The truth is, you guys bought DX11 cards too early.GazaAli

I bought a 5870 and I am very pleased with it. The DX11 is a bonus and not the main reason to buy a new high end card, its not like older games run perfect on last generation hardware. I waited for the 480 to release because I use a step up program, i loose 10% of my component value in 6 months, and because of the price didn't drop and actually grew I can actually take it back and get more money than what I payed. I think i can upgrade with 100 dollars more to a 480 but i think the 480 is a failure. The performance is decent,(not worth the extra 100 dollars), maybe it will be cheaper here in Romania, i got the 5870 at launch for 355 dollars. Everything besides the decent extra performance is a failure. I don't want to have my card melt like my friend's 8800GTX. The temperature to almost 100 * C is dangerous. Also the power consumption is crazy. My electric bill will go through the roof.

http://www.pcgameshardware.com/aid,743498/Geforce-GTX-480-and-GTX-470-reviewed-Fermi-performance-benchmarks/Reviews/?page=10

Crysis Benchmark for the poster above me.

Ah it failed...

The wait was in vain...

Here's the order:

1. Half-Life 2 (full-game)
2. Episode 1
3. Episode 2

...everything else is just gravy.

Enjoy them!

AFBrat77

I have an 5870, game runs great, everything maxxed out except DX11 DOF which seems to be the real killer in performance,
settings 1650x1050 out of my 2304x1440( not my usual resolution but it seems this is the best playable for me), AAA, Tessellation on,Advanced physics on, very high settings, DX11.
35 to 90, mostly sits around 50's and rarely dips to the high 30's.

This game also has a great motion blur which makes low fps seem smoother.

The game is absolutely stunning, from graphics to sound, from the art st.yle and atmosphere to the amazing shooting.
Seems very polished, haven't encountered a bug yet. Graphics are above crysis on every level.
Played a few chapters and i can't get enough of it.

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[QUOTE="macronia"]Is the game run fine on ATI ?? or it is another nVIDIA title?macronia

No such thing as an nVidia title.

nVidia just advertises themselves in games, but there is no such thing as 'nvidia title'

Game work on every brand of card.

Well his sig says he's using the MA790FXT-UD5 and the 955. If those are the two he's talking about, then it shouldn't be incompatibility errors.

ravenguard90

Remember me? With the nonstop bluescreen errors? Hell i bought every single hardware apart from cpu in order to pinpoint that the problem was the cpu. So i found out it was the cpu and not the os, i returned the cpu and after 2 months they returned me a new one. I try the cpu and after a week and ta-daa, the same blue screen errors apear. I bet that if i return the cpu, it will turn out to be faulty as well :roll:

Unbelievable, the amount of fail in amd is amazing. The funniest thing is that i always was an amd fanboy but now i am trying to sell mobo and cpu and switch to intel. What the hell can possibly cause all this? The cool and quiet? Or the cooler?

Also i forgot to mention that the stock coolers for phenoms are too noisy and weak. amd is useless when it comes to stock coolers. So i am using ASUS Triton 81 with artic silver paste. The cpu says its am2/ am2+ is that what i am doing wrong? Because i thought that am2 and am3 have the same size so it should work too on am3.

What the hell damn it? I return the cpu, i use a powerfull cooler with pretty good paste and i do not stretch the cpu, i play old games and spent most of the time not playing games in order not to use the cpu much. However thats not enough. So i got a powerfull cpu and i am afraid to use it!!!

Can you even believe that? I am afraid of using the cpu, not reaching it to its limits, just using it and i even have alot of cooling asist far superior from the stock.

Yet i get to suffer. Perhaps its my mobo, but Newegg sold my cpu with my mobo together, yet i had to update bios to detect the cpu speed correctly. So forget that, EVERYONE is useless and unreliable, everything!!!

Do you think it might be something else this time? Because i checked the mobo and it aint it. So here i am back in square one, doing the same trial and error effort trying to desperatelly find whats wrong. I honestly cant take it anymore. How about intel eh? Should i switch to intel?

dakan45