Crysis runs smooth (no actual framerate measured) with everything high at 1280x1024 and 8xfaa. "very high" requires DX10 ergo something beyond XP.

I don't know if the game is using EAX, the menu doesn't mention it. It all sounded impressive and environmentally immersive. Edit: apparently that's software mode, I need to make a system.cfg with:

con_restricted = 0
s_reverbtype = 1
r_displayinfo = 1
r_VSync = 1
d3d9_TripleBuffering = 1

(I've added some extra fun stuff)

I'll try that.

This seems to be turning into the low budget xp rocket I was hoping (minus the omniflop thingy), and I still have a pile of stuff I can try to sell. Which will be a challenge.

I am looking for am3 or am3+ motherboards with floppy controller and 2 available pci slots when using gpu. The alternative is keeping the Dell pc around. In the attic...

I'm looking around to find something cheap locally.

And when that's done, sell all my other amd mobo's and processors from this project...

Tonight I'll pick up a Gigabyte GA-770TA-UD3 to replace the ASUS M4A89GTD PRO so I can use a floppy drive.

Only one pciex 16x slot, but at least it will run in 16x instead of 8x now, and SLI under xp for xp games like Crysis or below makes little sense. So I'll take it, and 4x pci slots might prove handy in the future.

I'll just try to install the gigabyte chipset drivers and see how the system runs (crysis benchmark 😀 ). In case of problems, it will be a fresh xp install.

Allright, I've got it at home. It came with an X6 1050T and a huge Scythe Mugen 2 rev B cooler setup that assumes slightly more rear ventilation than my case has, but then again my case has a side trumpet leading towards the cooler that it does not assume to be available. A long way of saying the cooler would better have blown from the top instead of the side for my case, but will work as-is. At least it will have ample fresh air to cool its top, while still a lot of holes to blow through at the back. And I'm not overclocking the 1090T even though with the BIOS issues I have had it run at 3700 MHz for a while. 😁

After rebuilding my XP rocket, this will leave me with enough stuff for a complete Dell 9150 and 2 more combis of mobo, 6 core AMD, and a nice pair of RAM. I hope I'll be able to sell at least some of that. Yeah, you read that right: I now have two X6 processors and an FX 6 core. I did not intend to, but here we are. Wanting to build 1 PC so having about 4.