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If you are getting 60+ FPS then the game isn't maxed out.

If you are getting 60+ FPS then the game isn't maxed out.

How are you going to tell me how my card performs? I display FPS on Battlefield 4 every single time I play it, and the absolute lowest frame I've seen is 48 under heavy explosions or graphically intense scenes. My 760 is overclocked so high, I cannot even modify the settings any further without system lockups. Think what you want, but I own a 760 that will play Titanfall and BF4 above 60FPS with max settings 1920x1080 and it looks at those titles and just rolls it's eyes. I wouldn't throw in my two cents if I didn't own the card, or if my card didn't perform as I am saying. Battlefield requires a mid-high range card to get those frames, and Titanfall just requires a mid-range card to play on those settings. If it were Crysis 3 or something, whole different ballpark, I have to turn my settings down to High to even get 50+FPS. My 760 is far from a reference card, it's practically a stock 770

You said that BF4 can take advantage of more than 4 cores. But you have a quad core CPU in this build. Sorry im just confused im new to this stuff. Also you have all suggested Intel over AMD. Is it better than AMD for gaming??

Benchmarks are for reference. To see what other people achieve with the setup(s) that they have put together. My card happens to get 65-70FPS on BF4 Ultra settings, I wouldn't keep praising my card if it didn't. When people make benchmarks, they typically use reference cards, different brands make different adjustments to the overall card itself, mine happens to be the superclocked version, paired with an overclocked 3570k, and it works wonders. But don't tell me how my card performs based on someone else's benchmark, new drivers enhance the card's performance depending on what game the driver was coded for. NVIDIA releases drivers practically release day of a new game for the best experience, and occasional fixes and improvements later on. So, because a reference 770 got 53FPS on Battlefield 4, which sounds more like 2500x1440 frames, several months ago, doesn't mean that's how they perform now. If you don't own one, don't act like you do because of something you saw on the internet.

I wasn't suggesting a 760. I was just putting in my input since I own those games, and I happen to get those frames that he is trying to get. If I had more money at the time, I'd have went with a 780 or higher. I'd rather have my 3 27" monitors and a really nice card.

Lol, this is my last comment, I'm honestly done arguing with you thinking you know my system performs on BF4, you can believe a benchmark all you want, but because they used "a" 760, does not mean they used "my" 760. There are tons of different 760's made by different manufacturers that do their own adjustments to the 760 itself, and because the benchmark used "a" 760, doesn't speak for the rest of the entire 760 class, different 760's perform better than others, if you don't believe that at the very least, you shouldn't keep commenting pretending to know about Video Cards. I display frames every single time I play Battlefield 4, and if it stayed at 50FPS, I'd drop the settings. I wouldn't keep praising my card if it didn't perform as I am saying. If I remember correctly, without the overclock on my CPU, it ran about that low, but I got 5-10 frames just off the CPU OC and an additional 5-10 off the GPU OC. The only frames I see on occasion, are the frames that you are saying my card should barely get. And for the last time, my card is not a reference 760 if it performs at a similar performance of a stock 770, which is why EVGA named it "Superclocked". BF4 is a moderate-high GPU intensive and high CPU intensive game, it benefits highly from increases to both components, and is also Hyper-threaded supported (even though my CPU does not support HT, BF4 will still gain a performance increase from the OC). When I get my H90, I plan on bumping it back up to 4.6GHz for an even better performance increase.

Keep believing an outdated/invalid benchmark against someone's word who owns a 760 and plays Battlefield 4 almost everyday at 65-70+ FPS with ease. I've read plenty of recent benchmarks that say the 760 gets high 50's, low-mid 60's on BF4 max settings, so I have no idea, nor desire to know where or when you read the benchmark you speak of.

Edit: The Tom's Hardware benchmark of the 760 on BF4 was from November 2013, and the game came out in late October, if I remember correctly. It's May 2014. Drivers are updated over the months to increase performance.

It's believable with the new drivers and windows 8.1 it can be played on ultra settings with 4xMsaa

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xxJGZ8VwoJA

My guess would be the frame drops on more open maps.