CPU or GPU?

[JuvenileJonesy]

I currently run a AMD Phenom II X6 1045T (Cooler Master Hyper 212), 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3 1600, Sabertooth 990FX Mobo, Cooler Master 700W PSU, GeForce GTX 460 x2 SLI.

I want to play Battlefield 3 at Ultra not just High settings, if anyone could comment on what would best be my upgrade to accomplish this I would appreciate it. I am an AMD fan not Intel, I have no preference of NVidia or ATI. My budget is $300 I would like not to go over. I have considered;

FX 8150 Black Edition 3.6GHz Eight-Core Socket AM3+ Boxed Processor
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0375764

or

012-P3-2068-KR NVIDIA GeForce GTX 560 Ti Classified 1280MB GDDR5 PCIe 2.0 x16 Video Card
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0380277

I'm not set in my ways to these items an anyway it is just what I was thinking about before asking for advice.

 

[Rockdpm]

Don't by bull dozer, your 1045 is better. if you want a better CPU....

Phenom II 1090T or 1100T. i have the same motherboard as you and i had to get off bulldozer, when i made the switch to Phenom II 980 yesterday, i could finally run BF3 at ultra with Stable frames.


A GTX 560 ti will not be a upgrade over your SLI.

My advice would be wait for the lower end Kepler cards when they arive in just 2-3 weeks. the mid range cards will have 2GB of Vram plenty of Vram for BF3 Ultra

 

[antonisrsx]

your cpu is ok. you have to buy a better gpu. if you play bf3 in 1080p you have to spend more money on gpu. ght 560 ti 448 isnt enough for ultra...

 

[Rockdpm]

Yea your gonna need atleast a high end GTX 580 or one of the Kepler cards to run 1080p BF3. I can only run BF3 ultra on campaign, i don't have quite enough vram for Multiplayer.....Ill have a GTX 680 soon enough. (If they ever come back in stock)

 

[seumas_beathan]

Your current setup seems very good

 

[Rockdpm]

Yes but not good enough to run 1080p smooth on ultra

 

[JuvenileJonesy]

What about?

012-P3-1573-KR NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 HD Superclocked 1280MB GDDR5 PCIe 2.0 x16 Video Card
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0363755

or

025-P3-1579-AR NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 HD 2560MB GDDR5 PCIe 2.0 x16 Video Card
http://www.microcenter.com/single_product_results.phtml?product_id=0373304

 

[firo40]

are your 460's OC'D that could hel stabalize framerate for you

 

[koogco]

A GTX 570 might be enough for ultra depending on your tolerance for framerates. My cousin seems happy with that at ultra, but I haven't seen it and don't know what fps he is getting.

 

[ringzero]

Get a Radeon 6990 or two 7970s. That should cover it. Otherwise, you already have a very nice system.

 

[Rockdpm]

are your 460's OC'D that could hel stabalize framerate for you

His GTX 460's could Max BF3 all day if they had more Vram, but 1GB is just not enough. I use up almost a 950mb just running it on High

 

[Rockdpm]

Yea he needs to wait for Price drops, because nothing other than a 570 is in his budget to power BF3 Ultra

 

[JuvenileJonesy]

Say I increase the budget to 400$ does that help?

 

[Rockdpm]

Yea, but you still gotta wait for Kepler to get here, i mean you could get a 7950 with 50$ more....but my advice wait for the rest of Kepler to get here. it won't be long.

NVIDIA should be rolling it out close to mid april

 

[mitunchidamparam]

Get a 7870 that wold be the prefect card.
When over clocked can reach the performance of a 7970.
It uses so much less power and your processor is good enough.

 

[JuvenileJonesy]

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