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Originally Posted by arcadeplayer987
Crysis will kill dual-core 
I assure you that E6600 with a strong video card like 8800GTS or x2900XT will max Crysis. But you can go if you want with quadcore for 5 fps more |
Everything I've read so far indicates its been written specifically to use all available cores. So try running on an E2xxx or E4xxx or X2 which the majority of the population has, it'll be a struggle on a mid level or budget system. The 320mb 8800GTS doesn't look like it will be able to deal with all the eyecandy turned on either, the 640mb will do it.
http://www.anandtech.com/printarticle.aspx?i=2926
So before you start laughing, consider this. Look at what the benches say for FEAR and Oblivion, now think about how much more improved the gfx is for Crysis. Now look again at the benchmarks for the 8800gts for FEAR and Oblivion with all the options on, what do you think will happen with Crysis? also additionally you're pretty much locked into getting that white elephant of an o/s Vista in order to take full advantage of dx10.