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

[Thee_oddball]

Originally Posted by Stublerone

Low resolution? Graphics details lowered? You can have success with every card with vram bigger than 2! Again: clod is not about graphics. It is about vram and a balanced system with good cpu and suitable gpu.

A subjective answer like "my system runs it great" is not sufficient. Perhaps you do not see, what others do? Some guys also say, that their gtx 295 runs great in a certain game. When I came to them to test, the microstutters were terrible. They do not see it! So this is subjective.

FWIW I recently bought the 660SC (super clocked) and i can now run BF3 at 1920x1080 on ULTRA settings with an avg fps of 45-60. i did a quick test with the black trk and it was very smooth as before with my amd 6790 it would stutter

You can get the 660sc for $230 at microcenter and if they still have the deal going you get assassins creed 3 or borderlands 2 when you buy any 6 series card Here are some nice benchs to help put things in perspective.

http://benchmarkreviews.com/index.ph...1&limitstart=7

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages...review,18.html

S!

[Lynx11]

I have good overall performances with maximum settings but without shadows...
Shadows for me are a fps killer...
I have a Q6600@3.0mhz 4gbDDR3@1333 GTX660ti Jetstream 2gb and i run the game @1900x1200

maybe shadows are more CPU dependent? who knows?

Ciao!

[Stublerone]

You can get 45-60 fps with every new card on ultra settings. It depends on your resolution, which you do not mention. Is it ultra preset or custom made up to every ultra setting? Is it with aa, fxaa, msaa or what? You haven't mention a lot of things to come to your ultra fps rate. In real ultra and with everything on highest setting and with a res of 1080p, your card cannot reach that. The only cards who can reach this iste 680 overclocked and the 7970 ghz edition (alsi overclocjed).

So this is misleading. It also depends on multiplayer or singleplayer fps. They are also different. So, your statements with your 660sc is obsolete! Sorry!

[Thee_oddball]

Originally Posted by Stublerone

You can get 45-60 fps with every new card on ultra settings. It depends on your resolution, which you do not mention. Is it ultra preset or custom made up to every ultra setting? Is it with aa, fxaa, msaa or what? You haven't mention a lot of things to come to your ultra fps rate. In real ultra and with everything on highest setting and with a res of 1080p, your card cannot reach that. The only cards who can reach this iste 680 overclocked and the 7970 ghz edition (alsi overclocjed).

So this is misleading. It also depends on multiplayer or singleplayer fps. They are also different. So, your statements with your 660sc is obsolete! Sorry!

ULTRA preset for BF3 @1920X1080 and same rez with settings for CLOD @VERY HIGH (preset) i got an AVG of 36 on black death trk and 32 FPS at roof top level over london. the 660SC is a nice mid range card that can play both games with good picture quality.

[Stublerone]

Avg fps are so unimportant in this case. See, what your minimum fps are is more interesting. bf3: the best cards reach generally about 69fps or something like that. So why should your card should perform that as well? Because it do not? Is 45-65 more 45? That should explain it. Sorry, but I do not understand, why people always add their own opinion in fps to their new gfx cards!?!

For the people it always work 10-20fps better than in officual benchmarks.

BTW: Don't forget to add additional 10-20% of the fps on every 7xxxx series (bf3 = round about 20%) - in newer benchs the ghz editions should be in front of the 680 (nearly equal). Add more speed (overclocked editions or handmade) in the 7xxx series and get another 10-20%.

[Volksieg]

I will say that I am playing BF3 on Ultra settings with fairly great performance (Without AA, though).... CloD is running beautifully but definitely not on very high (A mix of high and medium).

I'm thinking that both may open up a hell of a lot more, performance wise, when I ditch this CPU and mobo and get some serious ram in my case.

[Stublerone]

Ram is unimportant in your rif. The cpu burns the performance in some cases. Bf3 @1080p at 35 is normal value, but you can get higher with the suitable ati. Even a 580 gets that fps.

You can see in your own posts, that your initial advertisement about your video card has proven wrong with your own posts. Please stopp advertising things with 10-20% more performance than it actually has.
It can be, that you are satisfied so far, but if I do not know, which is better, then please do not write down a recommended card. Simple as that! No knowledge should result in no post or in a post with the facts you really can offer him.
Promises are already given by nvidia and should not be completed by you.

Btw: nvidia recently had to state, that another lie was written on the boxes of the 6xx series. They tried to make a fool of you and simply tried to ship around the directx 11.1 problem with software trying to wash the request away. But now you can say, that the stated directx11.1 support does not seem to be available. Cruel truth and I am waiting, what lie they find next.