Who just purchased a new Gfx card for BF3?

This falls under software/hardware, but I`ll stick it in these forums...

1/ Which card(s) did you just buy? (link to where you got it from to compare prices).

2/ What FPS are you getting/Resolution/Gfx settings?

3/ Was it purely for BF3 or it was just merely time to upgrade anyway?

4/ Has anyone cancelled their pre-order because of the BETA (which EA said afterwards, this is what the engine looked like over a month ago, i.e. please don't cancel, this is like 2 months from the finished, better enginge - we promise!).

Anyone that hasn't played BETA yet, people are reporting lots of bugs, but also major game breakers like lack of Squad Management (but again EA are saying it will be in retail version).

I just ordered myself the following:

EVGA 012-P3-1573-KR Nvidia GTX570 HD SuperClocked 1280MB 320-Bit DDR5 Graphics Card (£265 from Amazon).

I got it because my GTS 250 is like 15% the power of what I've just ordered. So I got this because it was time to upgrade anyway. It's slightly less powerful than the GTX 580, but with a fairly big price difference. The GTX 590 (which I can easily afford), is just too expensive for that extra performance.

This game doesn't require an earth-shattering PC the way Crysis did. That card is above and beyond what you'll need. I'm running a GTX 480 that I bought a year ago, and aside from the spurting and sputtering of a poorly optimized beta build, I'm getting 60 fps. And that's on top of having a borderline-outdated mobo and dual-core CPU. You can relax.

I want to SLI 560's for it. I have one now and it works greatbut I would love to play on higher settings at higher frames. But I would need a new motherboard that is SLI compatible and maybe a new PSU too (not sure 650W would be enough for the two) and after all that I would probably want to change my CPU. Its only a phenom 955. Maybe early next year I will do some upgrades to and SLI AM3+ mobo and get 2 560's and a bulldozer CPU

i bought a second gtx 560ti for this game and im getting varied fps. the beta drivers are bad and i get anywhere from 35-150 fps at 1600x900. i thought it first was my cpu but at 3.8ghz thats not the case

Meh! My laptop runs the beta no problems. I wont be able to get my gaming rig together until sometime next year, so this will have to do!!

I have a GTX 470. Last night for fun I cranked up the settings to ultra to see what FPSs I got. While I know a lot of the settings are locked at medium, I did notice larger draw distances and more detail in the distance.

That said I was still getting only about 30-40 fps. I want 60 fps, I think it's time to upgrade. :P

Well, not JUST for BF3 (Skyrim, Batman:AC, Bioshock Infinite). I got the system in my sig recently.

I just updated my Crossfire 5830's to Crossfire 6950's. I needed the 2gb Vram for Eyefinity and just more horsepower in general. I was getting high settings in BF3 beta at 5256x1050 but only averaging 35-50fps. I get these badboys today....I'm excited.

Was given a 590 and built a machine around it with the little money I actually had

Was given a 590 and built a machine around it with the little money I actually had

godonholiday

I'm looking at purchasing 2 560tis to hold me over until the GTX 600 series comes out.

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Was given a 590 and built a machine around it with the little money I actually had

streetridaz

Was given a 590 and built a machine around it with the little money I actually had

This game doesn't require an earth-shattering PC the way Crysis did. That card is above and beyond what you'll need. I'm running a GTX 480 that I bought a year ago, and aside from the spurting and sputtering of a poorly optimized beta build, I'm getting 60 fps. And that's on top of having a borderline-outdated mobo and dual-core CPU. You can relax.

Warhearted

I'm Upgrading everything except for my GPU. I think my HD5850 will be good for another year or two. I don't need to max the game.

Im still deciding if i should get a GTX 570 or 580. Dante2710

The 570 cost me £265, but for the 580 it would cost about £400.

I got 2 GTX 460s for it.

I got a 6770 to replace my 4670 which fried somehow until I got the money to go all out on a new build. Now that I've played Caspian border and seen my FPS drop from a stable 45 FPS to an unstable 30, I probably should've just gone all out an upgraded my Phenom X3 too lol.

I normally get 30-50 and sometimes up to 60-70FPS on Caspian Border with it sadly getting below 30 at times.

This game eats up a lot of VRAM, 965 MB, gee.

Got a KFA2 GeForce 560Ti OC (KFA2 are the European arm of Galaxy). It was part of a major upgrade I was planning anyway, which I got a month ago (specs in sig).

I can't link it as they don't sell that particular card anymore. But it was £163 from Ebuyer. Haven't measured performance, but it was running smooth as butter at 1080p on whatever the maximum settings in the beta are (medium?). I expect I'll have no problem running the full game on High.

And I haven't pre-ordered the game. The beta was so buggy I couldn't enjoy it, but it's a beta so I'm relatively confident the full game will be fine. I'll probably wait a little while before getting it, tons of games to play in the next couple of months anyway...

I did... well I got the PC for Rage, Skyrim, BF3, Witcher 2 and pretty much any futre game.

I spent around £1200 on the PC, here are the specs:

• i5 2500k
• P67 Sabertooth
• 2x XFX HD 6950 2GB
• 2x 4GB DDR3 Kingston HyperX
• OCZ Vertex 3 120GB SSD
• 1TB Western Digital Black 6GB/s
• BenQ 24" LED 120Hz monitor

This is on Caspian Border: I'm getting around 55-60 frames average with everything that the Beta can offer on the highest never drops to the mid 30's sometimes but hey its a beta. When I use just one GPU I get around 40-45FPS average... I think I would have been a lot better off with just a single GTX 580 3GB.

This is all good till I get disconnected of course... :P. Honestly can't wait for the full game, It can only get better so Im keeping my pre-order.

I'm looking at purchasing 2 560tis to hold me over until the GTX 600 series comes out.

Wasdie

Your GTX470 should be more than enough to hold you over until GTX600 series. It'd be a waste to go from a GTX470, to 2 560's, only to get a 600 series card after that. I'd personally just skip the 500 series.

I have:

GTX570

I5 750 OC'd to 4.0 GHz

But I am CONSIDERING selling my mobo since it doesnt support SLI/Crossfire and my CPU, then buying a sandy bridge (or maybe bulldozer), new mobo, and another GTX570. I really didnt want to spend over 400 on parts when the only game that really needs it right now is BF3 :P. But I am so tempted, since I know I will be playing a lot of BF3 and I want to max it with 60 FPS.

i want to get new gfx/crossfire but not sure if its necessary for this game.

i want to get new gfx/crossfire but not sure if its necessary for this game.

metal_zombie

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i want to get new gfx/crossfire but not sure if its necessary for this game.

mitu123

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i want to get new gfx/crossfire but not sure if its necessary for this game.

metal_zombie

well i didnt buy it specificly for bf3 but i got a geforce 560ti...came with a free copy of arkham city :D

I'm happy with my GPU but sometimes I wonder how my CPU is keeping up in today's games like BF3. It's overclocked to the wall but I'm not so sure. Maybe I'm being paranoid. If I could gain like 10-15fps with a Sandy Bridge, that would entice me to go Intel.Elann2008

I was considering getting an sandybridge but it seems that bf3 loves my 1055t now overclocked to 3.8ghz too much.

I checked out other users results using one gtx 580 with the 2600k in this game and my performance was on par.

After helping a friend build his pc with a i5 2500k, it seems that I am fine for now. I did get a Corsair h100 this week though which performs brilliantly I must admit.

Don't intend to buy BF3 at all ... I do intend to get a GTX 590 around X-mas though ... probably :roll:

1. I bought a Nvidia GTX 560 ti

2. Getting right at 60fps, 1680x1050, and all settings on High/Ultra

3. I recently got a new PC so I bought the card for all games, not BF3 in particular. Skyrim & Arkham City helped me decide to purchase even more than BF3 did.

4. Cancel my paid off game? Hell no, BF3 is going to be great once it's out and the kinks really get ironed out. The beta was a small disaster but they are making up for it by letting us all play on Caspian now. It's going to be a very fun game, little doubt about that...