building my new pc - what graphics card?!

[Adam_B]

I have no idea what graphics card I should buy for the new PC I'm building, hopefully for bf3.

so far I've got:
core i5 2500k, not overclocked yet, but soon.
coolermaster V8 cpu cooler
asus p8p67 deluxe
8gb Corsair xm3s, not sure if its 1333 or 1600 :/
800w modular PSU
antec 900 case

I'm looking for a single card at the minute, no idea what to get though!

any ideas would be greatly appreciated

 

[Spit]

6950 would suit that very nice.

 

[Adam_B]

I have been looking at them, bit gutted you cant flash them to 6970s anymore lol

ive mainly been looking at:
HD 6950/6970
GTX 560/570/580

ive also, for some reason been looking at the HD 6990 lol

 

[mickyflinn]

At what resoloution will you be gaming? and whats your budget?

 

[Hyburnate]

I have been looking at them, bit gutted you cant flash them to 6970s anymore lol

ive mainly been looking at:
HD 6950/6970
GTX 560/570/580

ive also, for some reason been looking at the HD 6990 lol

I think you can flash the Toxic 6950 2GB Models don't hold me on that. An 580 would be lovely.

 

[Adam_B]

a 580 would be lovely lol

I think what I might do is just wait until bf3 comes out and see what people say about different cards performance on it, then buy the one that sounds the best

 

[Adster3000]

8gb Corsair xm3s, not sure if its 1333 or 1600 :/

I have some XMS3 RAM, it's 1600MHz. The only thing is that I had to manually set it to 1600MHz. It defaulted at 1333MHz on my board (in sig.) Just a heads up.

I'd go for the best graphics card I can afford. Or pair of cards, depending on where you stand considering Crossfire/SLI.

 

[Adam_B]

yea mine is set to 1333 in the bios like, gonna have a check on the box and make sure before i change it up to 1600 lol

i wanted to go for a crossfire/sli set up, but its gonna cost so much anyway that i thought about a 6990, nearly as good as most cards in crossfire on its own with the bonus of being able to add another one of those at a later date?

gonna have to check my psu could handle that though lol

 

[gwobbles]

if youre really not sure and can wait til bf3 beta or release then you should. even though DICE has released the specs for a machine, theres still a lot of speculation as to how the current gen gpus will preform... so really DICE has in a way not released their specs... (if you get what i mean)

but safe bet would be 6950 (confirmed that it will run bf3 at medium) or anything better than that, if its a small res, i think even a 6850 or 6870 can handle med high, but thats only my opinion and thoughts, i stand corrected

 

[Adam_B]

i think im gonna wait until benchmarks for it come out and get whatever runs it the best lol