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Battlefield 3 Question.

Unless benchmarks show BF3 to run significantly faster on newer processors over the LGA775 45nm quads I wouldn't bother with a CPU upgrade just yet - in most cases my Q9550 @ 3.825-4gig and GTX470 SLI puts up pretty much identical numbers to other people with i7/SB at around 3.6-4.2gig CPUs and 470 SLI in the popular benchmarks and games.
 
opethdisciple said:
Ohhh I hope so! ( I wont be dissapointed if it doesnt.... I wouldnt be suprised if it cant...)

Iv been thinking of a cpu/mobo/ram/ssd upgrade my self (£500)

But I dont know if it would get any more performance out of my 5870.....

I too was thinking about BF3. BC2 like processor power, so Im going to assume that BF3 will be the same.

But in that case, its worth waiting for BF3 to come out and taking a look at the new Intel chips out at the end of the year.
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My quad 2.33ghz runs bad company smooth as butter,the only games i struggle with is shift 2 and starcraft 2 on max settings with my current cpu,i dont want to have the bf2 problems of last loading in and get in the game and all the jets/choppers/tanks/jeeps are all gone by the one man rambo players lol:(
 
antran said:
just grab another 5870, xfire 5870 should be more then enough to play bf3.
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Hmm Im allergic to xfire since my 3870x2.

I specifically went for a single card to get away from xfire.

Twin 5870's sounds good tho.... but my card is the 2Gb version, so I would have to source one of those really.

I dont think Im ever going to go multi card again, not untill the whole multicard architecture, is completly evolved beyound needing profiles etc......
 
ATI 3xxx series crossfire was really really not a good example of how multi GPU works :S though things still aren't perfect its pretty liveable with these days.
 
BF2 when it was released was not easy to max out. I would expect nothing less from BF3. They haven't waited this long to release a sequel to not make it one of the best looking games out. On a 64 player map you might expect it to be using near the same power as crysis. That is what I heard, might I point out I said near not the same. Either way, 470 sli should be fine. Is one of the reasons I upgraded to 480 sli.

One thing is certain, it will be a demanding game for the cpu just as much as the gpu likely. I wouldn't be shocked if we saw it go past 4gb either. BF2 can get mighty close to 4gb.
 
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Single 5850 here, will be adding a second in time for BF3. I suspect it will run very nicely after the obligatory CF profile hotfix ;)
 
opethdisciple said:
Hmm Im allergic to xfire since my 3870x2.

I specifically went for a single card to get away from xfire.

Twin 5870's sounds good tho.... but my card is the 2Gb version, so I would have to source one of those really.

I dont think Im ever going to go multi card again, not untill the whole multicard architecture, is completly evolved beyound needing profiles etc......
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You should.

I had a 5970, wasn't too happy with it. Might have been drivers. Got 2 x 6970's, and I have to say, it runs silky smooooth. Very, very happy with them.
 
He went on to claim that the computer that will be able to run BF3 on Full settings has yet to be Built.

that statement suggest that 2 470's in sli wont max the game out. When i say max the game out i mean max settings with solid 60fps or above.
 
I think the point is this... one should be content with what they have, as long as the experience is enjoyable etc...

What Im trying to say is that a single 5870 should be able to deliver an enjoyable experience from BF3, even if it cant max the settings.

SLI 470's should defo be able to deliver a nice experience, even if it cant max the game out.

I think its a goosd thing that a game on max settigns is superior to any hardware, as it pushes technologocal advancs further and faster.

Having only purchased my 5870 in September 2010, I cant justify another gpu upgrade, but if a new cpu and ssd (mobo & dd3 as consequence) can push the performance of my 5870 even just by a little, then it would be well worth it and I will be in a good position to uograde to windows 8 and maybe a Dx12 gpu once it comes out, assuming Windows 8 will push Dx to 12....

Considering games have hardly tapped in to Dx11 yet, it would be nothing more than a marketing gimick, well see, but as it comes out in 2012, I wouldnt be supprised if Microsoft renamed DX11.1 to DX12 just for sales.
 
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dmxdex2020 said:
He went on to claim that the computer that will be able to run BF3 on Full settings has yet to be Built.

that statement suggest that 2 470's in sli wont max the game out. When i say max the game out i mean max settings with solid 60fps or above.
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When crysis came out tri or quad sli didn't exist.

If this game can't be maxed with 4 590 GTXs then it's badly optimised.

The leap cannot be that big
 
Sorry to hijack the thread, but i got a question and its not worth opening a new thread.

is a single 6950 be enough to run all games smoothly at 1900x1200 res with everything maxed out ?
 
Well I played metro with my pc in sig at 1920x1200 max settings, but DOF was off and I used AAA rather than the msaa (msaa was too much)

Currently playing shogun 2 at MAX settings 1920x1200 I got 19fps... I turned the settings down a little bit and its running at around 40fps.....

If your looking at getting a 6950 get a 2gb version.

So far the last two games I'v played have needed or can make use of 2Gb of ram.

DA2 withthe high res texture pack needed it, and Shogun 2 is also utilising more than 1Gb.

Dont be under the illusion that a 6950 will crush all games etc.... but ot will manage max settings in 90% of titles... and in the ones it cant, it will still be at such a high IQ the game still looks great.

The 6950 2Gb is a nice balance between price/perforamance.

But it will also depend on your cpu.
 
Hazkirby said:
When crysis came out tri or quad sli didn't exist.

If this game can't be maxed with 4 590 GTXs then it's badly optimised.

The leap cannot be that big
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Can't use 4x 590 in SLI.

dmxdex2020 said:
Well im going for 2 470s tri or quad is too much and doesnt scale aswell as sli.
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Tri is about as good as is worth it with 470s, you need to run at resolutions where they would lack the VRAM to perform well to get decent scaling out the 4th one.
 
opethdisciple said:
Well I played metro with my pc in sig at 1920x1200 max settings, but DOF was off and I used AAA rather than the msaa (msaa was too much)

Currently playing shogun 2 at MAX settings 1920x1200 I got 19fps... I turned the settings down a little bit and its running at around 40fps.....

If your looking at getting a 6950 get a 2gb version.

So far the last two games I'v played have needed or can make use of 2Gb of ram.

DA2 withthe high res texture pack needed it, and Shogun 2 is also utilising more than 1Gb.

Dont be under the illusion that a 6950 will crush all games etc.... but ot will manage max settings in 90% of titles... and in the ones it cant, it will still be at such a high IQ the game still looks great.

The 6950 2Gb is a nice balance between price/perforamance.

But it will also depend on your cpu.
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As a reference:

I can max out shogun on a 480gtx at 1900x1200 with 4xaa and 16xAF. simply haven't tryed any more aa but I've not seen any indication of any slow down so I would suspect I could go higher. This is also with ultra sized units etc. Maybe it's because the 480 has 1.5gb ram.

Yet to plug my second 480GTX in so I shall maybe get fraps running and do some comparisons when I get around to it.


I would also agree with you, people are presuming these cards are more powerful then they are. I would suggest that if you can't max shogun you won't max BF3. BF2 required the top hardware at the time.
 
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