With your money you do what you want, mate. As recoilfix wrote, with his system the peak power draw from the wall socket is 280 W. Make your math.

Cheers,
Insuber

a 450W will do, provided it's a superlatively good (and expensive) one; then if you o.c. an i7 and a gtx580 you will be pushing it to it's very limits; what's more, for somewhat less of its cost there are really good PSUs that will support an SLI or any O.C. that you make. you're money, your math...

I have a 1 gig ATI 5850. Will I see an improvement going to a NVIDIA 560ti? I've seen many good videos posted here from people with that card. Is it worth it to get the 2 gig version? I'd like to stay around $250 or under.

I've always been an ATI guy, what's the ATI equivilent to the 560ti? The 6850? How do both compare in CloD?

you know, goggle really is your friend

http://www.nvidia.com/object/product...-560ti-us.html
http://www.amd.com/us/products/deskt...verview.aspx#2

http://www.hwcompare.com/8916/geforc...adeon-hd-5850/
http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/N...ce_GTX_560_Ti/

maybe CloD will benefit a bit more, but i'd say anything short of 570 gives little to none upgrade in your case; the 560ti seems to be on 5850 hunting ground

the 570 1.3GB is around 300€ to start with; you will see real improvement over the 5850, but not to blow your mind; in your case i'd wait for the patch that is said to give maybe 50% more FPS, then about Q2 2012 the GPUs prices should fall a bit

+1

I can only speak for NV cards, I have stopped buying ATI cards for this game for over 5 years now so my ATI knowledge is limited:

The card to buy today is: none! Wait for the next generation comming in a few months.

If you must buy a card and want to spend the least money possible the GTX560ti 2Gb VRAM is the cost consious choice

If you must buy a card and want to spend some money because you are an IL2 addict so you will be spending hours playing online then the GTX570 2.5Gb VRAM is the best choice

If you must buy a card and you do not care about money, the GTX580 3Gb VRAM is the only choice of card today, anyway you will buy a new card when the next NV generation is out in a few months.


My 2cents

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I would agree with GR Athos, wait a bit and see how rumoured Kepler from nVidia will fare against the just launched 7900-series from AMD that beat down 580GTX(both 1.5 and 3Gb versions) in reviews. But without fanboism I can say we as gamers will have interesting times with the new GPU's pouring out. Just hope both driver teams + Luthier's team are up to it ;)

I know this has probably been said already (even though I didn't see it while skimming through the pages). Make sure that it's the 3gb Version, the game uses 2.4 GB of that over London, and if you don't have that be prepared for a 50% FPS drop.

I am using the 3 gig 580, I find it works great for this and most any
other game, have not had any issues with it. I get very good frame rates
with this game, I am a bit wondering at why the rates drop to 7 or 9 when
I land and dust kicks up..but other than that, it works quite well. Paired
with a new Turtle Beach Z6a the sound is great!

Gtx 680?
 

Waiting for the gtx 680 will be a year I estimate. If the keplar dropped today it would be about 7/8 months for the first 680 and another 3/4 for the high end extreme editions. Thats the timeline for the last 2 card releases from nvidia(480/580):eek: