Crysis 2 on hardcore settings..

[smack323]

my friend is looking to be able to play crysis 2 on hardcore settings. he will need to upgrade the GPU and is leaning towards a nvidia 580. The rest of his system will have
AMD 9950 CPU, GA-ma770-ds3p ATX motherboard and 2GB of 1066 DDR2 RAM. Does anyone think that the CPU, MB or RAM would prevent Crysis 2 from running on hardcore or bottleneck the system?

[DragonFury]

on a single monitor he should not have much of an issue. in crysis 2 the differences between gamer, hardcore, and advanced is minimal. at least i did not see much of a difference between these settings. he may wanna overclock his cpu a bit to help out on his frame rates.

[smack323]

thats what i figured.. just needed to hear it from someone else, thanks!

[JMMD]

Should have at least 4GB of RAM for any modern system.

[Major_A]

The most important question here hasn't been asked. What is his monitor's max resolution? If he has an older 1280x1024 or 1440x900 then he will NOT need a GTX 580. Hell he can probably get away with most settings at max with a GTX 460. Crysis 2 isn't that demanding of a game. I am running everything on Extreme minus AA and HDR/AO on a GTX 260, see sig HAL9000.
http://forums.legitreviews.com/about33388.html
If nothing else that app should help.