whats the best graphics card and psu to put in my pc to play bf3 for a good price

[Ghiedo27]

Amazing deal on that 560ti. How good is Galaxy's rep these days?

 

[WMD]

Sorry, this one time I have to completely disagree with the GTX460 route. Add $7 shipping for the card you linked, and it's $138. It's simply too slow compared to HD6870 in the games specified. BF3 shows a whopping 26% performance advantage in favour of the 6870, while HD6870 is 39% faster in BF:BC2! (see post #20)

For $160 w/ free shipping (after $5 coupon "TACKLE") and same $30 MIR as the 460 you linked, you get an awesome triple fan Gigabyte HD6870 with 2 free games: DeusEx and Shogun 2.

Sorry, but that's just a far better deal than a GTX460 1GB in this instance. At least 25% more performance in BF games, 2 free games and a far better cooler for $22 more.

Actually the GTX560 is just a GTX460 with higher clocks. The performance is exactly the same at when the clocks are the same.

Does anyone know how much GTX560s usually overclocks compared to GTX460s? If absolute max clocks end up being similar, I am not sure if paying more for 560 is worth it.

 

[RussianSensation]

Ya, I know GTX560 is the same, but you get 2 free games + guaranteed 25% faster performance over a $138 GTX460 with the 6870 I linked. I would go with HD6870/GTX560/GTX560Ti for another $20-30 over GTX460 if you find them at those prices.

 

[skipsneeky2]

The difference in performance between a $100 and $175 graphics card is very large. If you are willing to spend that much, than HD6870 and GTX560 are hands down the fastest cards at the moment.

NV's GTX560 Ti seems to run faster in Black Ops and in BF:BC2 HD6870 ~ GTX560 Ti.

Preliminary testing of BF3 shows that HD6870 ~ GTX470 ~ GTX560. GTX560 Ti is faster.

If you are willing to spend upward of $175, then GTX560/HD6870 are still your best bets, unless you can find a cheaper GTX560 Ti.

If you can wait until BF3 launches, prices may come down as HD7000 series is launched.

Hate to say it bro but just about any card can play Black Ops.

My old 9800gtx 512mb can play Black Ops at 1920x1080 on high with 2x aa with well over 60fps its almost a joke how well that game runs on that old of a card.

Whats more funny going from stock to 4.3ghzs on my 2500k increased the fps in that game so much i was able to enable 4x and still pull over 60fps...

 

[aigomorla]

i have an asus cg5275 and i want to put a nice graphics card that will play battlefield bad company 2,and bf3 when it comes out.its currently running off the integrated graphics of the i5 processor,and has a stock psu of 400w.what would be the best to get for it? a graphics card in the $100-$150 range would be nice.
I was looking at the xfx-ati radeon hd 5570 1gb,hd5750,hd5450
Also the visiontek-ati radeon hd 5670 2gb,6670 1gb,5450 1gb,or the 5760 1gb.I just want one that will handle those games listed above

WOW... without telling us what resolution u will be playing with... no one can answer this question... and even then without seeing what the frostbtye2 engine does, we still cant answer that question.

If you have a dell30 inch then your going to need SLI or Xfire.
IF you have a gimp 21inch with max 1650 x 1050, then any card in the top 33% will do that without a hitch.

 

[Grooveriding]

Where did you get that its TWIMTBP?

http://www.slideshare.net/DICEStudio/directx-11-rendering-in-battlefield-3?from=ss_embed

Pretty sure there's an AMD engineer appearing in some slides and the final credits: AMD and NVIDIA.

Edit: Also note the tessellation part, they are optimizing it to run as efficient as possible. I doubt Crytek ever thought of doing such things.

http://translate.google.ca/translat...ngs-in-der-finalen-Version/Action-Spiel/News/

It's definitely not twimtpb. AMD Gaming Evolved.

 

[Silverforce11]

http://translate.google.ca/translat...ngs-in-der-finalen-Version/Action-Spiel/News/

It's definitely not twimtpb. AMD Gaming Evolved.

Thanks for that, i thought it was AMD E.

NV is helping them add FXAA implementation into Frostbite 2.. and the rest is done via DX11 standards and optimizing things properly. Doesn't need physx to do proper physics.

The beauty of this is its AMD E on frostbite 2 development, which will be used to make a lot of up-coming EA games: Mirror's Edge 2 and the new NSF amongst others.

 

[RussianSensation]

Hate to say it bro but just about any card can play Black Ops.

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Ya, but he also wants to play BF:BC2 and BF3. In the context of those 2 games, 9800GTX isn't that fast.

 

[tviceman]

Where did you get that its TWIMTBP?

http://www.slideshare.net/DICEStudio/directx-11-rendering-in-battlefield-3?from=ss_embed

Pretty sure there's an AMD engineer appearing in some slides and the final credits: AMD and NVIDIA.

Edit: Also note the tessellation part, they are optimizing it to run as efficient as possible. I doubt Crytek ever thought of doing such things.

I may have assumed too much on the part that it is a TWIMTBP title, but Nvidia is heavily promoting it on their Geforce website, and have already hosted tournaments with the game.

http://www.geforce.com/GamesandApps
http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/dice-talks-about-how-battlefield-3-uses-directx-11
http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/bf3-tournament-at-pax-prime-2011

I don't think Nvidia would be promoting the game as much as they are on their website if they didn't have their engineers helping out with specific aspects of the graphics rendering.

 

[houe]

I've thought the same thing. Considering nvidia is doing this I'm guessing they figure they will perform better than AMD. Makes me a bit hesitant to buy the 6950 I've had my eye on since this is the game I am going to be upgrading for.

 

[Silverforce11]

I may have assumed too much on the part that it is a TWIMTBP title, but Nvidia is heavily promoting it on their Geforce website, and have already hosted tournaments with the game.

http://www.geforce.com/GamesandApps
http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/dice-talks-about-how-battlefield-3-uses-directx-11
http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/bf3-tournament-at-pax-prime-2011

I don't think Nvidia would be promoting the game as much as they are on their website if they didn't have their engineers helping out with specific aspects of the graphics rendering.

The only publicly acknowledged help that NV is giving to DICE is implementing FXAA into the Frostbite 2 engine, so BF3 and all the other up and coming games will support both MLAA and FXAA. If you look at the presentation i've linked, DICE is working very hard to optimize all the DX11 features so they run the most efficient as possible, it appears to be a very important goal of theirs.. unlike at Crytek.

Otherwise ground up, it's an AMD E title.

Because its DICE and they have publicly stated how efficient Frostbite 2 is, BF3 will run as best as possible on both vendor GPUs.