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Which current card, or wait?

Mort

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Yo all

Currently have an 8800 and black ops is basically unplayable even on low (although at 1080) so looking to buy a new rig

Not sure what to go for, be it AMD or Nvidia, have always been a big fan of nvidia, their larger price tags dont bother me

What should I go for? Or is it worth waiting for something out soonish?

Ta in advance
 
jigger said:
Depends on what you plan to spend, if your looking at £200+ cards then I would wait for the new ATI cards.
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I'd figured around £400? Wanted the new rig to be good for when BF3 comes out so I want to get as good as poss

Rroff said:
Have you checked framerate? a lot of people are finding the game feels like <30fps much of the time even when kicking out good framerates.
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framerate is pretty spikey, however a mate of mine on virtually the same spec at least finds the game playable. think the game needs a good old patch and it will be playable on low settings
 
I will go with the 6990 if its going to be better than the 580, just have been out of the game for a while so dont know whats best anymore. Clock speeds on the AMD seem higher but then some people still think the Nvidia are the better cards

definitely dont mind spending a bit more for quality / less chance of it bricking in 2 years / lower temps etc
 
Rroff said:
I would not spend money upgrading just for Black Ops atm... I'm on a fairly decent spec and getting 100+fps in the game and it still only just about feels playable - if I didn't have the framerate counter up I'd swear I was sub 30fps quite a lot of the time.
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not JUST for black ops. as above I want this PC to own for battlefield 3 as well, plus the mrs needs an upgrade so she will get my current rig, and been wanting a new machine for a while now :P
 
want a whole new rig, just the gfx card is the only bit i am unsure of really

and yeah mw2 runs absolutely fine for me mid details @ 1080, but i swear black ops is literally unplayable. i see someone, goto shoot, freeze up, then i'm dead :(

I definitely think its issues with the game rather than my spec, but until they bring out a patch that may or may not solve my problems I am looking into this avenue of resolution :P
 
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