CplMOFO

Marauder-CDN the prices jumped Saturday afternoon....a WD 2TbEARS drive went from $79 to $129 http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16822136514 knew I should've ordered it...rats Lol, not sure I would call them rats...somebody got flooded remember lolz!

Yes, Good point...

X-RINGCUTTER>XI< OC'D 560ti's should beat that weak ass 590 lol but yes screen res is the main variable but if you weren't overclocking the cpu and had 2 strong cards, it would bottleneck. On stock speeds it would cut fps but you are also right fps won't go up much going from 3.6ghz(mild) to 4.2ghz(high as most 920 will go on air cooling). The price of any 580-590 or 6990's or way too high! IMO X-ring, I'm still staring at your freakin avatar.......

Heffalump Well Mofo, i took your advice and ordered the dual bios Sapphire 6950 2048mb twin fan edition Dirt3. With me Tuesday,thx for the advice You'll like it! it's got a pretty good review from HardOcp: http://www.hardocp.com/article/2011/07/25/sapphire_hd_6950_2gb_dirt_3_video_card_review/1 With a 2GB frame buffer, you should run the game on all HIGH, with a few ULTRA settings, especially with vSYNC enabled... I'm an nVIDIA guy myself, but this Sapphire card you ordered did really a good impression! A trick with the 6950 mods tho... you can mod the card to enable all the shaders, but you don't want to mod the memory.... I think that the dual BIOS switch has the already-loaded tweaked BIOS (to turn the 6950 into a 6970 "shader-wize") Enjoy!

X-RINGCUTTER>XI< good review but no overclocking on the cpus doesn't show true performance. If the used the 3gig version of the 580 or evga classified 580 card it would smoke the crossfire setup listed at the top of gpus. My 470's perform better than the test results on ultra setting and with 2xmsaa, I never go under 60fps @1920x1200 Well, This post could be a melting pot of all the reviews/benchmarking about BF3 (release)! Like the old saying says: your mileage may vary! I also get numbers a little different that what's in the review... (dual 560Tis here) But, while you're partly right about CPU overclocking, indications tend to show that any quad mildy clocked would be enough and won't lead to FPS increase...BF3 is a lot more GPU dependant. For the graphics cards, and the EVGA 580 3Gb...well, pretty limited edition, and the price is retarded. I was the proud owner of an EVGA GTX590 classified for a few weeks and although that card was powerful, I get the same 3Dmarks11 Pscore with my two 560TI's Twin frozrII OC...of course it's all resolution dependant...... That being said all info is beneficial to the people shopping for new hardware!

Howdy, ****UPDATE**** Please feel free to post any reviews related to BF3 performance with existing hardware!!!! A pretty good link from TECHSPOT: http://www.techspot.com/review/458-battlefield-3-performance/ It covers GPU and CPU performance with the release version of the game...

To add-up to this, Thanks for all XI members playing Battlefield 3 and enjoying the new game, great graphics, 64 players madness...thanks for your patience in relation with the issues the servers are getting... The server keeps resetting, we all know that by now. It's happening to a LOT of servers. so, I realize people are pissed, but as there is nothing we can do until it's fixed on DICE's/Gameservers end, well let's not turn our TS3 channel into a whine-fest. It's being looked into. It's game release...people have to get real...no more games will come out 100% functional anymore. Games are becoming more and more complex. BF3 offers 64 players batttlefield experience, that why we bought the game. but it's a lot more complicated and demanding on the server hardware/bandwidth/internet connections and everything... no fire without smoke (according to the old saying)... Games like COD Black ops teached us one thing...if you dare buying a game on day one, be ready to BETA test...get ready to search/try/reset/reload/tweak...and wait... If you can't stand software instability, WAIT IT OUT!

Hemps, Sad to say, but you'll eventually have to consider a GFX card upgrade if you want to enjoy BF3....not too sure how BF3 looks on LOW, prebably not too bad, but get at least a 6870, if possible a 6950 if you can (and want to stick with AMD)...on the nVIDIA side of things, a GTX560 is where you want to start looking I don't particularly like Tom's hardware, but this guide is well made, and covers FPS for single cards and SLI/crossfire setups.... http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-3-graphics-performance,3063.html

Have a good one Cpl!

So, after all this what is the verdict? The CPU was ok?

PrimalFear I'm totally patient and really not even worried about it to be honest I was just curious as I stated, had a conversation with another member who had mentioned it and thought I would ask, nothing more. I'm afraid you misunderstood my position. Thank you for answering the question though, the situation is exactly what I thought it was, I'll pass along the information. Lol, I'm just saying...the days of having everything working right on day one are long gone. Now, every game seems to bring it's share of teething problems.... DICe flew "phogue", the programmer of PROCON from Autralia (his home turf) to Sweden (DICE's HQ) to get him to learn on the BF3 RCON particularities ONLY 2 days before launch....

Well, stalker, There was issues with authentification last night...try again today...

PrimalFear - XI BF3 Server Question This is just a question, everything is new so it would be unrealistic to expect anything, but I wanted to ask anyway. Is there a process to get on our BF3 server yet? I assume no passwords yet, but is an admin even able to assist with this yet or still just gotta wait it out? It's full and can't get on right now. Like I said just a question not a demand or anything, thanx in advance Sad thing...game as been out for two days and our members areb eing impatient already? To answer the question, it's a matter of server control. DICE has been really secretive with the BF3 launch and DIDN'T release server files to programmers/developers of RCON (server control software) until just a few days ago...they scrambled to make something up, but with defects, bugs, and no hosting services as of yet. So no fully functional/reliable. That being said, 99.9999999999% of the time, you'll be able to join at map change....and while you do so, there is admins working on a solution... Once a proper RCON is working and hosted, it will be done (a matter of days really).. In the meantime, patience young padawan!

Actually, some of you people noticed that there was an activation error message on Origin last night...stuff they're working on...

Sonovabich Our server was empty all day yesterday (the time i was online anyway) hope we get more Europeans playing or i will have to play elsewhere, i think they scored an own goal with this not letting you play until there is 8 people in the map, nobody is gonna sit around in an empty server on the off chance another 7 people are gonna come in Well, Sonova, if you say that nobody is gonna sit around to populate, well some idiots with dedication will have to do it. Actually, that is a really good "action", the right thing to do, to get the server started. If not, why do we run servers? If the minimum player requirement is lowered, you lose the quick match traffic as a result...not really a better proposition.

Pretty nice! A few kinks to work out I agree...but Primal is right....there is stuff for everybody in this game....

DEEREJON, Seems like you got it working man, I seen you in game. I bought the disks myself, and it took me 20 minutes to install...I needed to put disk 2 in there...anway...strange shyte!@

Howdy, Enjoy your stay!

Best game ever period!!!

Hi, This is the latest from AMD to support BF3! I hope they put something better online soon, this is supposedly for the BETA (they had two BETA drivers...this is the latest one) http://support.amd.com/us/kbarticles/Pages/GPU124AMDCat1110PreDriverV3.aspx AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Version 3 Preview Driver Back Last Updated 10/18/2011 Article Number GPU-124 AMD Catalyst™ 11.10 Version 3 Preview Driver Features: Reduces random crashing and stability encountered when playing Rage on Windows® 7 32-bit edition Reduces object / animation flickering and texture corruption encountered when playing Rage Reduces stuttering seen on Dual CPU and Tri CPU core systems Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon™ HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products. Improves performance in Battlefield 3 Open Beta release for both non-Anti-Aliasing and application enabled Anti-Aliasing cases on AMD CrossFire™ configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products. Improves performance in Rage on single GPU configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000, AMD Radeon HD 5000 Series and AMD Radeon HD 4000 series of products. Reduces intermittent crashing seen loading levels in Rage Reduces flickering of NPCs in Rage Enables automatic Vsync for Rage Enables support for AMD Eyefinity 5x1 display (portrait and landscape) configurations using the AMD Radeon HD 6000 and AMD Radeon HD 5000 series of products. AMD Vision Engine Control Center: User Interface enhancements have been implemented for the AMD CrossfireX™, GPU AMD Overdrive™ and Information Center pages.

tsw 8.5 played it to night ..but all i have to say is LAG..LAG game will get better i hope ..it is fun some things are not as i thought ..but that is how they get us in the game ..say 1 thing and give you some thing different ..but i hope it gets better .. TSW, To be honest, I played 12 hours yesterday. I lagged (rubberbanding) on three or four maps during the 12 hours gaming time for me. Not bad for a launch day.

Hi, nVIDIA released their WHQL (windows tested and certified) BF3-ready drivers...I tested them and got a good 3Dmarks11 score with them, which tells me they are performing well... http://www.geforce.com/News/articles/nvidia-geforce-285-62-whql-drivers-released

Ruggerxi CplMOFO Ruggerxi I will be there when I get home from work. 3pm Central! See ya in there boss! http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/173.199.90.38:25200/ I have it on our main page already at the very top. I just need Phantom to change the color so its more noticeable True...and once you'll claim the server on that page, the stats will be tracked!

Ruggerxi I will be there when I get home from work. 3pm Central! See ya in there boss! http://www.gametracker.com/server_info/173.199.90.38:25200/

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