A friend of mine asked me to help him build a system to run Battlefield 3. He's buying everything fresh and wants to be able to run the game on max settings. He hasn't yet picked out any other components because of the GPUs the game recommends. Both of which are total budget busters for him. He has about $150 to $200 to spend on the card.
The two cards it recommends are a Radeon 6950 and a GeForce GTX 560. Both of these cards retail for about double what he wants to spend with 2 gigs of ram. What I'm wondering is if there is an alternative card that will still play the game at max settings. He also has a bamboo tablet and likes to draw using photoshop. So something that runs that well is a plus.
I don't have any other computer specs because the whole build kind of rides on if we can find a cheaper graphics card or not, but the rest of the game's specs are:
Windows 7 64 bit OS
AMD or Intel quad core CPU
4 gigs of ram
1 gig graphics card memory
Thanks for the help!
The two cards it recommends are a Radeon 6950 and a GeForce GTX 560. Both of these cards retail for about double what he wants to spend with 2 gigs of ram. What I'm wondering is if there is an alternative card that will still play the game at max settings. He also has a bamboo tablet and likes to draw using photoshop. So something that runs that well is a plus.
I don't have any other computer specs because the whole build kind of rides on if we can find a cheaper graphics card or not, but the rest of the game's specs are:
Windows 7 64 bit OS
AMD or Intel quad core CPU
4 gigs of ram
1 gig graphics card memory
Thanks for the help!