New Graphics Card - GTX 660 non Ti or 7850/7870

[Matt255]

Originally Posted by vranac

With fast CPU and your new 660 Ti you should be capable of running everything maxed out, 660 Ti is much stronger card then 560 Ti.

I guess running maxed out means different things for everyone. If I fly alone over the English countryside, I get a constant 60 FPS (which is the limit I'm using), but with more planes and over London, I wouldn't say that I can run it maxed out with smooth FPS (it's not stuttering or freezing or anything though).

Originally Posted by vranac

With fast CPU you wan't get much in avarage fps, but you will get rid of pauses and stutters.CPU speed helps when textures are moved between RAM and VRAM.

If you run everything maxed out (especially textures) then yes. The OP doesn't want to be able to do that though.

Originally Posted by vranac

Most of other games are not CPU dependent.This one is, like it was old il2 in that time.

Depends a lot on the settings. If you want to run it maxed out in all situations, you need both. I didn't write about the situation on other games.

Originally Posted by vranac

Point is that Timon can buy 680 and will have problems.System have to be balanced or the weakest component will be the bottleneck.

Of course, but that's what he already posted in his topic. He can't afford to upgrade both his video card and CPU at the same time and he is ready to make a compromise and reduce settings if he has to.

[Timon83]

Thx all of you for your comments.

I think I'll go for the GTX 660 2GB as it seems the most reasonable choice for my system. It is quite, cool and energy efficient. It doesn't make sense to buy any better for me or even an older generation card like the GTX 570 as I only have a 450 Watt PSU (beQuiet).

I have two favourites: Asus GTX 660 DirectCU II or MSI GTX 660 TwinFrozr

Which one would you take? The price is basically the same.

[Richie]

I've had nothing but success with my MSI GTX 560 TI. It wasn't that expensive $300 on ebay. March 2011. I've never had any of the crashes or freezes. I have 12 gigs of corsair ddr3 ram and I think that helps. Mother board is an Asus P6T deluxe version 1

[d.burnette]

Same here, I have the EVGA GTX 560 Ti 2gb card and the sim has been solid for me.

[Stublerone]

Originally Posted by Richie

I've had nothing but success with my MSI GTX 560 TI. It wasn't that expensive $300 on ebay. March 2011. I've never had any of the crashes or freezes. I have 12 gigs of corsair ddr3 ram and I think that helps. Mother board is an Asus P6T deluxe version 1

It does not help! Your RAM is big enough, when you use 6gb in current systems (except you are using ram disk for something).

[Richie]

What I did was watch all the reviews on everything on youtube.. Linus on tech types on NCIX in Vancouver mainly and others. I didn't want to bother with any water cooling that was the main thing. Then bought all of my stuff after about two months of mulling everything over. If you want detailed reviews on products I would go to NCIX tech tips with Linus on youtube.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vJKBK48OcKQ

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1cgcZ...feature=relmfu

[Stublerone]

Oooooooh noooooo, not this guy!!! I also saw couple of reviews about several topics. He is agood presenter and some information is quite good. But this guy often advertises something and in another episode he completely say the other way.

Had seen reviews about gfx cards, monitors and recently some keyboards. Interesting, but it is not, what I would make my decisions on.

I mean: This guy has to serve the main market and this is casual playing modern warfare, bf3 and other shooter guys and this is clearly not, what I want to know, especially in core hardware like gfx cards and cpu, etc.

I rely on professionals. In monitors for example on tests from prad.de.

[Richie]

Well I got very lucky then because I haven't had any trouble with this game. It must be my genius