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Would I be able to play Call of Duty 4:Modern Warfare with the Nvidia GTX 660 TI on max settings (1920x1040) with a solid 250fps with no dips etc.?
 
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Presumably s/he's playing COD4 because they like it, haven't finished it yet, whatever. I haven't even *started* COD4 yet,
still sitting in its box unopened, along with COD World At War, Borderlands and Red Faction Guerilla. Atm I'm still playing
Oblivion, Stalker, FC2, Crysis Warhead and Crysis2. Some of us don't have the time to blast through the games pronto
and thus be up to date, and some just prefer the older games anyway. :D

As for performance kjoshua, it will certainly be pretty high, but as helloguy says, maybe not always 250+. Is there a reason
you need it to be so high? If you have a standard monitor then it wouldn't look any better than simply running it at 60Hz
with vsync turned on, or do you have a high-refresh monitor...
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Presumably s/he's playing COD4 because they like it, haven't finished it yet, whatever. I haven't even *started* COD4 yet,
still sitting in its box unopened, along with COD World At War, Borderlands and Red Faction Guerilla. Atm I'm still playing
Oblivion, Stalker, FC2, Crysis Warhead and Crysis2. Some of us don't have the time to blast through the games pronto
and thus be up to date, and some just prefer the older games anyway. :D

As for performance kjoshua, it will certainly be pretty high, but as helloguy says, maybe not always 250+. Is there a reason
you need it to be so high? If you have a standard monitor then it wouldn't look any better than simply running it at 60Hz
with vsync turned on, or do you have a high-refresh monitor like 120Hz or something and wish to play in 3D?

Have you already bought the 660 Ti? Or are you still deciding?

Personally I skipped the entire 600 series, wasn't impressed with the tech rebranding. If you already have a
500 series card, I recommend you do the same, jump straight to a 770 or somesuch.

Ian.

 
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I'm building a system at the moment:
MSI GD65 990FX
AMD FX 6350
8GB Corsair Vengeance RAM

Only have a 9800GT GPU at the moment, and I know the 600 series has gone down in price by a lot as I'm on a budget. I just want it for competitive COD4 :D
 
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Would the 700 series be worth the extra £60 for a relatively old game? I didn't think it would make too much of a difference for the sake of the extra money and thought it wouldn't be worth it. I may consider a new AMD card if it is better performance than the Nvidia.
 
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I want as much flexibility in the way I play, hence I need high frame rate etc.
 
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I was looking at the 270X, is it that much better than the 660 TI? And would it run COD4 on max 250FPS+?
 
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The 270X is only around the £140 mark, whereas the 660TI is at £150ish. The 270X would be the better buy I think. Thank you all! :)
 
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Personally I'd get a used 7970, faster than all of those. I won a 7970/GHz for 135 recently,
it's about 25% or more quicker than a 270X (50% quicker for Crysis2 according to toms charts).

Either way, I hope you don't end up being CPU bottlenecked. Keep an eye on CPU usage
when you're playing.

Btw, I have four 9800GTs, four 8800GTs (both 512MB/1GB pairs), done lots of tests. Is
your 9800GT a 512MB card? If so then it's not worth bothering with a 2nd in case you'd
thought about it, but two 1GB 9800GTs SLI can be quite potent for 1080p. I've already
done various 7970 tests, so I'd be happy to test a couple of 9800GTs if you like.

Hey, is there a standard COD benchmark? And is the COD you're referring to the one
called Modern Warfare? That's the one I've not yet opened. The one that worries me
though re all spare time being obliterated is World at War, a genre that can suck me
in way too easily. :D

Ian.

PS. Only caveat to testing is, I use a 5GHz 2700K, so no CPU bottlenecks. Thus,
with just an FX 6350, YMMV.

 
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you're not on the same page.................
 
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The problem is that we're all only just guessing here because by the time GPUs had moved on to the
point where performance with an old game like COD4 might be that high, the games review sites use
for testing have also moved on, understandably so given the newer features, etc. used by newer games.

Besides, you won't remotely notice the difference if your monitor cannot display such a high refresh rate.
What model is your monitor? Completely pointless trying to have a system that can do 250fps if your
monitor is a standard 60Hz model, or even 120Hz.





Only IMO if you buy a used 7970 minimum. I won another one a few days ago for 138 UKP total, see
item 261539415998. Remember what I said: it's the same speed as a 280X. Plenty of used 7970s
available now. Two of them in CF would be really quick; one guy has a listing of 160 BIN for an MSI
7970, 4 available; not a bargain, but not overpriced either, what I would call fair.

Buying any new AMD card less than a 290 is pointless IMO, it's just rebranded older tech, hence the
high value of a used card like a 7970.

I do prefer NVIDIA for various reasons (mainly driver related), but used prices for comparable NVIDIA
cards remain too high. Atm the price/performance value sweetspot is with 7900 series AMD cards,
specifically the 7970 (all I'd say is go for a model that has a minimum 1GHz GPU core clock; plenty
on offer these days).


I think you should revisit your rationale (if you have one) for even wanting 250fps minimum because IMO
it doesn't make sense, unless that is you have some magical 250Hz refresh monitor I've never heard of.

And btw, as I mentioned before, for older games at low/medium res, the CPU will be a bottleneck. I don't
believe your current platform is capable of delivering the speed you want, even if you fitted powerful GPUs;
your CPU's IPC just isn't that good. Also, you've not mentioned what your budget is for this GPU purchase;
it's hard to make recommendations without knowing how much you want to spend at most.

Ian.

 
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250fps allows you to perform a lot more glitches etc, it isnt the fact that i have to see the difference. It allows a different style of COD gameplay to be used effectively. I think I will pobably go for a NVidia GeForce 760, seeing as it is a good card for the money IMO. Thank you guys! :D
 
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I don't see how, not if your monitor can't display a refresh even half that high. Physically impossible. Once
you're above the monitor refresh at a minimum, then just set double buffering on and that's as good as the
display output can ever be. Aiming for some rate higher than that is pointless.

I've no idea how the 760 would fair, but it should be pretty decent. There's no point wanting more than your
monitor refresh as a minimum rate though, you gain nothing at all on the screen once that level is reached.

Ian.

 
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