Why do people insist Crysis is badly coded. Its an incredibly detailed game looking better than anything by a distance, and as such it runs at a slower fps than other games that don't look as good, thats no different to every other game. People, some specifically, got caught up in the whole "optimised for quad core" crap the guys behind it said in the hype to release. Every single game maker hypes up ANY feature the game can use no matter if it needs it or not. IT will infact use all cores, most games can be load-spread across all cores now, this is all you need to claim that its optimised for quad cores by running a few different threads. Anything you buy has people overhype everything it can do. Games like Crysis don't, and wouldn't use 100% cpu load on all 4 cores, why would it need to, it doesn't make it badly optimised, it would be badly optimised if it did use 100% of all 4 cores.
Saying all that, its not the best game ever, but frankly who cares either way. How many people play a game and play it over and over and over until the next hardest on hardware game comes around. We've mostly all played it, and won't play it again so soon so its irrelevant.
Its a more powerful card no doubt, but very very few people will see any of that new power. If you get 80fps in a game with a 9800gtx, and this gets 125fps, or 300fps, your game experience is unlikely to change in the slightest. However despite all that, do expect in the next year, maybe 18 months, that PC gaming will make fairly large strides forward. Consoles get released, become the focal point and PC's get a lot of ports with little extra in the way of options so not much power needed. But after 18months, to 2 years, game dev's start to shift back towards PC's as the graphical hardware shifts significantly in the PC favour. But why waste £500 now, when you can buy the same card if you want, in 6 months for half the price(maybe less depending on sales and 55nm shift) when the games that need it start to appear.
If anyone had any balls, they would COMPLETELY boycot the high end Nvidia cards, only buy ATi £150-250 cards and watch as game dev's hopefully ditch their TWIMTBP program, which would almost certainly see a significant drop in Nvidia's lead in performance, which would hopefully cause them to move to a new architechture and compete with ATi on price and tech, over paying off dev's.
I just can't stand Nvidia's business practice anymore, pay off dev's to optimise for them, price fixing, overcharging, lots of bullpap PR stunts, this latest crap of "cpu isn't important, Intel are scared, we're taking over" i mean, wtf. Half of their business practice seems to me, to reek of anti-competition law breaking attempts to keep ATi down.
i still have my 2900XT from slightly after launch, and I love it. At 720p 
ATM it's actually very quiet, even in a hot room with direct sunlight on the case itself. 
Actually, my whole machine is basically inaudiable; colour me impressed.
