£200 card for BF3 and MW3

[Game]

I think bf3 will be more optimised than badcompany 2 tbh it pays for dice and ea to make it reach a larger audience
if anything frosbite 2 is going to be more refined and streamlined but then I could be wrong

 

[smit101]

What card would you reccomend for 27" 1440p setup

I7 2600K
8 Gig ram

Depends on which games you play, and more importantly your budget. Judging by your cpu you favour the higher end of the market so I'd say a GTX 580 or AMD 6970. There are lots of other options though, but it's very difficult to recommend anything without more detail on what software/games you intend to run.

 

[Angel_Rex]

A mate of mine on bf3 alpha said his 4890 pcs+ card (all be it not dx11) runs bf3 at 1920*1080 perfect (60-80fps) with stuff on high.

He has a hex core amd and 8gig ram 24" screen.

I too have the pcs+ 4890 o/c so ill hold out and see how it plays.

 

[bhavv]

How come?

Because MSI and Gigabyte cards are far superior in terms of quality, warranty, cooling and noise.

VTX appear to be using lower cost PCB components to keep the board costs down.

They are also a subbrand of Powercolor, and their warranty service is atrocious in the UK.

 

[bindip1]

A mate of mine on bf3 alpha said his 4890 pcs+ card (all be it not dx11) runs bf3 at 1920*1080 perfect (60-80fps) with stuff on high.

He has a hex core amd and 8gig ram 24" screen.

I too have the pcs+ 4890 o/c so ill hold out and see how it plays.

I have 4890 and play at the same res. The alpha didnt not run at 60 - 80 FPS. More like 30 - 40 out side, inside the subway 50 - 60 FPS.

 

[logi-cat]

go for the 560ti

 

[Adster3000]

Because MSI and Gigabyte cards are far superior in terms of quality, warranty, cooling and noise.

VTX appear to be using lower cost PCB components to keep the board costs down.

They are also a subbrand of Powercolor, and their warranty service is atrocious in the UK.

Fair enough. I guess they wouldn't be significantly cheaper for no reason whatsoever, no matter how much I'd like them to be.

 

[iamtheoneneo]

Because MSI and Gigabyte cards are far superior in terms of quality, warranty, cooling and noise.

VTX appear to be using lower cost PCB components to keep the board costs down.

They are also a subbrand of Powercolor, and their warranty service is atrocious in the UK.

Still works thou doesn't it, still gives you the performance for £60 less iv bought a fair few budget cards in my time and they have always ran smoothly until I came to replace them....hardly anyone keeps a gpu for more than a couple of years now.

Sometimes I feel people are being snobs for the sake of it, it's like buying a packet of own brand divestures at waitrose for £1 then realizing the exact same product just different packaging is being sold at tescos for £o.65p

 

[Angel_Rex]

I have 4890 and play at the same res. The alpha didnt not run at 60 - 80 FPS. More like 30 - 40 out side, inside the subway 50 - 60 FPS.

Ah ok, His is the overclocked version, its on about 975mhz core cant remember mem.

I play at 1680x1050 so im hoping the 4890 overclocked version will run it as im too poor to upgrade atm Maybe medium settings and the 4890 oc....

 

[bhavv]

Still works thou doesn't it, still gives you the performance for £60 less

£30 less. MSI + Gigabyte dont charge much more than the normal price on their premium cards. Asus, EVGA and a few other brands tend to overcharge for the same thing.

I'd rather buy MSI cards because that extra £30 gets you a better built, better cooled, better aesthetics card with overclocking and overvolting covered by the warranty. The Twinfrozr cards have consistently come out on top for the lowest temps and best overclocks in most reviews.

If Gigabyte started making cards with black PCBs + coolers, I'd consider buying those too. I dont like blue or red PCBs at all.

 

[shaffaaf27]

thing is bc2 can't be run at 60 fps minimum at 1920 maxed (4xaa) can it ?

nw3 will mostlikey be able to as mw2 and blops are easily run, but bc2 was much more demanding.

 

[Game]

run bc2 on a 560gtx oc to 905
at 1920 4xaa and 16xani averaged 57 fps over a 22 minute game have vsync on so the max was the odd rise up to 64 fps
have a stock i5-750 processor

 

[Mojo]

I'd err towards the 6950 myself, simply because of the extra gig of Vram on it.

 

[arknor]

i'd get a 2gb card tbh even for 1920x1080

even single player of BF BC2 uses 800-900mb+ of ram with 4xaa i'd imagine the large maps on bf3 will easily spank that

 

[ScarySquirrel]

6950 2Gb here, ran the BF3 Alpha absolutely perfectly, I'm sure the full game will be fine, if not better

 

[setter]

When i ran the first alpha client i got 40-50 fps with a single gtx 470, with the updated version of the alpha trial, i was able to make use of my sli setup. 70-80 fps, 1920x1200, high settings, gpu memory usage of 1090mb ono.

BFBC2 runs at 70-140 fps, highest setings, 4x msaa, 16x af, bloom and vsync turned off. 900mb ono memory usage.

The BF3 alpha actually felt a lot faster than BC2, despite running at a lower frame rate.