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Help !! Bc2 and 4870

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Ok running quad core amd 3.2 be 4gb ddr3 and a 1gb 4870 and im just fed up with poor frame rates in Bc2 .

With fraps it can be running 70+fps and then drop to as low as 14fps . got most of my settings on low . forced to dx9 ..bloom etc off . Everything in cats to performance and latest drivers . Even have a mild overclock on the card but to no avail .

So OCUK tell me whats a cost efective upgrade . i play at 2048x1152 (23" sammy) single screen . air cooled so want quiet (ish) but no fussed about having everything max (no dual card setups)

Games wise it will be wow/bc2 and most modern games .

Spec me ocuk :)

And thanks in advance

Persil
 
hmmm

Well, your cpu is fast enough... but would benefit from an further increase in speed if possible.

Its a bit of a sweeping statement to say this, but the if you like 'magic' frequency for multicore cpu these days is 3.6Ghz... in other words thats high enough to generally lift the bottleneck from the cpu to the gpu.

Im my experience, I saw a massive performance increase since overclocking my cpu from 3Ghz to 3.7Ghz...

(Be careful overclocking that cpu if you dont know how to do it, as I dont want you to break it, due to my advice!)

I also game with a 5870, which can play the game 95% of the time maxed out and with great frames, every now and then I do get dips, but thats only when the action is frantic, and the massive explosion has just happen in amongst all the carnage thats already going on....

As you already have a 4870 I dont tink its worth while jumping up to a 5850.... not a big enough jump.

It depends how much cash you got... I think a 6950 is a good balance bewteen power and price!

If you wanted to go Nvidia and spend around the same amount of cash as a 6950 then one of those superclocked GTX 470 which also be great.

Dont bother crossfiring the 4870... lack of DX11, means its not a feasble upgrade path.

How come your native resolution is so unusual at 2048x1152?

I have a 24inch screen at 1920x1200 resolution...

(Another feasable upgrade that would be powerfull is getting two of those £125 5850's and crossfireing them....)

But I prefer single cards, and the tesselation performance will be better with the 6950 and any equivalent Nvidia card.
 
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yes it is a weird ress but thats what it is for my monitor

Display
Monitor Type PC Monitor
Screen type Flat-panel (TFT)
Screen size 23
Widescreen Yes
Technology TN
Touch Screen No
Resolution
Full HD (1920x1080) No
Dot pitch 0.249
Maximum resolution 2048x1152
Bandwidth
Horizontal frequency 30-81
Vertical frequency 50-85
TFT specifications
Color depth 16.7
Pixel response time (rise+fall) 5
Contrast 20000:1
Brightness 300
Horizontal viewing angle 170
Vertical viewing angle 160



i was thinking of the 6870 .. will the 50 be enough ? not looked at the 69XX cards yet .

Budget is low as poss atm hehe but my card is worthless (going by MM prices)

And prefer a single card solution . I did have my cpu overclocked before but got fed up with the noise so its back at default . but may try it overclocked again and see how it is .

Any base settings you recomend ?

Persil
 
You could consider the MSI 5850 Twin FrozeR on pre-order at £125:
http://www.overclockers.co.uk/showproduct.php?prodid=GX-103-MS&groupid=701&catid=56&subcat=411

Lots of people and myself included has place pre-order for this card...at £125 it is a absolutely bargin, and it comes with a copy of Assassin Creed II as well according to Gibbo.

The 5850 is roughly 10% faster than the 6850/GTX460 1GB, and about 5% slower than the 6870. I don't think the 6870 is worth it consider it cost around 50% extra for only 5% faster speed. The current price for that MSI 5850 Twin FrozeR is a total steal. Overclock the 5850 to 850MHz+, and you will have a card as fast as a 5870, and if your card is good enough to hit 900MHz+ stable, it will be faster than the 5870.
 
I'd go down the second hand route and get a 5850.
Could pick one up for £90 these days.
 
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Okies well just a little update on my senario . I had been playing Bc2 fine on the same setup . i had assumed that the new maps and patches and the way newer games had moved on that my 4870 could no longer cut the mustard . Yes i know its dx9 card but i never had issues before .

After extensive research and messing about and googling i found my 125w cpu was overheating and throttling . Hence when first starting a game it was fine for 10 mins then turned into a slide show .

Ide temps were 52 . And load temps were 68(ish ) . Max temp for my chip is 62 .

So i cleaned all my fans and heatsink (was very dirty) and had a full spring clean of my system . Idle is now 38 and load about 45 . Bf2 is now a constant 70fps and lovely and smooth with no issues at all and i am now a happy bunny :)

Persil
 
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