Your recommendation for more FPS without sacrificing in game video settings in BF4 ?

izthepain

Honorable
Nov 4, 2013
4
0
10,510
Hello Community,

I recently acquired a new PC for the pleasure of playing BF4 :)

I would like to get more FPS playing BF4 without having to sacrifice my in game video settings. I wish to run the game at stable 60 FPS by playing ultra settings with resolution set at 150% (1920x1080 - 1080p) and AA maxed out.

What would you recommend me ? At first, I was thinking crossfiring my GPU ?
Below are my PC specs. Thank you all in advance for your anwsers.

Motherboard - ASUS Rampage IV Extreme, Intel X79
CPU - Intel Core i7-3820, 4x 3.60GHz
GPU - AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
Memory - 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 (4x 4GB)
SSD - 60GB Kingston V300
HD - 1TB Seagate Barracuda
Power Supply - 600W - BeQuiet! SystemPower 7
CPU Cooler - Corsair H100i
OS : Windows 8.1

Budget : 700 euros ( 945 US $)
 
Solution
Yes your options would be:

1. Upgrade PSU and go with 2 GPU's in SLI
2. Use single current PSU and go with a single GPU

At 1080p I'm pretty sure a single GTX 770 would handle BF4 quite well. This initial review of BF4 BETA found the GTX 770 averaging 59.4 FPS.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-4-graphics-card-performance,3634-8.html

Keep in mind this will get better as nVidia drivers get optimized for the game release. Also the GTX 770 just dropped in price to 329$ making it incredible value at this time.

I would recommend: Keep your current PSU, get a single GTX 770 for around 350$. If you are not satisfied with this you can always get a new PSU (800W or more to be abslutely on the safe side) and get a second GTX...


Yes that is correct I play at 1920x1080 (1080p).
 
You could wait for the 780 to drop in price to $500 and buy that if you wanted to, or buy two 770s for $329 when they drop. The prices are supposed to drop when the 780Ti releases. The R9 290X would also be a excellent card for you to look at. I wouldn't recommend Crossfiring the AMD cards because I've heard they have bad drivers and I'm not sure if they've got that cleared up yet or not.
 
Yeah, for SLI it's generally recommended to have 850W for some headroom so your PSU isn't running 100% all the time under load. However, a good quality PSU will deliver more wattage than it is labeled for.
 
Yes your options would be:

1. Upgrade PSU and go with 2 GPU's in SLI
2. Use single current PSU and go with a single GPU

At 1080p I'm pretty sure a single GTX 770 would handle BF4 quite well. This initial review of BF4 BETA found the GTX 770 averaging 59.4 FPS.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-4-graphics-card-performance,3634-8.html

Keep in mind this will get better as nVidia drivers get optimized for the game release. Also the GTX 770 just dropped in price to 329$ making it incredible value at this time.

I would recommend: Keep your current PSU, get a single GTX 770 for around 350$. If you are not satisfied with this you can always get a new PSU (800W or more to be abslutely on the safe side) and get a second GTX 770 for mindblowing performance. GTX 770x2 in SLI will blow away even a 1000$ GTX Titan.
 
Solution
Without changing out your psu, I think your strongest upgrade would be to a GTX780 superclocked.
The R9-290X might be stronger, but it is more power hungry and might be too much for your psu.
There is a possibility that the upcoming GTX780ti might be able to run on your psu. You might wait to see what that offers.
 
Also assuming you are putting your operating system and BF4 on the SSD then 60GB won't be big enough. I have Windows 7, a few very small apps and BF4 on my 128GB SSD and I only have 10GB spare.