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Gtx 460 performance???

calum1231

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just wondering what settings i will be able to play battlefield 3 at with evga gtx 460 ftw edition. my specs:
fx 6300
8gb viper 3 black mamba 1600mhz ram
cpu cooler - hyper evo 212
evga gtx 460 ftw edition
 
Should be perfectly playable with a mixture of medium / high settings at anything up to 1080p.

You won't be pulling 60fps average but it will be more than playable.
 
Also, overclock the the 460 as well. For the core clock, almost all will hit 825MHz, most will hit 850MHz, some will hit 900MHz+.

I think it should handle BF3 on high without problem (so long as you don't use more than 2xMSAA).
 
960MHz?!

Core?!

I have EVGA SLi 470 SC and 850MHz Core is pushing it at 1.2500v peaking at 94*c. I really f@#ked up if a 460 can pull 960 stable.

That's like saying I can post 7.2 GHz on my i2700k! But I can't run Winword.exe(!)


C'mon guys... Seriously?
 
Anyway, back on topic, I ran BF3 on GTX470 SLI on Ultra/MAX and saw slight dips in heavy situations.

Are we forgetting CPU here, or is that just me?
 
_corTEC said:
960MHz?!

Core?!

I have EVGA SLi 470 SC and 850MHz Core is pushing it at 1.2500v peaking at 94*c. I really f@#ked up if a 460 can pull 960 stable.

That's like saying I can post 7.2 GHz on my i2700k! But I can't run Winword.exe(!)


C'mon guys... Seriously?
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Ha, it was only for benching, would have done 920 stable in games though, defo. I regret selling as i only sold for £35 due to how MM rules work :D
I originally bought for my friend as a stop gap, only got it back a day to see what it could do and then sold it so this was before i decided to get into benching.

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http://hwbot.org/submission/2378854...formance_geforce_gtx_460_(192bit)_21234_marks

http://www.3dmark.com/3dmv/4685584?

6th fastest 786mb 460 on the bot, thanks mainly to my CPU even though i was only getting 50k physics at that stage, nearer 52k now so would have been in top 5 easily based on that.
 
Nah, the 6300 will still be way ahead of what the GTX 460 can do in any game. In a more CPU bound game like Arkham City, it's coming out at stock clocks with 104fps compared to 140fps on a 3570K (that's tested with a GTX 680 to rule out graphics bottlenecks).
 
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teppic said:
Nah, the 6300 will still be way ahead of what the GTX 460 can do in any game. In a more CPU bound game like Arkham City, it's coming out at stock clocks with 104fps compared to 140fps on a 3570K.
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Sounds like you don't really know what CPU demandings games are...

Random mmos (i.e. PlanetSide2, DC Universe Online, Tribes Ascend, WOW etc), strategy games (i.e. Starcraft II, Total Wars etc), Hawken etc, and badly ported games that barely use more than one CPU core (i.e. Assassin Creed series). And then there are classics such as Crysis 1, which doesn't use more than 2 cores...you can pair a high overclocked FX-6300 with a Titan, and would still can't get solid 60fps due to CPU bottleneck.
 
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teppic said:
(I admit I've generalised above, but I'm talking about typical modern 3d games)
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I think I know what you mean...I believe what you refer to specifically is more like general single player FPS, action, racing kinda games that hardly has more than a few things happening at the same time, rather than playing online which has far more unpredictable dynamic actions and with tonnes players running around ;)
 
Marine-RX179 said:
I think I know what you mean...I believe what you refer to specifically is more like general single player FPS, action, racing kinda games that hardly has more than a few things happening at the same time, rather than playing online which has far more unpredictable dynamic actions and with tonnes players running around ;)
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Yup. I'll revise what I said before with that in mind :)

The 6300 isn't a problem for FPS/action type games, the GTX 460 will be the bottleneck.
 
Marine-RX179 said:
Also, overclock the the 460 as well. For the core clock, almost all will hit 825MHz, most will hit 850MHz, some will hit 900MHz+.

I think it should handle BF3 on high without problem (so long as you don't use more than 2xMSAA).
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my 460 is the ftw edition so its at 850 stock and has 1gb v ram
 
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