just a follow up here, surprising the day i made this thread, i was on patrol and my rig died! right there, as i launched a torpedo at a huge pax liner
it crashed so hard, that when i attempted to recover it didnt even post. tried everything to bring it back. needless to say, i think the motherboard or the PSU is cooked. it was a very slightly over clocked AMD 4000+ running at about 2.8 with a 7900GT CO, the game looked stunning on that machine... getting around 25FPS on external harbor views with vertical sync on and AA around 4x
i completed my new build last night, Intel E6700 and a 8800 GTS... at 50FPS its like nothing ive ever seen before! the water, the high res skins, a whole new game. its truly amazing now with all the graphics to 100% and AA to 16x!
the 7900 is such a good card but i never expected a leap like this....