its that time need a new video card

7thkevin · Post by **7thkevin** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 1:27 am

so, right now im using a amd hd5770 I dont wanna spend no more then a bout 350$
I am kinda leaning to nvidia but brand does not really matter, I wanna play the new games smooth as i can

my system right now is 3ghz dual core,6 gigs ram
I can SLI too if thats better I dont know much a bout that

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 7:18 am

With that price range I would grab a Nvidia GTX 570. If you have the ability to go SLI with your rig then down the road you could throw in another when prices drop more and newer games start stressing that too much. But for now I would go with 1 modern card, with all the latest features, rather than 2 older tech cards for a bit of a speed boost.

The 570 will prob struggle to play Battlefield 3 at very high resolutions, but it should do well for most games.

7thkevin · Post by **7thkevin** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 3:13 pm

YARDofSTUF wrote:With that price range I would grab a Nvidia GTX 570. If you have the ability to go SLI with your rig then down the road you could throw in another when prices drop more and newer games start stressing that too much. But for now I would go with 1 modern card, with all the latest features, rather than 2 older tech cards for a bit of a speed boost.

The 570 will prob struggle to play Battlefield 3 at very high resolutions, but it should do well for most games.

I play 1920x1080 and bf3 Is a main reason im asking lol

RaisinCain · Post by **RaisinCain** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:17 pm

If you're playing at that resolution why bother upgrading? Until you need it I would do an SLI nVidia setup but for now seems you're a okay (unless you want to spend the $$$).

YARDofSTUF · Post by **YARDofSTUF** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 4:56 pm

7thkevin wrote:I play 1920x1080 and bf3 Is a main reason im asking lol

At that res according to a [H] write up you should get 60fps or so with good graphics settings.

Look here for the settings and numbers for 1920x1200: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/11/ ... q_review/3

Mark · Post by **Mark** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 5:46 pm

gonna need a quad core CPU to really rock BF3 as far as i have read, plus you CPU may hold back the latest cards as well.

i haven't got BF3 yet because i know my 4 year old system will struggle to play at 1920 x 1200

7thkevin · Post by **7thkevin** » Thu Feb 02, 2012 11:49 pm

Mark wrote:gonna need a quad core CPU to really rock BF3 as far as i have read, plus you CPU may hold back the latest cards as well.

i haven't got BF3 yet because i know my 4 year old system will struggle to play at 1920 x 1200

so out of these that my mobo can handle what should I get?

Intel Core 2 Extreme, Intel Core 2 Quad, Intel Core 2 Duo, Pentium EE,
and Pentium.

I have the nforce 680i mainboard

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 8:49 am

Yeah I've got a 570 Super clocked version from eVGA..should be plenty to handle BF3 as it does me great with Crysis2 - running a Quad 9300 cpu to, the drivers nvidia have out now seem to do pretty good for optimizing with various new games.

7thkevin · Post by **7thkevin** » Fri Feb 03, 2012 4:36 pm

if i just get a new mobo and a new CPU what would be the best ? i have about 1100$ to spend on this

Sava700 · Post by **Sava700** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 11:01 am

7thkevin wrote:if i just get a new mobo and a new CPU what would be the best ? i have about 1100$ to spend on this

Prob go with a ASUS mobo and a i7 cpu.. all intel - drop at least 8 gigs of ram and you good to go

7thkevin · Post by **7thkevin** » Sat Feb 04, 2012 4:50 pm

Sava700 wrote:Prob go with a ASUS mobo and a i7 cpu.. all intel - drop at least 8 gigs of ram and you good to go

so how does this look

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