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Wil my PC be ok for a 5970?

I haven't played metro ( i still have 2 SoC games to play) but its supposed to run like a dog with all settings at high even at top end.
 
This is a pic of my old qx6800 rig i built 4 years ago and ran it clocked at 3.8 gig with sli 8800s then 4870x2

http://sites.google.com/site/dikdolan/wc0003.JPG

then 5870 then change to i7 and the i7 at stock speeds matches my old quad at 3.8

ive been overclocking and benchmarking that rig for 4 years and now have the i7 and xfire 5870s http://sites.google.com/site/ayupfromdik/files/crossfire.JPG?attredirects=0&d=1 and can tell you from my experience the i7 is much faster than the old quad and as you over clock the frame rates increase a lot.

Believe me or not its upto you i was just trying to be helpful and give advice on kit i own.
 
Sayso said:
I haven't played metro ( i still have 2 SoC games to play) but its supposed to run like a dog with all settings at high even at top end.
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Metro 2033 is probably the new Crysis: Looks nice but in order to run it at Max you're going to have to wait a few years :( It's so badly optimised that short of god nothing can run it at max comfortably
 
I know some of you may think I'm stupid (and maybe I am :)). I ordered the Saphire 5970 OC. I don't smoke or drink so what the hell LOL.
 
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metalmackey said:
Will Dirt 2 run as well in DX11 with the fancy stuff on as well as it does now in DX10?
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My XFX 5970 BE came yesturday, ive tried Bad Company and Just Cause 2 at max settings on a res of 1920x1200 and its just perfect. Im currently dl Dirt 2 and metro 2033 and im sure they will be the same:)
 
I may be off the mark here but, to those who say my CPU will bottleneck a 5970... Isn't the point of DirectCompute and OpenCL to take some of the load away from the CPU, or to do stuff a CPU is too slow for (even an I7)?
 
If a dx11 game needs more CPU power than say an average quad-core, surely they can load the extra needed onto the GPU? Or am I missing something?
 
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