I'd agree with that. The best way to up your frame rate in Crysis with high detail is to set either Shaders or shadows to Medium (or both), whilst leaving the rest of the settings high. Turning either of those down to medium bags you a 50% performance boost. No PC can play Crysis completely at ease, but you can certainly run a decent resolution with the HD3870 on high detail. My card can run Crysis at 800x600 smoothly on high detail, and since the 3870 is about 80% faster than my X1900, I reckon 1280x1024 should be playable. If you use a large/high definition monitor you may want to lower some of the detail settings.
According to the specs for my new PC, can you give me an approximate price? Because, i am planning to buy these products in Taiwan. Will it be much cheaper there?
I'm not sure that it will be that much cheaper in Asia, but for that upgrade on newegg it's about $900. I dont know what version of vista you will be getting, nor what kind of ram. This is a great bundle: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820220267&Tpk=patriot That's on my list for my upgrade. Fast DDR2 800 for only 125.
I have always wanted to play company of heroes, company of heroes opposing forces and medal of honor airborne on full high settings. Will my system play it?
Yes, if your computer can play Crysis with nice frames on high settings, then it can play any game out there.
I have a last question. Will I have any sound problems with games like medal of honor airborne? If so, which sound card should i get?
not really if u get one of those mobos it has a good onboard sound card so no worry but if u do hav problems just buy one
will i need to get more ram to run vista, download games, burn stuff and playing games while retaining the performance of the pc?
if you're doing all that at once, it would be useful to have 3 or 4GB. That, however is the limit of any 32-bit OS (and therefore any useful OS) so getting any more than 4GB is pointless.
If you have money to burn, then Ultimate is ok. However, Vista Ultimate has features that people would never use, and I dont think it is worth the extra $100. After reading some reviews, Vista Home Premium was the winner for gamers. Since you are getting 4GB of ram, you will need to get the 64 bit version of Vista, since the 32 bit version will only use up to 2GB of ram.
I'd strongly advise against the 64-bit version of Vista usually, you'll have an absolute headache of a time trying to install anything other than the bare essential drivers. Doesn't the 32-bit Vista support up to 4 gigs now?
I quote from Paul Thurrott's Windows super site, on 64-bit: "Vista Home Basic (and Home Basic N) support up to 8 GB of RAM, compared to 4 GB for all 32-bit versions of Vista"
