What would be the best budget card for CoD

[Sven]

Interesting, I have a 5770, might go for another one, still waiting for more reviews concerning crossfire performance.

[*Buzzsaw*]

Originally Posted by Sven

Interesting, I have a 5770, might go for another one, still waiting for more reviews concerning crossfire performance.

Absolutely. Wait for the patch which will enable crossfire, wait for the player reviews.

BUT, if the game is well optimized for Crossfire, you would get a big boost at a small cost by adding the second 5770.

If you want to upgrade right now, or don't trust 1C to give good Crossfire performance in CoD, (dual cards were a problem in IL-2 for a long time) then you are better to pick up a single card which has 2048 mb of VRAAM built in.

EDIT:

The latest patch 'enabled' Crossfire, but it is not working well at all, will need a lot more work.

So WAIT!!

My two choices were GTX-560Ti 2 gig, or the ATI 6950 2GB.

I only got the Ati purely out of availability. Runs it well , I haven't overclocked it yet. Will you get much of a boost?

[matsher]

Most def the 6950 2gb or the 560Ti...

Best of all worlds, value and horsepower...
I am getting the 6950 2gb next month... Tough to choose between them.

I have a new AMD Mobo so I decided to go the ATI route because it is a better fit
for the system I have. I would suggest get the 560ti if you have an intel set up,
and Ati if you have a AMD set up.

But def one of those 2 cards - The 560 is NOT 20% faster than the 6950, in fact the 6950
is slightly faster across all tested games than the 560. But there is really nothing much between the two.

[Vengeanze]

Seems 2GB of VRAM is more or less a neccesity in this game as of current patch if you want to run on high settings without problems.

Someone mentioned running all maxed out and CloD took something like 1,7GB.

[*Buzzsaw*]

Originally Posted by machoo

My two choices were GTX-560Ti 2 gig, or the ATI 6950 2GB.

I only got the Ati purely out of availability. Runs it well , I haven't overclocked it yet. Will you get much of a boost?

Salute

How to and specs is here:

http://www.techpowerup.com/articles/...ng/vidcard/159

Remember to think carefully about what you are doing and decide if you want to take the risk of overclocking. In many instances users can get a lot more performance for minimal risk. But if you take it too far, and your card overheats, you could end up with an expensive desk ornament.

[Orpheus]

ATI cards don't seem to be running at full clock and as of yet there's been no explanation that I'm aware of. My 5770 runs something like Call of Pripyat at 850 core clock, and CloD never goes above 400.

Until/if this is fixed, I'd go with Nvidia.

[Robotic Pope]

Nobody has said anything about power supply yet. The fact that his pc currently has only onboard graphics means its probably a store bought PC with a weak PSU.

To the OP, if this is true then you will have to add the cost of a new PSU to the price of any of the graphics cards that have been mentioned here. The ATI 5670 is probably the best you can get without upgrading the PSU, but then that probably isn't a fast enough card for Cliffs.