coolmd Posted September 5, 2012 Member ID: 2384 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1058 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 757 Achievement Points: 9390 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/10/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2024 Birthday: 01/18/1966 Device: Windows Posted September 5, 2012 Would welcome alittle help or advise.... .I am currently running I5 4gb ram..windows 7 32bit HD 5850.....1920X1080 monitor. I am thinking of upgrading the graphics card to either HD 7870 or poss HD 7950 or poss GTX 660ti..... I have read many benchmarks and they differ in the advise... I play alot of COD waw....so this already runs pretty maxed out but also I have started to play BF3 again..... I would like it to run alittle smoother with the graphics set higher...usually run it on low-medium not much AA Any advise would be welcomed...money is tight so dont wanna overspend if I dont need too. Awards
Markoff Posted September 5, 2012 Member ID: 54 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 90 Topic Count: 497 Topics Per Day: 0.09 Content Count: 4548 Content Per Day: 0.79 Reputation: 2334 Achievement Points: 32372 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 12 hours ago Birthday: 03/17/1965 Device: iPhone Posted September 5, 2012 hi m8 i'm running a ati saphire 6950 x 2gb great card runs every thing love it::::::: but i found this its 3gb as well http://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/Sapphire-Radeon-HD-7950-Overclocked-3GB-Graphics-Card-PCI-E-Mini-DisplayPort-DVI-/390435658231?pt=UK_Computing_Computer_Components_Graphics_Video_TV_Cards_TW&hash=item5ae7c759f7 coolmd 1 Awards
TheCheeseyCrusader Posted September 5, 2012 Member ID: 88 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 249 Topics Per Day: 0.04 Content Count: 3513 Content Per Day: 0.61 Reputation: 1893 Achievement Points: 23131 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 2 Joined: 09/02/09 Status: Online Last Seen: 8 minutes ago Birthday: 11/13/1991 Device: Android Posted September 5, 2012 i hear the 660ti is a f'ing beast and affordable too...i did see on the Nvidia facebook page showing all these different bench mark and shizz but your money you go for whats best BUT defo look at the 660TI coolmd 1 Awards
coolmd Posted September 5, 2012 Member ID: 2384 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1058 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 757 Achievement Points: 9390 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/10/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2024 Birthday: 01/18/1966 Device: Windows Author Posted September 5, 2012 cheers guys...I have found some benchmarks on the 660ti and for some technical reasons to do with AA or FAA it seems to outperform the 7870 and the 7950 in BF3 but not in others ...weird..... Awards
KaptCrunch Posted September 5, 2012 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 319 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4917 Content Per Day: 0.86 Reputation: 4134 Achievement Points: 39766 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 53 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted September 5, 2012 (edited) CoolMD also whats PSU you have ? does it have 40amp 12v rail support Edited September 5, 2012 by KaptCrunch Awards
coolmd Posted September 5, 2012 Member ID: 2384 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1058 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 757 Achievement Points: 9390 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/10/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2024 Birthday: 01/18/1966 Device: Windows Author Posted September 5, 2012 CoolMD also whats PSU you have ? does it have 40amp 12v rail support ERM good question I know it is a 850w so I am not sure about the 12v 40 amp bit......although if ohms law is right w=iv then I think it is ok....but i am not sure if it applies.... Awards
simplemod Posted September 5, 2012 Member ID: 623 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 21 Topic Count: 62 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1072 Content Per Day: 0.19 Reputation: 417 Achievement Points: 7809 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 10/24/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 27, 2018 Birthday: 10/26/1982 Posted September 5, 2012 My personal preferance would be NVidia. I have always used them, and had good luck for the most part. driver issues once in a while, but usually just using an older driver solves the problem until a proper update is released.
KaptCrunch Posted September 6, 2012 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 319 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4917 Content Per Day: 0.86 Reputation: 4134 Achievement Points: 39766 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 53 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted September 6, 2012 CoolMD also whats PSU you have ? does it have 40amp 12v rail support ERM good question I know it is a 850w so I am not sure about the 12v 40 amp bit......although if ohms law is right w=iv then I think it is ok....but i am not sure if it applies.... most will have a sticker stating the values for the outputs Awards
Merlin007 Posted September 6, 2012 Member ID: 2068 Group: +++ COD5 Head Admin Followers: 71 Topic Count: 1130 Topics Per Day: 0.21 Content Count: 8588 Content Per Day: 1.63 Reputation: 7561 Achievement Points: 76635 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 67 Joined: 12/25/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: 7 hours ago Birthday: 05/23/1973 Device: Android Posted September 6, 2012 My personal preferance would be NVidia. I have always used them, and had good luck for the most part. driver issues once in a while, but usually just using an older driver solves the problem until a proper update is released. I used to go with nVidia but with my latest upgrade, I went with AMD Radeon due to 1) found to be at the time, best bang for my buck as in not break my bank, and 2) a single card can support my 3 monitors which I don't believe nVidia can do even with their latest. It's all personal preference. simplemod 1 Awards
XxYouGotOwnedZz Posted September 8, 2012 Member ID: 3285 Group: **- Inactive Registered Users Followers: 3 Topic Count: 3 Topics Per Day: 0.00 Content Count: 31 Content Per Day: 0.01 Reputation: 7 Achievement Points: 207 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 03/11/12 Status: Offline Last Seen: July 14, 2015 Posted September 8, 2012 I would get a GTX 660 Ti and upgrade your ram to 8GB (ram is soooo cheap these days). BF3 has some Issue when your running ULTRA textures with less than 6GB of ram and especially if you are running Windows 7 32 Bit you are limited to about 3.2GB. You can upgrade your windows to 64 bit for free if you still have your license just download the .iso and put it on a usb key using Windows 7 USB DVD Download tool. You will have to format your hard drive for this procedure. Joe Canadian and WiZiD 2
coolmd Posted September 8, 2012 Member ID: 2384 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1058 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 757 Achievement Points: 9390 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/10/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2024 Birthday: 01/18/1966 Device: Windows Author Posted September 8, 2012 Cheers for the advice......I am gonna opt for the gtx 660ti oc version...as it seems to out perform the hd 7950 mainly on bf3....... I would have upgraded the ram but, not sure that I have a license key for windows 7 so I am gonna have to stay on the 32 bit version........I will hopefullt see a great improvement anyways......cheers again Awards
Blackbart Posted September 8, 2012 Member ID: 51 Group: Fallen Members Followers: 51 Topic Count: 342 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5974 Content Per Day: 1.04 Reputation: 3766 Achievement Points: 45818 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 09/01/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 27, 2021 Birthday: 06/26/1949 Posted September 8, 2012 (edited) Cheers for the advice......I am gonna opt for the gtx 660ti oc version...as it seems to out perform the hd 7950 mainly on bf3....... I would have upgraded the ram but, not sure that I have a license key for windows 7 so I am gonna have to stay on the 32 bit version........I will hopefullt see a great improvement anyways......cheers again Download "BeLarc Advisor" it is a free program and it will show all the keys to the programs you have installed on your computer... :) Edited for spelling error Edited September 8, 2012 by Blackbart Awards
KaptCrunch Posted September 15, 2012 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 319 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4917 Content Per Day: 0.86 Reputation: 4134 Achievement Points: 39766 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 53 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted September 15, 2012 (edited) test I ran was Pc Mark vantage....scored 14' date='000 with old card and 20,600 with new card....so time will tell but I think im getting there...never had this trouble with my old AMD card lol[/quote'] so seems that card is puting alot on stress on system, may need to get faster ram/cpu for your motherboard, will cure some of the stuttering. what is your spec of system Coolmd Edited September 15, 2012 by KaptCrunch Awards
fireurza Posted September 15, 2012 Member ID: 677 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 18 Topic Count: 172 Topics Per Day: 0.03 Content Count: 1457 Content Per Day: 0.26 Reputation: 791 Achievement Points: 9890 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 5 Joined: 11/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 16, 2024 Birthday: 02/20/1986 Posted September 15, 2012 Would welcome alittle help or advise.... .I am currently running I5 4gb ram..windows 7 32bit HD 5850.....1920X1080 monitor. I am thinking of upgrading the graphics card to either HD 7870 or poss HD 7950 or poss GTX 660ti..... I have read many benchmarks and they differ in the advise... I play alot of COD waw....so this already runs pretty maxed out but also I have started to play BF3 again..... I would like it to run alittle smoother with the graphics set higher...usually run it on low-medium not much AA Any advise would be welcomed...money is tight so dont wanna overspend if I dont need too. id recommende the ati 7770.... not gonna benchmark as high but it is really great and i think there is a 2gb version of it that is like 150... i built a pc a while ago that had 2 of them in it and it ran like a dream coolmd 1 Awards
BUDMAN Posted September 15, 2012 Member ID: 800 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 152 Topic Count: 139 Topics Per Day: 0.02 Content Count: 7109 Content Per Day: 1.26 Reputation: 4647 Achievement Points: 60467 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 6 Joined: 11/27/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 5 hours ago Birthday: 05/29/1957 Device: Windows Posted September 15, 2012 What chip set is your motherboard running ? Awards
Joe Canadian Posted September 15, 2012 Member ID: 822 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 87 Topic Count: 317 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 5477 Content Per Day: 0.97 Reputation: 5025 Achievement Points: 42632 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 20 Joined: 12/02/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: October 25, 2023 Birthday: 03/01/1967 Posted September 15, 2012 hi m8 i'm running a ati saphire 6950 x 2gb great card runs every thing love it::::::: but i found this its 3gb as well http://www.ebay.co.u...=item5ae7c759f7 I would get an EVGA Geforce GTX per sure, they are awesome cards.. Bart has a XFX Radeon 6950 x 2gb I believe, but it keeps crashing on him. Awards
coolmd Posted September 15, 2012 Member ID: 2384 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1058 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 757 Achievement Points: 9390 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/10/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2024 Birthday: 01/18/1966 Device: Windows Author Posted September 15, 2012 found that the Nvidia driver was shat....they just released another one and that sems more stable...getting BF3 on ultra at 50-90 fps...average 70 ish.... but this nvidia control panel annoys me...with like a million settings and than more settings for each game...lol...COD waw only running at 60fps.....lol...yet BF3 so much higher...still whatever......I will stick to AMD cards next time...never had any problems like this with my trusty HD 5850...lol Awards
coolmd Posted September 15, 2012 Member ID: 2384 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1058 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 757 Achievement Points: 9390 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/10/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2024 Birthday: 01/18/1966 Device: Windows Author Posted September 15, 2012 What chip set is your motherboard running ? Erm good question...ita an asrock P55 pro..i5 (not sure which one) about 2.5 yrs old....4gb ram..32 windows 7(unknown origin..lol) Awards
KaptCrunch Posted September 15, 2012 Member ID: 389 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 48 Topic Count: 319 Topics Per Day: 0.06 Content Count: 4917 Content Per Day: 0.86 Reputation: 4134 Achievement Points: 39766 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 53 Joined: 09/14/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: 1 hour ago Birthday: 01/01/1970 Device: Windows Posted September 15, 2012 Coolmd you can D/L Cpu-Z to find what motherboard and memory models Awards
coolmd Posted September 25, 2012 Member ID: 2384 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1058 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 757 Achievement Points: 9390 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/10/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2024 Birthday: 01/18/1966 Device: Windows Author Posted September 25, 2012 Coolmd you can D/L Cpu-Z to find what motherboard and memory models Sorry Kaptain...didnt see this question and not sure what you mean? Also update......the card is more unreliable than ever.....have gone through trying different drivers...numerous settings but still get game crashes on a regular basis.....still only rund codwaw at 60-70 fps and BF3 60-90 fps on ultra...lol Awards
Marauder-CDN Posted September 25, 2012 Member ID: 1777 Group: ++ COD5 Admin Followers: 30 Topic Count: 50 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 414 Content Per Day: 0.08 Reputation: 213 Achievement Points: 2989 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 0 Joined: 09/09/10 Status: Offline Last Seen: January 28 Device: Windows Posted September 25, 2012 If your last card was an ATI/AMD raedon and you just went Nvidia...you could be having driver conflicts if you didn't clean out all of the Raedon drivers and uninstalling them won't purge them out. try this and see if it helps http://www.afterdawn.com/software/security/system_cleanup/driver_cleaner_pro.cfm Awards
WiZiD Posted September 25, 2012 Member ID: 804 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.64 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 26 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Device: Windows Posted September 25, 2012 The best way I found to choose a better video card is to go here. http://www.gpureview.com/show_cards.php?card1=679&card2=667 Any better specs will be highlighted. He has an Intel chipset so he should be able to use either. Just a note if you change brands of video cards ie: ati to geforce Use a driver cleaner to completely remove ALL old drivers. If you need help please let me know.... Awards
coolmd Posted September 26, 2012 Member ID: 2384 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1058 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 757 Achievement Points: 9390 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/10/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2024 Birthday: 01/18/1966 Device: Windows Author Posted September 26, 2012 If your last card was an ATI/AMD raedon and you just went Nvidia...you could be having driver conflicts if you didn't clean out all of the Raedon drivers and uninstalling them won't purge them out. try this and see if it helps http://www.afterdawn...cleaner_pro.cfm Thanks for your help....tried this and it did find about 6 files i had missed so deleted them..reinstalled card and hey presto.....crashed in BF3 after 15 mins... Thanks Marauder for the advise..... Awards
coolmd Posted September 26, 2012 Member ID: 2384 Group: ***- Inactive Clan Members Followers: 69 Topic Count: 49 Topics Per Day: 0.01 Content Count: 1058 Content Per Day: 0.21 Reputation: 757 Achievement Points: 9390 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 1 Joined: 04/10/11 Status: Offline Last Seen: August 9, 2024 Birthday: 01/18/1966 Device: Windows Author Posted September 26, 2012 The best way I found to choose a better video card is to go here. http://www.gpureview...1=679&card2=667 Any better specs will be highlighted. He has an Intel chipset so he should be able to use either. Just a note if you change brands of video cards ie: ati to geforce Use a driver cleaner to completely remove ALL old drivers. If you need help please let me know.... Thanks...I had done alot of research and found the GTX 660ti to be a good card (2 days after I bought it they dropped the price of the HD 7970 which was my other choice....typical) I am still trying to get it to work properlly......still testing...thanks Awards
WiZiD Posted September 26, 2012 Member ID: 804 Group: *** Clan Members Followers: 32 Topic Count: 446 Topics Per Day: 0.08 Content Count: 3600 Content Per Day: 0.64 Reputation: 1053 Achievement Points: 24386 Solved Content: 0 Days Won: 4 Joined: 11/28/09 Status: Offline Last Seen: April 26 Birthday: 04/25/1960 Device: Windows Posted September 26, 2012 (edited) I just bought two SAPPHIRE 21197-00-40G Radeon HD 7970 3GB 384-bit GDDR5 PCI Express 3.0 x16 HDCP Ready CrossFireX Support Video Card And bought 4 Mushkin Enhanced Chronos MKNSSDCR60GB 2.5" 60GB SATA III Asynchronous MLC Internal Solid State Drive (SSD)..... also have a raid controler and this G.SKILL Ripjaws Z Series 32GB (4 x 8GB) 240-Pin DDR3 SDRAM DDR3 1600 (PC3 12800) Desktop Memory Model F3-12800CL10Q-32GBZL and this ASUS Crosshair V Formula AM3+ AMD 990FX SATA 6Gb/s USB 3.0 ATX AMD Gaming Motherboard with 3-Way SLI/CrossFireX Support and UEFI BIOS and this AMD Phenom II X6 1100T Black Edition Thuban 3.3GHz, 3.7GHz Turbo Socket AM3 125W Six-Core Also got the water blocks for the video cards, Motherboard chip set and north bridge. and CPU I have been waiting the better part of a year to get all the parts and I am ecstatic about my new build....... Edited September 26, 2012 by WiZiD Awards
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