Upgrade for BF3

Snodge · 9 May 2012 at 17:22

I'm playing BF3 at the moment trying to play on Ultra getting around 40+ FPS on 1920x1080 with these specs:

AMD 955 3.2 @ Stock
8GB of 1333MHZ XMS3 Ram
and a HIS 6950 1GB

I was wondering if a new IB and 670 will increase my performance by loads to try and sustain 60 FPS ;D

Doomedspeed · 9 May 2012 at 17:24

Should do, though we don't know about the GTX 670 performance yet.

Snodge · 9 May 2012 at 17:34

We do it's on the the official 670 thread but we just dont know the performance of the 670 on bf3

Doomedspeed · 9 May 2012 at 17:54

Snodge said:
We do it's on the the official 670 thread but we just dont know the performance of the 670 on bf3

Thats what i meant.

Snodge · 9 May 2012 at 17:58

Ah right sorry I miss understood, just contemplating whether or not it'll be worth spending £600 just to play on ultra

Shashman · 9 May 2012 at 18:37

Should you really need to ask that question?? :|

Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 18:47

My 680 with a gpu boost of 150 and with a I5 clocked @ 4.4 will hold above 60fps if this helps? average around 70-80ish I would guess

Full ultra @ 1920x1080

from what I have read about the 670, it is not far behind but hold any of the benchs shown at a distance untill you read reviews from Anandtech.

Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 18:48

Shashman said:
Should you really need to ask that question?? :|

Did you feel you needed to post that question?

Snodge · 9 May 2012 at 19:39

Even on maps such as caspain border? Because I'm dropping to 30 FPS on high.

Rusty0611 · 9 May 2012 at 19:49

Snodge said:
Even on maps such as caspain border? Because I'm dropping to 30 FPS on high.

Yes. Full ultra 70-80 average for me. Overclock settings in signature.

Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 19:50

Caspian border 64 MP is what I was testing on. I find this map to be the most intense for gpu usage.

Snodge · 9 May 2012 at 19:55

You don't have 4MSAA On do you? just full Ultra and 16AA?

So whats the lowest FPS you've seen in Caspian Border on Ultra.

My processor being the 955 can't even cope BF3 on high anymore getting 30-70 FPS on caspian Border on high.

Rusty0611 · 9 May 2012 at 19:58

Snodge said:
You don't have 4MSAA On do you?

Yes MSAA on 4x. i.e. the in game settings can go no higher...

Snodge said:
So whats the lowest FPS you've seen in Caspian Border on Ultra.

My processor being the 955 can't even cope BF3 on high anymore getting 30-70 FPS on caspian Border on high.

50's perhaps? I don't know for sure but that's from general checking of the FPS counter while playing rather than anything scientific.

Snodge · 9 May 2012 at 20:00

Make have to play on Medium

Gregster · 9 May 2012 at 20:08

Rusty0611 said:
Yes MSAA on 4x. i.e. the in game settings can go no higher...

50's perhaps? I don't know for sure but that's from general checking of the FPS counter while playing rather than anything scientific.

Yep lowest I have seen is 52 but this is from watching fraps out of the corner of my eye whilst blowing a tank up with C4 and this was for like 2 seconds.

Snodge · 9 May 2012 at 20:45

Haha tempted, or I can just stay away from Caspian Border or play Caspian on low or medium