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Am I correct in reading that this patch (assuming it will be re-released) improves SB performance? Only hyperthreaded chips or will my bf3-bottlenecked 2500k see a benefit?

Can anyone theorize how the 7950 and 7970 will compete with 2 x 6870 in CFX? Sick of Crossfire bugs and incompatibility and itching to go back to a single card solution.

64 player servers on BF3 max out my 2500k @ 4.4 GHz. Each of my 6870's only run at about 80%. So with sufficiently powerful GPUs you can definitely peg SB CPUs even with today's games.

So I've determined that two 6870's at stock are enough to bottleneck my 2500K @ 4.4GHz on full 64 player maps. My CPU is loaded to 95-100% while each GPU is sitting at only around 75%. At low settings and 1080P this translates to between 90 and 150 fps, but mostly sitting around 100. It...

Hmm, not sure. My Q6600 got slaughtered by Caspian Border in the beta - near unplayable at times. I'm pretty sure the CPU was getting pegged.

What are you using to display FPS and GPU utilization in-game like that?

I have an i5-2500K @ 4.4 and 2 XFX 6870's in crossfire. On big 64 player maps I average maybe 100 fps on medium-high custom settings. wtf @ the graph here though: http://www.techspot.com/review/458-battlefield-3-performance/page7.html 34% CPU usage? Mine is pegging all four cores at...

I could never get mine above 3.2 at 1.4v and I wasn't willing to go any higher. YMMV

Was really hoping BD could shake things up, but oh well. Bought a 2500k for a song at Microcenter. Coming from a Q6600 I expect to see a huge advancement in games.

I'm wondering if it's worth it for me to get a 2nd 6870.. I just upgraded to a 2500k, but I'm hearing all kinds of worrying information about microstuttering. On top of that, I'll be stuck with 1 gig of VRAM for a while as I don't intend on getting another single card solution for two years...

The $150 sale is over but it's still available for $180. Even after taxes that's about $20 less than anywhere else.

I have a 6870 but I can tell you my Core 2 Quad (Q6600) was definitely bottlenecking my performance, at least while playing 64 player Caspian Border, where I often dipped to 20-25fps (unplayable imo). 32 player Operation Metro was completely fine, however.

Think it's 2000% (20 * 100%), but either way it sounds too good to be true. 20 times what exactly?

I have a Q6600 @ 3.2, along with an HD6870. I upgraded to the 6870 from an 8800GT and thought my fps in Bad Company 2 would skyrocket, but the increase was modest and fairly disappointing. What did happen was my CPU usage went from around 50% in-game to much closer to 100%, which leads me...

Quick question since I've yet to do any overclocking in the turbo boost era. Is that 4.5ghz you mention your full-time speed with turbo disabled? Or the max single-core turbo? Or the max four-core turbo? TIA.