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Only thing is I have noticed a heck of a lot of talk in the forums with games such as BF3 and the like of graphics cards which I have never heard of and I'm starting to wonder if mine will stand up to third and fourth quarter 2011 releases.
Just out of interest who of you would recommend an upgrade for titles such as the afformentioned BF3 or Skyrim?
List of PC games I'm looking to get are Skyrim and Rage and maybe BF3.
Cheers Grift.
"700 watt psu is recommended"
The 9600GT was a respectable gpu and a good all round single-slot-solution gpu. My old 9800GT gave up the ghost a few weeks back and I opted to replace it with an ATI Radeon HD 6970 which suits all of my current needs.
The GTX 590 is a great card, but the cost of it would give anybody nightmares lol! To be honest, how old is your current rig? I opted for the gpu I`ve gone for purely to get me by for the next year or so, in order to take full advantage of DDR3 RAM, USB 3 and SSD hard drives when I next build a new machine.
I run my games at 1920x1200 resolution, so something quite hefty was needed in order to fulfill the next 12-18 months of pc game-age, but compared to your older 9600GT, anything more up to date than that would give a noticeable difference in performance.
I`d probably go with something mid-range and save the cash for when you next build a new beast in a year or so`s time.
If however your current pc is fine, then it`s entirely up to you and you could get anything in there that you liked, as long as you take into consideration the size of the card, as well as the power connectors that you`ve got available.
If you psu hasn`t got any 8-pin psu connectors, then remember that nVidia usually give you 2x6-pin to 1x8-pin in the box, so any card that has one of each to power it up is no issue.
Bare in mind too, that not so long ago, the older cards were deemed as `the best thing since sliced bread`, so if you were stuck for power or connections, then any of those `older` models would do just as good.
My current rig only has 3 gig of DDR-2 RAM, an AMD duel core cpu and my Radeon HD 6970 inside it and to be honest, if that didn`t run Skyrim at full res etc with good settings, then I`d throw it through the window lol.
Save your cash, and buy an older card, as the performance will be great, and your wallett will love you long time! ;0)
Oooh, Profound, isn't it?
Oooh, Profound, isn't it?
Less head movement (doesn't matter what size it is, I'm still only two feet from it), and plenty of performance room for the almighty AA or, if the game is demanding enough, low enough of a resolution to give negligible hits without it.
I'm interested in a beefed up 560, but should wait for the new class of card, for the price drop.
edit oh yeah, I tried out the equivalent 16:9 to 1440x900, and didn't like it as much for activities other than gaming.
It's nice for TV's but with a multi-use machine, I'd want something a lot larger in that ratio.
It's nice for TV's but with a multi-use machine, I'd want something a lot larger in that ratio.
Oooh, Profound, isn't it?
I would like to upgrade in the next couple of weeks.
I've got an 4870x2 at the moment. It has done great over the last 2-3 years, but I want to go for a DX11 card which I can get me through BF3/Crysis 2/ETC on highest settings.
I've got an budget limit of 450 Euro's (about 646 US Dollars).
Looks like nowadays most go for a dual card setup but as long as it get's me what I want I don't care if it's one beastly card or 2 separate cards...
"First come smiles, then comes lies. Last is gunfire"
XFX HD 6950 830M 1024 MB DDR5 Dual Mini-DisplayPort (HD-695X-ZNDC)
GPU Clock MHz:
800 MHz
Bus Type:
PCI-E 2.1
Performance:
Standard
Memory Interface Bus (bit):
256
Memory Type:
DDR5
Memory Size (MB):
2048 MB
Memory Clock (MHz):
5000 MHz
Minimum Power Requirement (Watt):
XFX 650W XXX edt PSU
159 Euro's a piece, so I could get 2 of those
"First come smiles, then comes lies. Last is gunfire"
What resolution do you play at? Get the 2GB cards. MSI's Twin Frozr kicks ass (GTX570 and 6950 versions) but it comes with a premium price. You could probably score a couple of reference boards a lot cheaper.
I was set on 2x6950's for a while.. ultimately I settled on a single GTX570 until I could gauge BF3's performance. It whups BC2.
MSI R6950 Twin Frozr III Power Edition/OC looks like a beast as well..
250 Euro's per card...
2 of those in a Crossfire setup? :P
I think I'll be done for the time being!
The only problem is, how much of overclocking would I need to do? I'm still kind of an overclock noob :P
"First come smiles, then comes lies. Last is gunfire"
Those MSI coolers are great.
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I'll probably go with a GTX560Ti, preferably with MSI's Twin Frozr cooling, as Grift mentioned.
They really keep stuff cool.
I'm not about to bust out a fortune for a 570/80/90
And yeah, it is, but the alpha performance (and the upcoming beta) won't likely show us retail performance. The gap in BC2 (and in only a few weeks) between the beta and retail was pretty jarring stuff.
I imagine they'll announce specs soon.. but the only picture perfect picture of performance is going to come @ retail. And what kind of performance are people expecting that want to crank this thing up to 11 anyway? If you want to lock this thing down to a post-60fps framerate then you're asking quite a lot. The only sure-thing is SLI, which didn't work in the Alpha (and actually hurt performance).. but I'm pretty sure they're going to fix that.
Also worth mentioning: I still think nvidia wants to get Kepler out this year.
So, if I do wait for a price drop, the 570 or 80 should be more realistic here and hopefully a better use of my upgrade opportunity.
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I also hope the rest of my system is still good enough.. Intel Q9550 and 4GB DDR3..