Asus nvidia gtx 560ti 1gb. can i play Bf3 well?

[carling220]

I've looked at the BF3 thread, but it's full of conflicting views and some strange comments really.

Basically, I just got a new system ordered.

i5 2500K
asus gtx 560ti 1gb
8gb ddr3 1600mhz kingston ram


Will this let me play battlefield 3 online, in decent graphics? I know i can't run ultra from the thread. But in 1080p, could I still run high and more importantly, will it look good and be playable?

I'm assuming if this is so, empire total war and say, rage, would be generally OK?

If not it looks like I need to double up on my 560's or change the order. It just seemed, the 580 is significantly more expensive. Whether the difference is worth it? I hope i was right in thinking, this setup should see high level of detail, if not ultra, on most games?

Any help appreciated.

 

[Puppies04]

I run BF3 on high with my 560ti and it runs sweet as a nut.

 

[wand3r3r]

Yeah, you can probably run with most settings maxed but just not AA and possibly a couple other settings turned down a bit.

 

[Grooveriding]

With a healthy overclock on your 2500K you should be able to play on high without MSAA turned on at 40FPS @ 1080P in 64 player servers.

 

[TheAdvocate]

runs like a champ on mine (sig rig).

 

[carling220]

Never done any over clocking before, but i'm lead to believe it's quite simple with this cpu?

I'd have thought my gpu would be holding back my cpu even in stock, so probably no point OC'ing with the same gpu? Would I need to consider more cooling?

In the future if i do desire more power, i'll just get a 580 when they're less expensive.

Cheers for the help. Quite a steep learning curve for a newbie here.

 

[T_Yamamoto]

what kind of motherboard do you have?

you need a z68 motherboard for overclocking

 

[carling220]

Interesting, never specified that. An area where being a noobs let me down.

I'm assuming since he did mention I could OC the cpu he would be aware of this.

Have to cross my fingers i suppose.

I won't be OC for a while if I do any way. Suppose I could swap out for a Z68 in the future if it hasn't got one.

 

[96Firebird]

P67 motherboards also overclock...

 

[Puppies04]

Never done any over clocking before, but i'm lead to believe it's quite simple with this cpu?

I'd have thought my gpu would be holding back my cpu even in stock, so probably no point OC'ing with the same gpu? Would I need to consider more cooling?

In the future if i do desire more power, i'll just get a 580 when they're less expensive.

Cheers for the help. Quite a steep learning curve for a newbie here.

You can overclock to around 4.5-4.6ghz with a resonably cheap aftermarket cooler and keep voltages and temps nice and safe. Take a look at the hyper 212. I'm not sure about BF3 but some newer games really like high clockspeed on your CPU and reflect that in game. Skyrim is a good example.

 

[Madcatatlas]

my answer to your question is No

 

[Smartazz]

From what I've seen, even a stock 2500K doesn't bottleneck a 6870 which is almost as powerful as the 560ti.

Edit: To answer your question, yes, a 560ti will allow you to enjoy BF3 on all high details.

 

[Crap Daddy]

You'll be able to play at least on high with good framerates. You can customize the settings as you like, more FPS lower eye candy or viceversa. The 580 is twice the price and it's not worth it.

 

[Silverforce11]

<- Runs BF3 on High 64MP, pegged at 60 fps vsync. Looks 99&#37; identical to Ultra.

Gtx560ti will be fine on High, easily.

 

[carling220]

Cheers for the replies. Quite excited for it now, get it probably wednesday or thursday.

My old PC is a pentium D 2.8ghz (years years old) coupled with a 9600gt. Should be 10x quicker.

Been wanting to play empire total war since I bought it when it came out. Should be able to play all my older games maxed out. Need to find some newer ones now also.

 

[Smartazz]

That's going to be quite an upgrade for both CPU and GPU.

 

[scooterlibby]

With a healthy overclock on your 2500K you should be able to play on high without MSAA turned on at 40FPS @ 1080P in 64 player servers.

Too lazy to hunt down the benchmarks, but doesn't anyone else remember BF3 being pretty non-responsive to CPU overclocks? I could be wrong, and I'm not debating your other points, but my impression was that a CPU overclock doesn't help that much and the gains to be made are much more on the GPU side.

 

[Uppsala9496]

http://www.geforce.com/Optimize/OPS/Battlefield-3-NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-560-Ti-OPS

 

[edplayer]

Too lazy to hunt down the benchmarks, but doesn't anyone else remember BF3 being pretty non-responsive to CPU overclocks? I could be wrong, and I'm not debating your other points, but my impression was that a CPU overclock doesn't help that much and the gains to be made are much more on the GPU side.

Overclocking the cpu does help and most reviews don't show this because the test setup was thought out poorly. Kinda sucks that we're almost in 2012 and many review sites still do things the old way instead of thinking about it and doing it right (and this includes a lot of the major sites).


Hardforum member Frito did a nice write up on it:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1038062569#post1038062569

 

[scooterlibby]

Overclocking the cpu does help and most reviews don't show this because the test setup was thought out poorly. Kinda sucks that we're almost in 2012 and many review sites still do things the old way instead of thinking about it and doing it right (and this includes a lot of the major sites).


Hardforum member Frito did a nice write up on it:

http://hardforum.com/showthread.php?p=1038062569#post1038062569

Thanks for the info, didn't know that.

 

[carling220]

useful information, cheers.

Got my new system...but don't get my monitor (gift) until christmas day....

So i'm sat on this hardware using an old samsung TV screen, looks horrible, and i mean old.

Had a quick blast on COD modern warefare and unreal tournement 3 on the 1080p TV though, and both completely maxed out ran incredibly smooth. Didn't quite look right on the tv though, maybe because it's 42 inches. Desktop looked horrible. Amazing difference overall though. Much quicker for general use as well.

Can't wait for 1080p gaming on the new monitor sunday.

 

[lkkgg72200812]

560Ti can run BF3 well~~don't worry. BTW, you can consider gigabyte's 560Ti~the fans are more powerful and bigger~~

 

[tweakboy]

It will fly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

 

[XX55XX]

I run a GTX 560 Ti alongside with my old Intel Xeon X3350 and it plays BF3 fine on Ultra settings, no AA, at 1080p. CPU is pegged at 100% usage, though.