Budget build for BF3 at 1920x1080?

Kaiju

Kaiju

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[email protected] (using stock cooler as no OC due to CPU being locked)
Biostar TP67XE Motherboard (cheapest P67 SLI board I could find)
MSI GTX560Ti Graphics Card
Kingston Hyper-X 8GB RAM
Crucial M4 64GB SSD
Corsair HX620W PSU

I read on HardOCP the i3 gets the same FPS in BF3 as the i5 and i7 CPU's and it's predominantly GPU orientated.

So what's your opinion?

Will I be able to run the above at 1920x1080 with at least high settings?
 
Kaiju said:
[email protected] (using stock cooler as no OC due to CPU being locked)
Biostar TP67XE Motherboard (cheapest P67 SLI board I could find)
MSI GTX560Ti Graphics Card
Kingston Hyper-X 8GB RAM
Crucial M4 64GB SSD
Corsair HX620W PSU

I read on HardOCP the i3 gets the same FPS in BF3 as the i5 and i7 CPU's and it's predominantly GPU orientated.

So what's your opinion?

Will I be able to run the above at 1920x1080 with at least high settings?
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You should have no problems running Battlefield 3 on high at 1080p with your setup and because your GPU is pretty decent, you should get between 40-50fps.

I'm running an Phenom X4 955 with a HD5770 and Battlefield 3 runs between 30-40fps with everything set to Ultra (shadows, effects set to high with AA off).
 
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Kaiju said:
[email protected] (using stock cooler as no OC due to CPU being locked)
Biostar TP67XE Motherboard (cheapest P67 SLI board I could find)
MSI GTX560Ti Graphics Card
Kingston Hyper-X 8GB RAM
Crucial M4 64GB SSD
Corsair HX620W PSU

I read on HardOCP the i3 gets the same FPS in BF3 as the i5 and i7 CPU's and it's predominantly GPU orientated.

So what's your opinion?

Will I be able to run the above at 1920x1080 with at least high settings?
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if i was you i would go for a cheaper athlon 2 x645 build with ddr3 ram. then buy a 6870x2 gpu. its about 1.5 times as good as gtx 580 on bf3. so it would give you a better peformance alltogether and probably for about £500 all together.
My spec is
phenom 2 940
6950 1gb version
4gb 1066 ddr2 ram

Im getting about 60 fps with a mix of high and med shadows. no aa at 1680 x 1050

im looking at downgrading cpu to free up cash to buy one of those beasts (6870x2)
they look mouth wateringly good

Forgot to say the 560ti is about on par with my gpu but might struggle at 1080p
 
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Why are you putting a solid state drive in a "budget" build? You don't need one, they're a luxury. Don't skimp on anything else in order to get an SSD. You'd be much better off getting a better graphics card.
 
SheepBeast said:
Why are you putting a solid state drive in a "budget" build? You don't need one, they're a luxury. Don't skimp on anything else in order to get an SSD. You'd be much better off getting a better graphics card.
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Was just about to ask this very question too. I would drop the ssd and get an i5 2500K & Z68 mobo instead.
 
bobbyspangles said:
What resolution?
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Lol should have mentioned that I game at 1080p.

Most of the games that I play are console ports and they are developed on tech that is 5-6 year old so any modern pc should be able to run these games at 1080p @ 60fps - in fact, most of the games that have been ported well runs at 1080p at high settings on my setup inc Rage, Space Marine, Dead Island, Portal 2, Dead Space 1 & 2, Gears of war etc.


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SheepBeast said:
Why are you putting a solid state drive in a "budget" build? You don't need one, they're a luxury. Don't skimp on anything else in order to get an SSD. You'd be much better off getting a better graphics card.
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With the price of hard drives currently, getting an ssd instead is not such a luxury!
 
Cheers guys, almost made the mistake of getting a budget motherboard and CPU.

Thanks OCUK!

Will get an SSD later.
 
Kaiju said:
Cheers guys, almost made the mistake of getting a budget motherboard and CPU.
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I hope you mean you are stretching your budget and go for a 2500K build, not an AMD build for a new system...cause that would be the biggest mistake you make. It's no doubt the Phenom II X4 are still capable CPU, but it is not as fast as the i3 2100 in general usage and gaming, twice the power consumption at load (65W TDP vs 125W TDP) and much higher temp/waste heat generated due to the higher power consumption. Also, the upgrade path is very grim considering new AMD flagship Bulldozer CPU is even slower and higher power consumption than its predecessor the Phenom II series.

That's nothing wrong with going with the i3 2120...but what you should do is get a Z68 motherboard, so it will allow you to drop a i5 2500K onto it as well as give your the ability to overclock it in the future. At the moment, there isn't really much game that i3 2100/i3 2120 would bottleneck a single GPU graphic card.

Just grab this motherboard with the i3 2100 or i3 2120, and you are set for future upgrade path to the i5 2500K/i7 2600K:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-364-GI&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990

or if you want to be even more future proof, go for this Gen3 board instead, which has PCI-E 3.0, as well as support for Crossfire/SLI at x8/x8 (should you considering getting another GTX560Ti to SLI for graphic performance boss in the future):
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=MB-191-MS&groupid=701&catid=5&subcat=1990
 
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