Nividia or ATI, Intel or AMD

[ICDP]

Anyone claiming AMD is worthles for CoD is talking bullshit quite frankly. CoD uses DirectX and so the OpenGL thing is moot. CoD has some very serious issues with both cards re graphics anomilies, such as lines in the landscape, shimmering, poor FSAA, concrete water tiles, flickering shadows. AMD 6XXX series cards also have 3 blue lines on the horizon at low altitudes. All of these issues will be fixed in the future, we hope.

Sandybrige 2500K is the best bang for buck CPU these days, having said that I changed from an i7 920 clocked at 3.8 GHz to an i7 2600K clocked at 4.8GHz and it made not one single pick of difference to CoD. Which bears out the fact that CoD is just not that well optimised, or that it isn't CPU limited. The best bang for buck graphics card is the AMD HD6950 2GB.

If money is no object and you are gaming at 2560x1600 resolution or less then get a Nvidia GTX580 1.5GB (or 3GB if you are really flush). If money is an object then get a AMD HD6970 or a Nvidia GTX570. If you are gaming with multiple monitors such as eyefinity then you will need to go multi GPU and you can forget about going less than 1.5GB for the RAM on each card. So AMD HD6950 or HD6970 in crossfire, a single HD6990 or SLI GTX580s (don't touch the GTX570 if you are going multi screen).

What resolution do you plan to go and are you on a budget?

[335th_GRAthos]

Nice explanations!

Originally Posted by ICDP

(don't touch the GTX570 if you are going multi screen).

Why not????

[ICDP]

Originally Posted by 335th_GRAthos

Why not????

Because at triple monitor resolutions the GTX570 hits the RAM barrier and goes to a crawl. Yes I noticed your smilie but answered anyway

[335th_GRAthos]

Hi ICDP,
the smile was because I have two of them in my rig flying with three monitors and 3072x resolution...

Yeah I guess you are right, you need 1,5+ Gb RAM to play CoD in very high resolutions...

~S~

[WSP_Zoop]

Originally Posted by ICDP

Anyone claiming AMD is worthles for CoD is talking bullshit quite frankly. CoD uses DirectX and so the OpenGL thing is moot. CoD has some very serious issues with both cards re graphics anomilies, such as lines in the landscape, shimmering, poor FSAA, concrete water tiles, flickering shadows. AMD 6XXX series cards also have 3 blue lines on the horizon at low altitudes. All of these issues will be fixed in the future, we hope.

Sandybrige 2500K is the best bang for buck CPU these days, having said that I changed from an i7 920 clocked at 3.8 GHz to an i7 2600K clocked at 4.8GHz and it made not one single pick of difference to CoD. Which bears out the fact that CoD is just not that well optimised, or that it isn't CPU limited. The best bang for buck graphics card is the AMD HD6950 2GB.

If money is no object and you are gaming at 2560x1600 resolution or less then get a Nvidia GTX580 1.5GB (or 3GB if you are really flush). If money is an object then get a AMD HD6970 or a Nvidia GTX570. If you are gaming with multiple monitors such as eyefinity then you will need to go multi GPU and you can forget about going less than 1.5GB for the RAM on each card. So AMD HD6950 or HD6970 in crossfire, a single HD6990 or SLI GTX580s (don't touch the GTX570 if you are going multi screen).

What resolution do you plan to go and are you on a budget?

CoD runs on Direct X? How does one know that? Then is Nvidia or ATI a much different question; running on Direct X?
If I understand correctly, then neither Nvidia or ATI is favoured using Direct X, but no matter which card is used their will be graphics problems at this stage of CoD's development.

Resolution for now is 1920X1200 and this won't change for a min. of 8 months
Budget is 1500.00
Thank you very much for your advice!

[jctrnacty]

As a cpu i recommned definitely intel I7
as a graphics card the choice is harder, 6970 has a lot of ram which is very important for high res textures and highresolution monitors, here i think is wiser choice amd with 2 Gb ram , i you have enough money then choose nvidia 580 with 3Gb ram its about 10 percent faster.

try to avoid the sli or crossfire, this technology is not mature enough and you will have a lot of headaches with drivers and game support. maybe in future this will change.

[Flanker35M]

S!

First of all, IL-2:CoD runs on DirectX 9 or 10 depending on settings. Even conf.ini proofs it if you do not believe what Oleg and Luthier said So either AMD or nVidia will run this game adequately given the brands provide driver support/profiles for it.

As of CPU it seems 2500K is the best bang for the buck for now. Paying over 100€ more for 2600K with HyperThreading this game does not even use is worthless IMO. Even my modest rig runs CoD very smoothly and I put most of the performance issues to the messed up coding of the game rather than GPU drivers.

So either way..AMD or Intel CPU or AMD/nVidia GPU is matter of preference. But I would go for something built around the Intel 2500K + Z68 chipset..

[TonyD]

As Flanker says, almost verbatim At the moment there is no better choice than the i5 2500k. As far as graphics cards go, this may provide some guidance if you’re thinking about the amount of VRAM that may be necessary: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/...o_card_review/

When it comes to CloD, I found the additional memory allowed higher detail settings without a frame rate penalty, but the difference wasn’t huge. More of it certainly doesn’t hurt, though.

[Widowmaker214]

get what you want :p

I prefer intel CPUs but know plenty that run AMD... I think intel will run faster but thats my opinion.

As far as video.. Nvidia.
Some of my regular fly buddies have had ATI, then swiched to nvidia..and refuse to go back.
to many troubles with drivers all the time.
I have an ati card in my latest laptop... only because I coudnt get it configured with an nvidia card and no other laptop I could get configured close to it.
and the driver crashes all the time. have updated it.. rolled back.
its just a mess. And I hear that same thing from my friends using ATI.
most have switched to nvidia.
I have 3 home built computers running nvidia, and one laptop. No issues.

[335th_GRAthos]

Just picking up on what ICDP mentioned regarding the 570GTX, he is right!

I fly nicely at 3072x resolution SLI with 70+ fps no problems as long as my VRAM is not full.
e.g. REPKA server islands with all options grass, shadows, roads etc etc.

If I fly on a heavier map (REPKA server channel island), the moment my VRAM is filled up above 1240Mb, I have 30fps.
If I lower the eye candy (roads, shadows, grass=OFF) the my VRAM will go up to 1140Mb and I continue enjoying my 70fps.

So, no matter what kind of card you are going to choose, make sure you have 1,5Gb and more if you want to enjoy.

My next card(s) will have 3Gb VRAM for sure (I only need a rig to fly IL2 and CoD so this is the only requirement), I bet it will be available by next year.

~S~

PS: thanks for mentioning ICDP, it made go back and start testing....