Upgrading For The Awesome Battlefield 3

Rroff · 12 Sep 2011 at 17:27

^^ BF2 slaughtered my heavily overclocked 5900XT, however swapping that for a 6800 Ultra IIRC was able to play everything maxed out with around 100fps.

CinderzFTW · 12 Sep 2011 at 17:29

An Nvidia 6800 or ATI equivalent?

Rroff · 12 Sep 2011 at 17:32

I went from GeForce FX5900XT to an nVidia GeForce 6800 Ultra... probably should put the whole names in these days to prevent confusion :S

CinderzFTW · 12 Sep 2011 at 17:36

Wow... that's an old card. I am sure I have one of them in a box somewhere. Still got an old Intel P4HT @ 3.2 with 1GB RAM and a FX5200 in it in the loft. Awesome machine that was in it's day. PCI-E card though xD

C64 · 12 Sep 2011 at 18:02

I am guessing that you'll need at least a 5850 overclocked + quad to run it all on high @ 1680-1050 and expect to see 60+ fps.

ScottMC7000 · 12 Sep 2011 at 18:04

Added some more pictures to OP.

CinderzFTW · 12 Sep 2011 at 18:07

@ C64: I only use a 19" monitor @ 1440*900 so I won't be needing to run at HD because, basically I can't lol.

@: Scottmc7000: I like that case, I really do. Buy some nicer red fans for it, or change it to blue maybe, not a fan of red, and I suppose I will be laughing. But seriously, nice set up dude xD.

Anything else you need help with?

setter · 12 Sep 2011 at 20:16

With the spec in sig, in the alpha i was getting the following.

single gtx 470, 40-50fps
sli gtx 470, 70-80fps

The first trial release didnt support multi gpu, ran it at 1920x1200, settings on high, options were pretty limited in the trial. Like bfbc2, a quad will be a must for bf3.

CinderzFTW · 12 Sep 2011 at 21:38

Yes, thats what im running. AMD Athlon II X4 640 @ 3.5ghz

ScottMC7000 · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:13

setter said:
With the spec in sig, in the alpha i was getting the following.

single gtx 470, 40-50fps
sli gtx 470, 70-80fps

The first trial release didnt support multi gpu, ran it at 1920x1200, settings on high, options were pretty limited in the trial. Like bfbc2, a quad will be a must for bf3.

I guess based on those figures at my current resolution 1920x1080, if I were to go for a single GTX 560 TI, the frame rates should be in the 60 to 70 frame rate mark.

setter · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:26

The beta, which is out sometime this month, will probably have a few more graphics options, and give us a beter idea of what the finished game will run like.

Guest2 · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:36

guaranteed it wont look like that

ScottMC7000 · 12 Sep 2011 at 22:51

The beta, which is out sometime this month, will probably have a few more graphics options, and give us a beter idea of what the finished game will run like.

Yeah.. it's probably one of the most eagerly awaited Beta's to be released this year so it will be interesting to see how it performs with what I have, but I'll be upgrading anyway to a DX11 card. It will be interesting to see what if anything they did with the DX11 tessellation feature.

Guest2 said:
guaranteed it wont look like that

It won't look like (as good as that) that on a console, thats for sure lol.

opethdisciple · 12 Sep 2011 at 23:15

My specs are:

[email protected]
5870 2Gb
4Gb DDR2 ram
SSD M4 (inbound)

Im hoping it copes well enough at 1920x1200.

Not looking for maxed out, but highest overall setting with a few features toned down.

For instance, PC copes wonderfully with the Witcher 2 at default ultra settings...

I hope its a good metric for future games.

I was thinking of upgrading cpu/ram to a BD and DDR3, but the 5870 I have to keep as its only 1 year old now.

Find out when the game releases I suppose.

rampin · 12 Sep 2011 at 23:22

nice rig u have i should post mine its not great but its nice.

matttrd · 13 Sep 2011 at 01:47

TheMorningStar said:
From My observations regarding gfx cards from ATI/Nvidia, they both have driver problems now and then, perhaps more from ATI granted but as far as overheating goes this is where Nvidea really fail ATI are really cool by comparison. Not that I'm trying to sway you, just trying to dispel a few myths

BTW I wasn't aware of the 16gb limit myself, by chance I have pro luckily, not that it matters as I cant see me going over 16gb on my next build.

Pretty much every review I have read and seen contradicts your heat statement.

It's widely accepted as fact that the Nvidia cards run cooler and quieter.

TheMorningStar · 13 Sep 2011 at 05:53

matttrd said:
Pretty much every review I have read and seen contradicts your heat statement.

It's widely accepted as fact that the Nvidia cards run cooler and quieter.

Mid range down maybe, but I do admit I have not played around with Nvidea since the 7 series. Still I see issues with the high end stuff posted, fact is Nvidea pretty much always use more power than the ATI/AMD line high end (ignoring duel GPU solutions, they are all hot as hell), power is heat. If we are talking none reference coolers that's a different matter. but just look at the wattage usage Nvidia vs AMD and you will see and I'm pretty sure that AMD is on top with the performance per watt charts too, but I would have to look into that. AMD are also usually first to market with smaller manufacturing technologies which drastically reduces power at a given performance point.

Still I think we all remember the horror which was the 2900xt

413x · 13 Sep 2011 at 07:12

I will give this game a bash when the price goes down if I can get decent frame rates, unless it is multiplayer orientated

Yaayuh! · 13 Sep 2011 at 11:47

nrenz123 said:
I dont get the point of this thread, what do you want to know?

Lol ditto

ScottMC7000 · 13 Sep 2011 at 14:54

al4x said:
I will give this game a bash when the price goes down if I can get decent frame rates, unless it is multiplayer orientated

Well it's multiplayer alright, 64 players on the PC, 24 on console and with your rig I'm pretty sure you will get decent frame rates.

As for the price, you will be looking at a good 6 months before the price will drop. This is a next generation game.