Crysis 2

[Madaz]

the plan would be to get 2 6870's eventually

thanks for that link

[SoFreshSoClean]

Yeah that would be sweet, 4850's are old technology too, more support in the future for 6 series cards + DX11

[Madaz]

i have also been thinking of one of those simple water cooling blocks

like this

<<Click

[Bronx]

dont get simple water cooling, EVER, buy a complete proper kit. ive had a little kit on mine, which cost me 120bucks, and my temps went up 5 degrees.............

plus you cant O/C for shits on those things. buy a good silent fan cooler, pref one with 6-9 heat pipes and a nice 120mm fan. wont ever hear it.

and yes, you can adjust all the settings via the config, but it will make the game A LOT harder to run.

thats the main reason why the game runs soo smoothly, its pretty dimmed down even on the highest mode.

if you use one of the lower settings, it will change it to dx9 to run even smoother.

[Madaz]

do you have a link to said cooler

[Bronx]

this set is good:

http://www.iibuy.com.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=30813_2428_2432&products_id=88476

and also:

http://www.iibuy.com.au/index.php?main_page=product_info&cPath=30813_2428_2432&products_id=75416

the alphacool is a very very quet kit, the pump is a a in tank pump, so you will barely hear it, but its very hard to get support from alphacool.

my advice is get the Swiftech one, its a lot better, but pump can be a bit more louder.

i have the same pump, it is still more quiet than my air cooler, but i can still just hear my PC.

i run a alphacool radiator, and reservoir, a heatkiller 3.0 cpu cooler, and the swiftech pump. got my cpu OC to 4ghz on 1.32 volt (i5 870) and i hit a max temp of 68dC on a normal day, 25-30dC.

but i do admit my radiator is the weakest one, i only have 2 fans and a double rad.

one last thing to consider:

you will need to be very nifty at fitting it all in your case, water cooling is not for the faint hearted.

buy a proper kit or dont buy one at all.

alot of modding was included in my pc case.

also if your ever interested, check this out:

Frozen Q Liquid Fusion

i will buy one in the near future when i have the cash to waste

[Madaz]

thanks Bronx

my case is the thermaltake V9 so it already supports liquid cooling i wasn't sold in the idea just thought for a little more quiet and to drop my ambient room temp in summer

[Bronx]

liquid cooling is only good for 2 things, overclocking and showing off, and i do both

[SoFreshSoClean]

I am probably overly paranoid, but I can't stand the idea of water in my computer, knowing my luck something would leak and result in fire/death

I have a TRUE 120 CPU cooler, it works great

[EeLeYe]

Bought this today. Will see how it goes. Looking forward to see how it'll run on my new nvidia gtx570. Yes, I finally bought a new graphics card. Should be sweeeeeeeeeetaa.

[Bronx]

you will love the gtx570, it runs crysis 2 maxxed out.. and its sooooo quiet even under load, i cannot hear it even over my watercooling setup

buy the most powerful clamps and the best hoses for watercooling, and if your lucky enough to have a BTX case you have nothing to worry about. besides relocating your PSU

[SoFreshSoClean]

Just got an xbox controller for my pc, booted up this game and to my surprise everything is already mapped out perfectly... cant half tell its a port haha.

Now this might just be me.. but I think I like playing it better with the gamepad!

[syfon]

I've been playing it on my pc for a few days now. Great game, extremely difficult on the hardest difficulty. Have to really use stealth and play carefully or you die with 1-2 bullets.

All in all, great game, really enjoying it.

[Bronx]

finished on 2nd highest stage, was pretty easy on that, was expecting more difficult, will now do it on hardest..... hope i can manage

[Dani Boi]

I'm playing it through on supersoldier (hardest difficulty) but I find it pretty easy tbh. One of the nanosuit modules extends your stealth time by about x2 so you can just stealth, when it runs out hide, wait to recharge then stealth again.

But yeah you do die in a couple of hits so you have to take the guys out one by one if you want to survive... unless you a stealth whore like me