GTX660tiOC

[ScorpioST]

Finally bought this game and tried to run it on the old ATI 5770...no dice, 17fps with everything on medium, pretty horrible. CPU is i5 750 OC'd to 3.4Ghz, so today I broke down and bought a Gigabyte GTX660tiOC, HOLY S**T, what a difference!! I was expecting better, maybe double, make it playable, but now running completely maxed-out every setting I'm constantly in the 60FPS range. It pretty much never dips below mid 50's except for some weird reason in clouds.

Anyway, if anyone was contemplating this card, do not hesitate. Don't know if the OC (factory overclock) makes much of difference over regular, but I wasn't expecting this much of an improvement.

[Stublerone]

Bought the wrong card, sry! We already have this discussion everywhere here in three different threads. Before starting a new thread, you should explore a bit. Every nvidia user makes his own thread of fantastic performances.

Sorry, but this is another spam!

[ScorpioST]

I did explore. I used this site to research what to buy, I found a lot of speculation and not a lot of feedback on that particular card. So I posted my results so that anybody who might think about going from my particular old card to this one might find the info useful. Obviously you do not so I call your response spam!

[vncnt]

Hi, I find your comment very useful because as you said lot of people talk about their card but never give feedback.
I almost have the same config than you except the video card, so I might buy the same one, was is a 3gb or a 2GB?

[ScorpioST]

Originally Posted by vncnt

Hi, I find your comment very useful because as you said lot of people talk about their card but never give feedback.
I almost have the same config than you except the video card, so I might buy the same one, was is a 3gb or a 2GB?

I thought my older 5770 DX11 card was pretty good, I play Black Shark, FSX etc on high settings, but the 660ti is such a huge improvement!! I got the 2GB card as I read a lot of negative comments on the 3GB for other games etc.

I also do a lot of video encoding, so I wanted Nvidia for the CUDA cores also, there are 1300 CUDA cores on this card so I'm hoping it will help with rendering etc, although so far it's not working the way I hoped in that regard. I strongly considered the 7950 but I got the 660ti cheaper.

[vncnt]

So I got an EVGA 660 3Gb vefore I could read your comment. To be honest I don't play other games than COD and I'm very pleased with the card.
I can finally really play, all details maxed out.

[Stublerone]

Sorry, but you searched wrong. Perhaps we not spoke about an oc model, but we spoke about the 660ti. Even it has enough vram for now, the vram interface is very low end at all new cards. Even a 580 is more sufficient. I just said, that you should read about 660 cards first before buying. It would be helpful!

You should state your resolution. I would say: even at 1080 p, which is a normal resolution, you would never ever get constantly over 50fps in this setup! Even on lower res I doubt, because at 1080p, even the best single cards will sometimes drop down to 30 fps!

And that is constant fact! There are also players in bf3 singing about 60fps all maxed out, but they are also proven wrong. In the benches only 2 cards hold up over 50 fps. And these are the top cards and noone else. Fact!

[T_O_A_D]

Originally Posted by Stublerone

In the benches only 2 cards hold up over 50 fps. And these are the top cards and noone else. Fact!

Don't guess I could get you to save me the trouble and have you post those two cards?

I'm not over excited about my 660 ti 3g FTW it does the job but its nothing over the the top.
It could be because I only have a 3.4 AMD pushing it though.

I had to OC the AMD to 3.8 to even start to get the 660 to get a move on.

In the BD track of CLOD I'm getting 31avg 61max 11min 1600x1200 rez. and that's only because I start the fps a few seconds before the Bomb drop. For some reason just like in the old IL2 the begging of the track has some hard frame hits for no apparent reason. So I start tracking after those hard freezes.

Here is a screen shot of where I'm starting the track at roughly.

[Stublerone]

So thats the reason! Without the big impact in the track, I get a constant over 70 fps on 1080p (mainly swinging between 90 - 120) with vsync on. That is no deal. I measure on the hardest points and there I get roughly 30 fps minimum. That is, what I am talking about.

[T_O_A_D]

I'm thinking possibly a solid state drive might help with the hard loads in the beginning, I'm betting its something with loading objects and the skins on them. I've got plenty of onboard ram and video ram. 16 meg on-board and 3 on gpu.

In-game normal play I don't get those freezes so far like in the BD track. Odds are because most mission builders are not putting in as many objects or after years of doing it on the original IL2 they build smarter to avoid these things, like we have for years.

Ya forgot to mention the two GPU's that do such a great job?