will only get around 40 fps.

Don't disrespect Crysis. Put it in DX10 mode at 1920x1200 with 16xAA maxed out and it will obliterate (even) that PC.

Like Obama at an NRA convention

your pc can be crushed by crysis on one video card

crysis is so powerful ity made my pc overwork and blow up on medium settings

ahhh good old crysis

If you desire to obliterate hard earned money to be able to play one game thats a good move. I would wait for the newer hardware to come out soon and waste your money on that instead.

The truth is, the top end is what it is, the best there is to offer for now. Months down the road you will be looking at charts and see your very expensive hardware hovering somewhere in the middle of the pack waiting to get pushed off of the chart by the next released hardware.

Like Deadboots said, from a sensible standpoint its best to pick bang for the buck and make it work unless you simply enjoy sending your money out the back door as soon as you get it.

If you do, then I will email you my mailing address and I will help you get rid of it on my wish list from Newegg...

MSI 8800 Ultra? mmmmm why?

How about EVGA 8800 GTS 512mb G92? (comes with a free Crysis game)

what the two guys above me said... wait for nehalem... and wait a bit before blowing so much cash on a pc... it;s not a price-effective setup at all

Thanks all for your comments and suggestions. I was expecting some of them. No one is going to like all you suggest but hey if we all thought the same we would be all walking around in grey jumpsuits and eating soylent green.

Good points about the vid cards. As to the quad, I think I can get a good deal on it and hope to not have to replace the machine for awhile, even if it won't be top of the line after 6 months.

Instead of going down the nvidia route, why don't you try going amd with an overclocked 3870x2. It delivers the performance of an ultra at a lower price.

I'd get the 22 inch Sammy - you'll see much better fps in Crysis than native rez on that 24". The Ultra can't be recommended. I'd rather get one of the ATI x2 cards. (Crysis maybe not being the best benchy for these cards though.. But d'ya just play Crysis?? Nope - you'll play it once, maybe twice, at a push, delete in and put it in some dusty cupboard)
Ryan.

That a look at this hard drive a tad cheaper and it has 32mb cache instead of 16mb:

Seagate Barracuda ST3500320AS 500GB 7200.11 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s Hard Drive

I would say get an E8400, P35 sysbo a EVGA GeForce 8800GTS (G92) 512MB gpu and call it a day. Later this year the new chipset from Intel will be released making "everything" obsolete.

Save you money for later and then make a decision based on the technology this is coming out later this year, even though with technology it's kinda like a cat chasing it's tail, you can wait till it catches it before you buy but guess what... "IT AINT GONNA HAPPEN".

Just use your money WISELY and in this case there are better decisions on equipment to purchase.

Yeah, If you HAVE to go quad core, the Q6600 G0 can be overclocked to 3.0 pretty easy. And it costs about 1/4 the price of the QX series.

Everyone is right about getting a G92 or two of them as well: they will absolutely kill a single Ultra. Seriously, if you are going to throw around $600, wait for the 9800GX2.

And the Radeon 3870 X2 would be better than the Ultra as well.

well. the game box will surely fit into the armor case, so my guess is crysis will be happy

Like Ironnads said get the 22'' Samsung and don't buy an Ultra. A GTX is just fine. With the money that you'll save, you can make your computer watercooled. Then Crysis will run perfectly. Read my sig for my specs. With my pc I run Crysis at 1680x1050 no AA, everything very high except for PostProcessing at High and Shadows at High and it never drops under 24fps even at the snow areas. GPU test results in 29fps average and CPU test in 40fps. All of these in Vista Ultimate 32bit.

These 2 settings when set to VeryHigh can kill performance. You'll almost not notice the visual difference and in my opinion motion blur makes AA useless, unless of course instead of playing you sit there gazeing the environment :-)

With good watercooling components you'll probably achieve higher clocks than mine. My eVGA GTX couldn't run stable at anything over 626MHz GPU and now runs at 756 completely stable without artifacts after 75hours looping 3dMark06(without CPU tests that give the card cooldown time) and prime95 with 4 cores running at background.

Doing so, a 3870x2 will not beat you in almost any game, even if crossfire scaling is 80%.

Thanks for all the advice. Here is what I put together. Got a few deals on the way. What do you think?

Case Thermaltake Armor+ Black Steel Case[VH6000BWS]
Antec 850 Qattro
Memory Corsair 4GB TWIN2X4096-6400C5
Motherboard Gigabyte GA-X38T-DQ6 (rev. 1.0)
Video Card ASUS Radeon HD 3870 X2 (1GB)
Sound Card CREATIVE SOUND BLASTER X-FI FATAL1TY CHAMPION PCI SOUND CARD
CPU Intel Core 2 Extreme Q6600 Quad Core
Hard Drive 1 WESTERN DIGITAL 150GB 10,000 RPM
Hard Drive 2 samsung 500G 16MB 7200RPM
DVD Drive BLU RAY PIONEER BDCS02

I did have a problem with the motherboard.
I had to load vista 64 as IDE before setting up AHCI. Vista then loaded up fine. Then I tried to update the BIOs. Big mistake. I got the recycling error that everyone seems to be getting. It starts up for a couple of seconds and shuts down and starts up again. tried everything in the book. No luck. Support pretty slow. The retailer however was great. Told them the problem, they gave me a new board. Now all works well.

Crysis is purring along on the high settings too.

Thanks again for your advice.