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Your recommendation for more FPS without sacrificing in game video settings in BF4 ?

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November 4, 2013 6:55:46 AM

Hello Community,

I recently acquired a new PC for the pleasure of playing BF4 :) 

I would like to get more FPS playing BF4 without having to sacrifice my in game video settings. I wish to run the game at stable 60 FPS by playing ultra settings with resolution set at 150% (1920x1080 - 1080p) and AA maxed out.

What would you recommend me ? At first, I was thinking crossfiring my GPU ?
Below are my PC specs. Thank you all in advance for your anwsers.

Motherboard - ASUS Rampage IV Extreme, Intel X79
CPU - Intel Core i7-3820, 4x 3.60GHz
GPU - AMD Radeon HD 7950 3GB
Memory - 16GB Corsair Vengeance DDR3-1600 (4x 4GB)
SSD - 60GB Kingston V300
HD - 1TB Seagate Barracuda
Power Supply - 600W - BeQuiet! SystemPower 7
CPU Cooler - Corsair H100i
OS : Windows 8.1

Budget : 700 euros ( 945 US $)

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November 4, 2013 7:03:40 AM

What is your budget for this?
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November 4, 2013 7:05:59 AM

Also what resolution are you playing at? 150% does not really mean anything... Assuming you are on 1920x1080? (1080p).
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November 4, 2013 7:13:27 AM

nsaylor95 said:
What is your budget for this?


Hello, budget would be 700 euros ( 945 US $)
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November 4, 2013 7:14:52 AM

Pete_the_Puma said:
Also what resolution are you playing at? 150% does not really mean anything... Assuming you are on 1920x1080? (1080p).


Yes that is correct I play at 1920x1080 (1080p).
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November 4, 2013 7:19:10 AM

You could wait for the 780 to drop in price to $500 and buy that if you wanted to, or buy two 770s for $329 when they drop. The prices are supposed to drop when the 780Ti releases. The R9 290X would also be a excellent card for you to look at. I wouldn't recommend Crossfiring the AMD cards because I've heard they have bad drivers and I'm not sure if they've got that cleared up yet or not.
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November 4, 2013 7:26:07 AM

If I buy two 770s, will my power supply (600W) be able to handel it ?
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November 4, 2013 7:30:22 AM

izthepain said:
If I buy two 770s, will my power supply (600W) be able to handel it ?


No. You should have at least 750w with two 770s. I would recommend even more to be on the safe side.
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November 4, 2013 7:36:45 AM

Yeah, for SLI it's generally recommended to have 850W for some headroom so your PSU isn't running 100% all the time under load. However, a good quality PSU will deliver more wattage than it is labeled for.
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November 4, 2013 7:39:25 AM

Yes your options would be:

1. Upgrade PSU and go with 2 GPU's in SLI
2. Use single current PSU and go with a single GPU

At 1080p I'm pretty sure a single GTX 770 would handle BF4 quite well. This initial review of BF4 BETA found the GTX 770 averaging 59.4 FPS.

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-4-graph...

Keep in mind this will get better as nVidia drivers get optimized for the game release. Also the GTX 770 just dropped in price to 329$ making it incredible value at this time.

I would recommend: Keep your current PSU, get a single GTX 770 for around 350$. If you are not satisfied with this you can always get a new PSU (800W or more to be abslutely on the safe side) and get a second GTX 770 for mindblowing performance. GTX 770x2 in SLI will blow away even a 1000$ GTX Titan.
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November 4, 2013 7:40:04 AM

Without changing out your psu, I think your strongest upgrade would be to a GTX780 superclocked.
The R9-290X might be stronger, but it is more power hungry and might be too much for your psu.
There is a possibility that the upcoming GTX780ti might be able to run on your psu. You might wait to see what that offers.
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November 4, 2013 10:14:28 AM

Also assuming you are putting your operating system and BF4 on the SSD then 60GB won't be big enough. I have Windows 7, a few very small apps and BF4 on my 128GB SSD and I only have 10GB spare.
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