Turns out the devs behind Crysis made its highest settings so hard to run is because they were thinking about the PC you would own in 2010, not the one your were stuck with in 2007

Crysis was such an infamously hard game to run at its max settings it became a meme, but apparently you weren’t even meant to do so at release.

Maybe if you played the game all the way back in 2007 on medium settings you can finally find out if your rig can run Crysis (I really imagine it can).

Last year, Jensen [Huang] for Nvidia announced a new GPU, and they said, ‘Yes, and it can run Crysis.'”