New PC ordered!! BF3 FPS guesstimates

[manxjason]

Hi guys, my first of hopefully many posts here. I've just ordered a new PC, upgrading from a Q6600 Quad @2.4ghz, 680i sli, 2x8800gts 640mb, 4gig ram. Unfortunately I was unable to run BF smoothly, even at lowest settings - all but the Seine Crossing map.

So, i've splashed out on a new machine, which I plan on keeping of top on in terms of upgrading over the years.

What im wondering is, what kind of FPS can i expect on Ultra settings, 1920x1080 single monitor, in BF3? I'm waiting on delivery at the moment, and as you can probably guessm pretty excited!!

COOLERMASTER HAF 922 MID TOWER GAMING CASE

Overclocked Intel® Core™i7-2600k Quad Core (3.40GHz @ 4.80GHz)

ASUS® P8Z68-V: USB 3.0, SATA 6GBs, NVIDIA®SLI™, ATI®CrossFireX

8GB KINGSTON HYPER-X GENESIS DUAL-DDR3 1600MHz, X.M.P (2 x 4GB KIT)

2GB AMD RADEON™ HD6970 - 2 DVI,HDMI,2 mDP - DX® 11, Eyefinity 4 Capable

Mem160GB INTEL® 320 SERIES SSD, SATA 3 Gb/s (upto 270MB/sR | 165MB/sW)

1TB WD CAVIAR BLACK WD1002FAEX, SATA 6 Gb/s, 64MB CACHE (7200rpm)

CORSAIR 750W ENTHUSIAST SERIES™ TX750COOLIT ECO II A.L.C

Genuine Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit

Thanks in advance

 

[Swinder]

As a whole the system looks decent but I personally would look at and even change the following;

GPU; Never been a fan of ATI so I would look at something in the nVidia 570 range (my opinion).

SSD; There are much quicker drives out there that take advantage of SATA-III 6Gb/s.

I do not see a CPU Cooler so I assume you are running stock. Maybe going with a Noctua NH-D14 would give you room to overclock a little for extra power.

As for FPS on that build, hard to determine but it should be enough to run at High borderline Ultra comfortably.

 

[manxjason]

Thanks for he reply.

With a budget in mind, I could get the 160gb sata2 or the 120gb sata3. I decided on a slower ferrari with more boot space rather than a faster Mcclaren f1, so to speak.

The 6970 performed better against the 570 on the benchmarks I seen, although I'm new to AMD too. BF3 was made with AMD in mind, so I've read.

I've opted for the coolit, liquid cooling block for the psu.

I'm not going to crossfire, waste of money in my opinion, especially for one monitor. I'd rather upgrade the gpu once it's becomes nessary. So I figured the 750w would be plentiful

Iveseen various YouTube videos on the 6970 handling ulta settings vary smooth, but on the i5.

Unfortunately not been able to see an FPS in the vids.

 

[Brooksie]

Thanks for he reply.

With a budget in mind, I could get the 160gb sata2 or the 120gb sata3. I decided on a slower ferrari with more boot space rather than a faster Mcclaren f1, so to speak.

The 6970 performed better against the 570 on the benchmarks I seen, although I'm new to AMD too. BF3 was made with AMD in mind, so I've read.

I've opted for the coolit, liquid cooling block for the psu.

I'm not going to crossfire, waste of money in my opinion, especially for one monitor. I'd rather upgrade the gpu once it's becomes nessary. So I figured the 750w would be plentiful

Iveseen various YouTube videos on the 6970 handling ulta settings vary smooth, but on the i5.

Unfortunately not been able to see an FPS in the vids.

BF3 wasn't designed with either AMD or nVidia in mind, although all of the BF3 demos were done with GTX 580's.

With my specs below, I get about 60-70fps on 1920x1080 everything high except textures which are on ultra. Could probably put more up but since theres not benchmark (or even a main menu) I really can't be bothered. Looks great anyway.

 

[leejc73]

I think you'll get around 30-40 fps on bf3@1920x1080 with ultra settings from that rig. I'm running a very similar system with a pair of 6950's and hitting between 60-75 fps.

 

[manxjason]

Think I should upgrade to the 3gb Nvidia 580 before they despatch it?

 

[manxjason]

Actually it's £170 extra - not worth it. Total build cost is £1450 already..

I'll upgrade further down the line

 

[manxjason]

for £20 i just upgraded to the corsair 850w and the i7 2700k @ 5ghz

 

[yassarikhan786]

Nice. Be sure to test the CPU with prime95, Intel Burn Test or something similar to make sure it's stable.

 

[manxjason]

thanks will do indeed.I ordered from pcspecialist.co.uk, they do a 48hr test on overclocked machines and warranty it too.

i will however do my own on delivery just to ensure.

 

[yassarikhan786]

thanks will do indeed.I ordered from pcspecialist.co.uk, they do a 48hr test on overclocked machines and warranty it too.

i will however do my own on delivery just to ensure.

Yep, that's a good idea

. Just out of curiosity, why didn't you have a go at building the computer yourself?

 

[manxjason]

Yep, that's a good idea

. Just out of curiosity, why didn't you have a go at building the computer yourself?

Its been 6 years or so since i last built a PC. I'm spending big money (big to me), about £1500 or just under. Ordereding from PC specialist give peace of mind, and someone else to blame if something goes wrong

ordering it all from them, their customer service is awesome. If there is a faulty part, they send out a replacement and you simply give the courier the fault part during the exchange.

all in all though, just for insurance really mate. The build charge is next to nothing and parts prices are competitive.

Take a look here: www.pcspecialist.co.uk. on the left navigation you can build a custom overclocked machine. you can select each individual component and they build to your spec. After you add each component, the price updates. Its a nice simple drop down menu and you never navigate from the build page when changing parts for price comparison.

they also have a great tool which auto detects whether or not any parts are incompatible etc

 

[yassarikhan786]

I considered using pcspecialist for the rig in my sig, but I decided on building it myself. I watched/read a number of tutorials before building and it was a peace of cake. I was kind of nervous putting it together as you would expect but everything turned out brilliantly.

The pcspecialist.co.uk prices are very good and I can understand why you chose that route instead of building it yourself

.

 

[manxjason]

I considered using pcspecialist for the rig in my sig, but I decided on building it myself. I watched/read a number of tutorials before building and it was a peace of cake. I was kind of nervous putting it together as you would expect but everything turned out brilliantly.

The pcspecialist.co.uk prices are very good and I can understand why you chose that route instead of building it yourself

.

You have a really nice spec. I wanted to go for the 580 but it stretched by budget a little too much. I also considered downsizing to an i5 but, im a mmo player, and mmos as we all know are CPU intensive rather than GPU, so decided to stick with the i7.

if i really need to ill crossire the 6970, although in all honesty i've seen vids with similar set ups achieving 50+fps in BF3, which is what im playing while waiting for swtor.

 

[yassarikhan786]

You have a really nice spec. I wanted to go for the 580 but it stretched by budget a little too much. I also considered downsizing to an i5 but, im a mmo player, and mmos as we all know are CPU intensive rather than GPU, so decided to stick with the i7.

if i really need to ill crossire the 6970, although in all honesty i've seen vids with similar set ups achieving 50+fps in BF3, which is what im playing while waiting for swtor.

The 6970's are very good cards as well. The reference cooler is supposedly quite loud though.

 

[Azurite]

I think you could have tried to just update MB, Ram and cpu. The Q6600 is holding back fps. Ive seen tests with q6600 vs 2600k/2500k and the fps is 30-60 more

Anyways. Its nice to upgrade hole system when u first splash the cash. Maybe you could try the two older cards in BF3 and let me know if any fps change?

 

[manxjason]

I think you could have tried to just update MB, Ram and cpu. The Q6600 is holding back fps. Ive seen tests with q6600 vs 2600k/2500k and the fps is 30-60 more

Anyways. Its nice to upgrade hole system when u first splash the cash. Maybe you could try the two older cards in BF3 and let me know if any fps change?

The q6600 certainly holds its own. I have a friend with Q6600 and a gtx580 and the game runs pretty smooth for him. I did have the option of doing that, but my last PC has lasted me years and so i thought id go ahead and splash on a whole new system. This time however ill be sure to keep it updated.

the old cards i had have been sold mate, along with entire system. Otherwise id be happy to test that for you mate.

 

[Azurite]

The q6600 certainly holds its own. I have a friend with Q6600 and a gtx580 and the game runs pretty smooth for him. I did have the option of doing that, but my last PC has lasted me years and so i thought id go ahead and splash on a whole new system. This time however ill be sure to keep it updated.

the old cards i had have been sold mate, along with entire system. Otherwise id be happy to test that for you mate.

Totaly understandable

Good luck with new build and high fps in newer games.