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#3699403 - 12/15/12 08:18 AM Graphics card upgrade recomendations please  
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Hi all.

I'm pondering on a self-imposed Christmas graphics card treat to run ROF in full glory and some Clod. My Current GPU is rather noisy and under-powered. Budget in the region of £400. I'm looking at Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Windforce 3X 3072MB and the EVGA GeForce GTX 680 Classified 4096MB. The HD7970 is way cheaper than the GForce and seems to offer a better bang for buck.

Questions if you please:
1) What does ROF require to run in full eye-candy/smooth frame rates at 1600x1280 res?
2) Any recomendations on which graphic cards I should be looking at?


Many thanks and really looking forwards getting into ROF and the whole WW1 flight sceen.

My curent sys specs:

GeForce GTX 560Ti 2048MB
i5-2500K 3.30GHz (@4.2)
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#3699462 - 12/15/12 02:02 PM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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Why not getting another GeForce GTX 560Ti 2048MB and go for SLI???

#3699481 - 12/15/12 02:49 PM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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Slap..really your wasting your money..you should wait for another year or so to really notice any difference from the 560..well the difference certainly wont be worth the money.

#3699513 - 12/15/12 03:36 PM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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Didn't think of that dutch, thx. What would 2 GeForce GTX 560Ti's relate to in performance gains? Will this also mean I get double the noise?

Wodin, I hear ya thx. Got that upgrade itch and if not I would most probably blow it on Christmas drink and drugs anyhow...:). I was thinking along the lines of selling my existing GPU to off-set the cost of the upgrade for the ATI Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Windforce which is currently going for £350 here in UK(I reckon I could get at least £100 for my existing GPU).


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#3699515 - 12/15/12 03:38 PM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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Also if memory serves, I'm not sure if Clod supports SLI-ness.


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#3699530 - 12/15/12 04:05 PM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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#3699544 - 12/15/12 04:32 PM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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Perhaps there are the same thing(sims/drugs)...I actually turned down a first date with my furture wife to be due to an epic 24 hour EAW online battle for Queen country and squadron back in 2001(had to also pull a sicky at work)...Sad but true, but boy was it fun biggrin


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#3699567 - 12/15/12 05:06 PM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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hey Slap, did you tell your wife that?
If you did you are probably still paying for that.

I'm a geforce man lately, but both are good cards which should give you no problems, depends on the deal you can get, should be some deals to be had.

#3699576 - 12/15/12 05:21 PM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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Yes indeed and oh boy did I pay Relix...Put it this way, I'm now single...:)

Thanks for heads up on ROF/GPUs; I'll be looking for those deals.


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#3699753 - 12/16/12 12:02 AM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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I just went from two 5870's to a single 7970 3GB Ghz Edition card. I play in Eyefinity resolutions up to 6052x1200 (Bezel compensated). The 7970 Ghz Edition REALLY made a difference from my 5870s...


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#3699891 - 12/16/12 05:34 AM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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Sounds great Argon, thx.

I've narrowed my GPU upgrade to the two following cards:

1)MSI HD 7970 Lightning BOOSTED Edition 3072MB GDDR5 £359.99

2)Gigabyte ATI Radeon HD 7970 GHz Edition Windforce 3X 3072MB GDDR5 £348.99

The MSI is on a today only special (£40 off from a well know UK online retailer) which brings it down to within my budget.
The Gigabyte's on a "this week only" and is about £10 cheapper.

I am swaying towards the MSI.


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#3699933 - 12/16/12 07:36 AM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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Originally Posted By: Slap
Also if memory serves, I'm not sure if Clod supports SLI-ness.


Clod does support SLI only not AMD CrossfireX, but you can always ask this on the 1c or ubisoft forum. Keep in your mind that if you want to run, not on on high resolution only 1600x1200, that HD7970 would be a waste. That 560 is still a good card, but if wanting to flush $$$, then get the GTX680, nVidia does have better drivers for RoF [and maybe also for Clod], read fifi's posting on the official forum and you will see he got better eye candy using nVidia adjustments then Rof's own adjustments. This I can not do in the HD7970 Catalyst settings, still have to use the old not efficient RoF adjustments.
Hope one time 777 will upgrade them.

Another point if going for a non reference cooler be aware those multi fan coolers do spread the heat in your pc case, so extra exhaust fans needs to be considered. I had this when using a HD4890 VaporX.

Good luck, these are only my 2 cents on that, the decision is all yours!!!

#3699991 - 12/16/12 12:42 PM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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Powerful Single card is better than SLI'd medium spec in my experience.
Also where RoF does support Sli/Xfrire the increase is marginal.
I went from GTX 480's in Sli to a single GTX580 and it does the job very nicely.
I used to have a single 480 but got in the second when i was a beta tester for RoF and they were developing the multi GPU options.
Results didn't show any increase in FPS, but did allow for ramping up super sampling and AA/AF settings with little hit on FPS.
The 580 now achieves better results than the Sli setup.

If I had £400 to burn it'd be on a GTX680

#3700090 - 12/16/12 05:01 PM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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A single GTX 580 does the job for me.

#3700234 - 12/16/12 08:13 PM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Gambit21]  
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I have a single 580 3gb. Does everything I need (CloD,RoF and any other game my son cares to throw at it).

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#3700367 - 12/16/12 11:12 PM Re: Graphics card upgrade recomendations please [Re: Slap]  
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Thx all. I ordered the MSI HD 7970 Lightning then read your posts...Hope it works out ok; will report back once I got it set up.

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