Best Card on the Market for CoD

[Novotny]

Why, it's the ATI 6990, of course. Hope nobody went out and bought anything by Nvidia in preparation for this title.

Anandtech & HardOCP are some of the first out of the gates with their reviews.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/19044/...uts/index.html

http://hardocp.com/article/2011/03/0...eo_card_review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4209/a...ngle-card-king

Ooo Shiny. As it is also International Woman's Day, I think I shall celebrate by emancipating my wife: I'm going to sell her and get one of these.

edit:: actually doesn't best nvidia in every test, but I like supporting the underdog, especially when he's a good bit cheaper and mostly better.

[HanneG]

0,25 € says the game will be CPU-limited ... but hey, it's your money. Also, a card that intentionally breaks PCIe specs, not to mention voids the warranty if run at full tilt? That's like selling a car with a V8 and expecting you to run it only on six cylinders lest the whole thing blow up

[T}{OR]

I am not a fan of any manufacturer, not Nvidia nor AMD. But this card seriously sucks IMO. Reviewers report temperatures so high that the test PC's rebooted themselves during benchmarks in order to save the card from overheating. Performance wise - mind blowing, but in reality - useless with a stock cooler.

Much better to save your money for CPU and get a decent card. The latest series from AMD is a flop - overheats like GTX 480 used to and can be used for heating purposes. A real shame on AMD's part that they can't take the lead and produce the proper card.

Btw. GTX 590 is due out on 15th March.

Originally Posted by HanneG

0,25 € says the game will be CPU-limited ...

+1

[sfmadmax]

Anybody have any comments regarding nvidia comments? I've been looking at the 580 however still waiting to make a purchase.

[Revvin]

I've generally used nVidia until recent years but AMD/ATi have really brought out some decent cards that really gave nVidia a run for their money. Bang for buck I went with AMD/ATi on my last upgrade and very happy with it.

[JG4_Helofly]

I recently bought a HD 6870. It works extremly well at max settings in games like battlefield bad company 2 or cod black ops (1920x1200).
I see no reason why IL2 shouldn't work with that card. And compared to the 6900 series it's much cheaper.
The real bottle neck will probably be the CPU, so get a good one.

[Novotny]

The wife won't let me sell her anyway. To be honest, I'd never go for the top of the range, as there's always a sweet spot, and if i were to be buying, I'd probably be looking quite closely at the 6870 and the 560ti.

[blampars]

I have 2x gtx 460s sli with an amd x4 955 processor which I over clocked to 3.8ghz. I have yet to run into any problems playing any games at a resolution of 1920x1080 . Even with games that don't utilize both cards like rise of flight, I can still run at max graphics with good frame rates. I don't think I'll have any problems running cliffs of dover with my setup. At least I hope not.
If I had the money to spare, I might spring for a new card from nvidia or amd but at that point I might as well build a new machine. Especially since mine is going on 3 years old now. Thank god for upgrades!

[TheEditor]

Originally Posted by JG4_Helofly

I recently bought a HD 6870. It works extremly well at max settings in games like battlefield bad company 2 or cod black ops (1920x1200).
I see no reason why IL2 shouldn't work with that card. And compared to the 6900 series it's much cheaper.
The real bottle neck will probably be the CPU, so get a good one.

You have it right, we can get by on lesser GPU's. What we really need is a CPU!
Something that clocks high like the new 2500K sandy balls! And before this starts a "but sandy bridge is broken" thread, Its not that big of a deal. I'd get:

2500K( 2600K is too much $ for for the difference)
Z68 MoBo (when they come out)
8GB 1600 RAM
I'm keeping my 2X HD 5770 CF AMD GPU (it = a 5870)
at least a 128GB SSD for OS and steam games(also don't start a whin fest bout steam) and old hard drive for other stuff

[SsSsSsSsSnake]

Originally Posted by Novotny

Why, it's the ATI 6990, of course. Hope nobody went out and bought anything by Nvidia in preparation for this title.

Anandtech & HardOCP are some of the first out of the gates with their reviews.

http://www.tweaktown.com/news/19044/...uts/index.html

http://hardocp.com/article/2011/03/0...eo_card_review

http://www.anandtech.com/show/4209/a...ngle-card-king

Ooo Shiny. As it is also International Woman's Day, I think I shall celebrate by emancipating my wife: I'm going to sell her and get one of these.

edit:: actually doesn't best nvidia in every test, but I like supporting the underdog, especially when he's a good bit cheaper and mostly better.

overpriced,overnoisy and overheated, just mho