84% Of Gamers Do Not Meet Recommended Spec for BF3

[arc@css]

I find 2 x AA along with 4 / 8 super sampling or either 4 x AA suits me.

 

[setter]

I've decided I definitely need to play with this 8xAA.

That's the problem with high detail games, they often look like crap without it.

Edit: Holy memory usage batman!

I think its the highest memory usage ive seen on theese cards since i got them, bc2 or moh rarely venture over 1000mb, and ive played those two games with 32x aa enabled.

 

[Surveyor]

Anyone know of anyone using 480 sli? Got another 480 coming tomorrow

Have you got a new power supply coming as well?

You'll really be pushing a 750W.

 

[Bobisuruncle54]

I think I will hold off on a graphics card upgrade until the full game is out.

 

[Rroff]

Have you got a new power supply coming as well?

You'll really be pushing a 750W.

Bit more than pushing it... I don't reccomend less than 850watt for 470 SLI with an i5/i7 or newer CPU and possibly a little less with a 45nm LGA775 CPU let alone 480 SLI.

 

[Scrutinize]

guessing my ati 5470m in my laptop won't cut the mustard then,

hope it looks half decent on the ps3 then

 

[Surveyor]

Bit more than pushing it... I don't reccomend less than 850watt for 470 SLI with an i5/i7 or newer CPU and possibly a little less with a 45nm LGA775 CPU let alone 480 SLI.

In theory a 750W could run SLI'd GTX 480's but it would be running at near enough maximum output which isn't good.

As you say 850W is really the minimum that would be recommended.

 

[TheBrooder]

Setter: what program is that displaying temps and mem usage etc?

 

[iB CoMpL3XiTy]

Setter: what program is that displaying temps and mem usage etc?

MSI Afterburner

 

[Bobisuruncle54]

Anyone else getting a huge update for the beta?

 

[Tom|Nbk]

Bit more than pushing it... I don't reccomend less than 850watt for 470 SLI with an i5/i7 or newer CPU and possibly a little less with a 45nm LGA775 CPU let alone 480 SLI.

Bit of drama really, two 480's in SLI at stock with my CPU will use less than 750w.

The Corsair I have is designed for 750w continuous output anyway, it's a solid unit and that's why I purchased it.

I have seen more and more people using this PSU with 480 SLI.

 

[madindehead]

The 580 is pretty much identical performance wise to the 480 right? If so, I'm safe

 

[pgi947]

480 is closer to the 570 than 580, you should still get decent performance from it though.

 

[Rroff]

Bit of drama really, two 480's in SLI at stock with my CPU will use less than 750w.

The Corsair I have is designed for 750w continuous output anyway, it's a solid unit and that's why I purchased it.

I have seen more and more people using this PSU with 480 SLI.

I usually reccomend atleast 850watt with 400 series SLI partly to take into account people not using good quality PSUs...

However my setup with the 470s clocked to stock 480 speeds definitely push my PSU in graphically intensive benchmarks and my setup uses approx. 100watt less than an equivalent overclocked i5/i7 setup.

EDIT: Actually it may not be pushing it as much as I thought, the fan comes on at "approximately" 85% and doing the maths thats actually _only_ about 600watt - as an aside my PSU has been tested to provide upto 840watt continously while within ATX specification and over 80% efficency I don't suggest anyone else tries running this kinda setup on a random 700watt PSU.

 

[Tom|Nbk]

It's definitely pushing it a little but it is achieveable.

The TX like yours is a solid and hard as nails PSU, it's been able to push out 900w with minor temperature increase, while this is not recommened at all. My SLI setup (when the 480 finally gets here today) will be pulling just under 700w stock GPU.