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Yet another spec me a BF3 GPU thread

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I appreciate these threads are getting a bit tiresome but hopefully someone will stumble in here to help me out :)
I currently have 2x4890's and want to replace them for BF3.
I seem to be very sensitive to low FPS and even though the 4890's will play BF3 at 30-50fps on a mixture of medium/high/ultra, I've set everything to low and dropped the res from 1920x1200 to 1680x1050 with no AA because it is much much smoother (70-100 fps).
I'm after a new card that will let me play BF3 with most/all of settings at maximum (bar AA, 2x or 4x will do) at 1920x1200 and not drop below 60fps.

Doing some investigating, I've only come across a few options that can realistically deliver this:
6990 4Gb
GTX 590 3Gb
2x 6970 2Gb
2x 580 3Gb

...unless I am missing something?
I'm guessing that the single card solutions (6990/590) may be better options for me as I could add a second at a later date if needed?

Any help, advice or personal experiences appreciated :)
 
I would suggest a single 580.

The reason for my suggestion is that my dual GTX 275's caused issues in BFBC2, SLI caused the screen to black out...apparently an issue with the bloom settings.

One card solution should suffice, I am using my GTX 570 in the above game and it is smoth as butter.

MSI are good brand too.

Cheers

Von
 
Going through the same problem.

I was all set for 2x6970 but I am worried about it maxing out the 2gb memory as I was
not aware that crossfire only used one cards memory.

1 x 580 3gb to start with then adding another if required looks the better option.
 
Perhaps we should find out what motherboard the OP has before suggesting Nvidia cards and then "SLI in the future".

Also what power supply does the OP have?
 
Surveyor said:
Perhaps we should find out what motherboard the OP has before suggesting Nvidia cards and then "SLI in the future".

Also what power supply does the OP have?
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Whoops, forgot to mention that :)

Current spec is:
Asus P6T Deluxe (x58)
i7 @ ~4.4Ghz
PC Power & Cooling 910w PSU

You know, I didn't even think of that - do the x58s even support SLI?!
Upgrading motherboard isn't out of the question, but it would be silly to not change to socket 1155 meaning a CPU upgrade too. What I have seems to be good enough for the time being.
 
L33 said:
Whoops, forgot to mention that :)

Current spec is:
Asus P6T Deluxe (x58)
i7 @ ~4.4Ghz
PC Power & Cooling 910w PSU

You know, I didn't even think of that - do the x58s even support SLI?!
Upgrading motherboard isn't out of the question, but it would be silly to not change to socket 1155 meaning a CPU upgrade too. What I have seems to be good enough for the time being.
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Your motherboard is SLI compatible and your PSU would be fine for 2 GTX 580's if it came to that.
 
VonScar what settings are you playing at since I'll be using a 570GTX when I get BF3, also what kind of framerates?

JT
 
I was referring to Battlefield BC 2, but I am using highest settings in DX11 mode. Anti is only at 4 though, this MSI 570 is overclocked by manufacturer.

I am getting about 90 fps...but not used Battlefield 3 beta yet.
 
OP, I bought a Gigabyte 580 3gb the other day mainly for bf3 and it runs around 70 FPS highest settings with temps of 52C. Im running my 860 at 4ghz which might also help. when ultra is activated it shouldnt be much less FPS than this. My opinion anything more is overkill sli, quad sli etc etc just for guys who the bench on 3dmark and people with high res and more than 1 screen. The 580 lightning is better than mine, probably the best but depends how much you want to spend. Dont go wasting money if you dont need to the games developers arent even up to speed with these high end cards anyway.
 
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OP, I bought a Gigabyte 580 3gb the other day mainly for bf3 and it runs around 70 FPS highest settings with temps of 52C. Im running my 860 at 4ghz which might also help. when ultra is activated it shouldnt be much less FPS than this. My opinion anything more is overkill sli, quad sli etc etc just for guys who the bench on 3dmark and people with high res and more than 1 screen. The 580 lightning is better than mine, probably the best but depends how much you want to spend. Dont go wasting money if you dont need to the games developers arent even up to speed with these high end cards anyway.
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Thank you for taking the time to post that, exactly the sort of info I was looking for :)
I think I've narrowed it down to either a 580 3Gb or a 6990. Just weighing up whether it is worth the extra £100 for the 6990 for a little extra future-proofing.
 
wiganwazzack said:
My opinion anything more is overkill sli, quad sli etc etc just for guys who the bench on 3dmark and people with high res and more than 1 screen.
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+1
GTX 580 is very well for 1080 res, but you've got 1200 ;-) 580 still should have meet requirements, otherwise go down with some settings (but no res & AA).
Alternatively (looking for low cost) you may look at two GTX es 560 (not Ti, like Gigabyte OC), but cards with no OTES are not really good for SLIing in my opinion.
 
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