What processor for my spec ?

[Bikerz]

Rember guys hes water cooled so could get some good clocks out of say a E9550. Id get a quad mate, people say quads arnt needed when gaming, but my machines uses all 4 cores in a few games (not fully stressed, but still 20-30% so im sure there is a slight (but noticable) difference in having a quad

 

[rjk]

nice machine - if you are happy with the performance then stay put

i personally think cobs suggestion [again] is the best choice

do you overclock?

if you ever feel like downsizing you could send me a 280 if you have it going spare... lol

 

[fromage]

Well not really happy with the performance in Crysis, even at 3.9GHz at full res with everything on very high on the 30inch Dell it won't run smoothly, but I hear lots of people have trouble unless they get some extreme edition quads.

 

[MiNxYyY]

Do you really have 3 x GTX 280's in Tri-SLI (£750-£900 quid of GPU?)

Wow you must be bonkers but enjoy

Jeez that machine must draw like 700w at full load

Do you really believe that ?

 

[Wiggins]

Strange, I ran Crysis with my [email protected] & 2.8Ghz and the frame rates are identical.

I always thought it was a monstrously GPU intesive game and as you have 3 280's, I cannot see whats holding you back.

Or am I wrong?

waits for the slating

 

[keyser]

if it doesn't change when you lower cpu clock then it's gpu limited

 

[PhoenixUK]

Crysis doesnt run smooth on 2560' res on ANYTHING, not even on a 4870x2 x2 in crossfire which beats the **** out of your GTX SLIx3.

Also you can't really get any much performance on the CPU side from a 3.9ghz dual.
You can get E8600 and clock it to 4.5-5 but I'm afraid the diff won't be that huge as pretty much no games use this kind of speed anyways. Getting quad core wont help you either.

Just stick with what you got I would say. Or get the E8600 if you really feel the need for it. Maybe get 3x 4870x2 if you need more power lol......... that would obviously improve your fps in crysis as its all gpu dependant .