Hi all,
I've had the following rig setup for a few months now and it's been fine up until some recent games came about:
ASUS Crosshair III Formula
AMD Phenom II X4 OC'd to 3.6Ghz
4GB DDR3 Dual channel
2x XFX 5770 1GB cards slight OC
I'm considering upping my GPU power to help cope with BF3 - BC2 runs perfectly with no noticeable FPS drops and Crysis 2 runs generally ok on "High" settings - which I think is the lowest setting thanks to it's stupid naming convention
I got F1 2011 last night and the benchmark on High settings with 2x AA @ 1680x1050 came back at an Average of 39/40FPS but it was dropping frames in the pit and quite noticeably.
I was considering going for a 6950 or 6970, I fancy doing away with Crossfire for one reasonably powerful card but obviously don't want to if I'm not going to see a decent increase in performance. How much grunt does the Phenom give? I would have thought a 3.6Ghz quad should be able to help it spit frames out at a decent pace.
Any advice and suggestions are weclome, thank you
I've had the following rig setup for a few months now and it's been fine up until some recent games came about:
ASUS Crosshair III Formula
AMD Phenom II X4 OC'd to 3.6Ghz
4GB DDR3 Dual channel
2x XFX 5770 1GB cards slight OC
I'm considering upping my GPU power to help cope with BF3 - BC2 runs perfectly with no noticeable FPS drops and Crysis 2 runs generally ok on "High" settings - which I think is the lowest setting thanks to it's stupid naming convention
I got F1 2011 last night and the benchmark on High settings with 2x AA @ 1680x1050 came back at an Average of 39/40FPS but it was dropping frames in the pit and quite noticeably.
I was considering going for a 6950 or 6970, I fancy doing away with Crossfire for one reasonably powerful card but obviously don't want to if I'm not going to see a decent increase in performance. How much grunt does the Phenom give? I would have thought a 3.6Ghz quad should be able to help it spit frames out at a decent pace.
Any advice and suggestions are weclome, thank you