I'm having some problems with my fps

[mike420]

My rig

E7200 Core 2 duo 2.53ghz oc'd to 3.8ghz
CrossfireX Ati hd 4870's at 1gb a piece
4 Gb kingston Mushkin 5-5-5
P5q pro turbo mobo
Vendetta 2 120mm Cooler
In an Antec 900
Running Windows XP Home

When I first started playing crysis warhead I was getting on average 30 fps with highs of mid 70's and lows of 10! At the time I was running my cpu stock at 2.53ghz and a few people had suggested that it was my cpu that was creating a severe bottle kneck. Upon overclocking the cpu to 3.8ghz where it is currently sitting I have not seen any improvement in the fps.

p.s. I'm running the game on the second highest settings across the board(gamer) with 4xAA

Any help is much appreciated.

 

[AzN]

2nd highest setting? So gamer settings? What resolution?

Crysis is not CPU limited with core 2 duo. It's GPU lmited. 30fps in warhead with 4870 sounds normal to me.

 

[BlackBabyJesus]

Why are you expecting great performance in the Crysis games. Even the new 5870 card struggles with that.

 

[Narynan]

Yeah, raising your CPU might have helped. It didn't. Sorry to say that Crysis is a pretty bad mofo to run. It's not yourhardware dood.... its the game.

 

[dguy6789]

4870 crossfire should have no problems what so ever running the game on gamer with AA. A single 4870 can run the game perfectly fine on gamer without AA. Something's wrong somewhere, it's not normal.

 

[Narynan]

Ok to say the least you MIGHT be running a little low. However,

http://www.hardwarecanucks.com...formance-review-9.html

Yes, these are 512's but i only looked up one review. I dont know what reso you are playing on, but it makes a diff. Your looking at a min of 30fps is what you SHOULD be getting. And thats a 1920x1080 w/o AA.

But before we can go further, we need more system info.