I'll be on tonight!!! For a while prolly. Saaaaaaay around 8-12 central

 

played today, my system clearly cant hack it. runs like dog ***
2 days in a row now and i find it hella laggy :(

today it crashed and i couldnt get the game to relaunch.

 

What vidya card do you have?

 

AMD Athlon 64 x2 Dual Core 6400+ 3.21 GHZ
4GB memory
64bit OS / Windows 7
ATI Radeon HD 5800

 

Yeah **** buying new, a video card is a video card. I can probably find a reference design on craigslist or something. My only beef is that if I want to watercool it, I'm looking at a $100+ full cover waterblock

 

I was playing around and overclocking my gtx460, ran a test at 900mhz core and 1800mhz shader, 2150 memory. Got it up to 77 degrees celcius, ran the mark test fairly well, ran bf3 a lot better but froze after 10min of play :(. Addicted to the extremely pretty graphics of bf3 soooo...... I'm guna buy another gtx460 and SLi them :-D

 

58 what?

 

What?

 

This is why I haven't bought it yet.

I'm running:
e8500 3.16GHz dual core
8GB of DDR2
32bit Vista
ATI HD3850

 

Minimum requirements for Battlefield 3
OS: Windows Vista or Windows 7
Processor: Core 2 Duo 2.4 GHz or Althon X2 2.7 GHz
RAM: 2GB
Graphic card: DirectX 10 or 11 compatible Nvidia or AMD ATI card, ATI Radeon 3870 or higher, Nvidia GeForce 8800 GT or higher.
Graphics card memory: 512 MB
Sound card: DirectX compatibl sound card
Hard drive: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version

Recommended system requirements for Battlefield 3
OS: Windows 7 64-bit
Processor: Quad-core Intel or AMD CPU
RAM: 4GB
Graphics card: DirectX 11 Nvidia or AMD ATI card, Nvidia GeForce GTX 560 or ATI Radeon 6950.
Graphics card memory: 1 GB
Sound card: DirectX compatibl sound card
Hard drive: 15 GB for disc version or 10 GB for digital version

You can both run the game on at lest low with not problem with good frame rate and it will just look like the xbox version. May have to run at a lower resolution to get frames up on some maps.

 

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814125353

or...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814130570

 

I dont think those will run off my MB/PS.

 

You just need a pcix16 (you can run pciex16 1.0/2.0/2.1 on any pcix16 mobo it will just run in the lowest comment mode) and i run my power house on a 480ps when everything i read said i would need a 600+

the lowest spec card i would get is the http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16814150563

what your looking for

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...d&Pagesize=100

 

The GPU I have now required me to hack into the PS wiring, it didn't even have a hookup for a GPU. So I worry I'll overload it. It's been along time since I've had to build a PC, I have a dell dude.

 

brain did you get that wishlist I sent you?

 

yeah, I had sticker shock.

 

you need some plug converters. All the new video card use two six pin power plugs (PCI-Express Connector). The video card should come with two but some don't.

But if you have a dell your only real problem is if the card will fit. Deal was stupid enough to make it some you could not fit a two bay card in there cases. Some of there over complicated ducting was in the way and so forth and so on.

 

my PS only had the cool newer type of power plugs, very thin SATA style. the convertor the GPU came with was for the really old bukly style like shown in your link. So I had to graft it in.

 

order Tuniq Potency PSU-POT750-BK 750W ATX12V / EPS12V SLI Ready CrossFire Ready 80 PLUS BRONZE Certified Active PFC Power Supply

For reference i'm running APEVIA ATX-AS520W-BK 520W ATX Power Supply that i ordered 2/27/2006

 

For anyone looking to upgrade I'm selling my current system for $300 + shipping. Cost $1200 new when I bought it in April of 2010.

PM for specticals.