Graphics cards question (ATI)

[Kwalc297]

Look into the 6950 or 6970(6970 being the better of the two)

http://www.hwcompare.com/10589/radeon-h ... 0-oem-2gb/

[karambaitos]

yeah either a unlocked 6950 or a 6970, but you still wont be getting 60FPS on highest with that in most ARMA2 missions, BF3 will run fine though, of course it depends on your CPU as well

[Kwalc297]

With a 6950 you'll be able to play BF3 on highest settings at around 30-40 FPS. I play at high around 50 FPS with my 6950. ARMA runs very poorly on everything max, while BF3 runs as smooth as butter.

[whatshisname55]

You can't really predict how Arma2 will run on a card, it's too random and depends on CPU's as well. Also keep in mind your resolution as that plays a huge part in GPU performance.

With an Athlon2 630 x4 and an HD 5850, running at 1280x1024 I can max most of my Arma2 settings without much lag. I think I'm just lucky though, a lot of people have trouble running the game on high with much more powerful cards and CPU's.

The 6570 is a budget card and I would guess it isn't any better than a 5870. I doubt you would be able to max BF3 (depending on your resolution, of course). If you want a card to max out the latest games and stay useful for a while I would suggest getting a 6970 (or unlocking a 6950 if you are comfortable doing so). If that's too expensive for you then a GTX 560 Ti would be my next choice. If that's still too pricey, the cheapest card I can suggest for keeping new games at higher settings would be a 6870/6850. Any cheaper than that and you won't get close to the performance you're looking for, plus it won't last you as long either.

Remember that resolution has a huge affect on this. I think that 1920x1080 is the resolution that best fits my suggestions above. It would be helpful if you could say the resolution that you run at or plan on running at.

[MaSSive]

If you want to max all of those, you need a lot of greens pumped into your rigg. Like guys said above, it really depends on what cpu are you getting and on what resolution are you going to play. But sum is, you really need high end pc to achieve what youre upto. 6970 is on top now, below 6950, then gtx 560ti all below is not for what you want to do. Sandy i7 in pair with that would run fine.

[Pedz]

Cheers for the replies guys. I think im going to go for a 6950.

My current build plan is
Gigabyte AM3+ AMD 990 AX SB950 DDR3 ATX
Phenom II X4 980 3.7ghz
Gigabyte ATI Radeon 6950 870mhz 1gb pci-e
Corsair vengeance blue 8gb (2x4gb)

But now ive started thinking of a bulldozer CPU... has anyone got any experience with these? the FX-4 3.6ghz seems great for the money.

Cheers guys

Edit

I'd probably stick with the 990X actually, it has four actual cores, which are normally utilised better (especially games) than two modules running 4 threads

[Q2M100]

Good luck with your build!

If it helps, I have a Sapphire 6870 and it can run ArmA 2 on max with around 40FPS (the only setting I don't max out is the HDR setting as it isn't worth the slight FPS hit).

[Kwalc297]

Ide stick with the 2500K isntead of the bulldozer cpu's.

[MaSSive]

Exiled, this is mind blowing mate...are you an IT engineer or something? So much knowledge..I admit I'm a geek and advanced in this area, but you sound like you got PHD ffs

ps: sorry for OT

[Cossack]

I earned my PC knowledge in the same way Only thing is - I can only watch the new and awesome stuff in pictures and never touch it. Every single time I get my "new" PC, its 2 generations old.


On topic - AMD dont have that much horsepower as Intel solutions, but it will enough for gaming.