Is the hd 6790 or 6770 good enough to run bf3 on high?

the question says it all...

I highly doubt it.Although the Beta hasn't started yet so we don't exactly know how demanding it is for sure but I was in the Alpha and my single 6870 could max it out but all of the settings were turned way down since it was Alpha testing.I would think you need at least a GTX560ti or 6870 to play it on high settings with no eye candy.

one of my friends with the alpha maxed out the game atih 35 fps at 1680x1050.It should max it out but nothing cant be said before its beta release

Honestly, no. I'm buying a Radeon 6970 and THAT will only run it maxed at around 40-50fps... you can probably run it around medium if you OC it, though!

Seriously? When are you people going to stop? How can you say, FOR SURE, that a 6970 will only max it at 40-50 fps? BS. It's built on the engine BC2 used but a more optimized version, it's being released for consoles, and after having personal experience with the alpha I can tell you right now this game isn't going to be another Crysis.

Yes but in even in the Alpha my Phenom ii x4 965 @ 3.8ghz was at 80% usage.Although my 6870 was able to max it out and maintain a steady 60fps I could totally tell that all of the settings were turned way down.That would also make sense because the Alpha phase isn't geared towards graphics or gameplay but mainly just to see if their servers were in working order and turning all the graphics settings down so that their would not be any unneeded lag caused by it.

I understand that this game will require a moderate system to run. But it's people like Qwertymusicman are starting to annoy me. They say that they KNOW, for SURE, what the game will require and exactly how it will run, and most of them grossly exagerate the requirements.

+1; It WILL take a good system to run, but the requirements aren't unbelievably crazy as people make it out to be. I cant wait till it comes out and people are playing it on a store bought tower with a GPU shoved in it so everyone stops stressing on it

It will also be more optimized as well, so I think it will be more demanding, but nothing ridiculous.

I have a 2500k and a 4870, and I can run BC2 with 4xAA everything else turned up to high(no HBAO, it's poorly optimized and useless imo) and I get a steady 50-60fps. I am only at 1680x1050 though, so at higher resolutions and DX11 the cards you said are likely required.

I will be upgrading my card once the new series release. But I will not be getting sli of top end cards like some people think you will need. Ever since they showed the live gameplay at e3, and everyone is like "OMG the rig they had was running dual 580's and the game still wasn't maxed omz guyz nothing out there will be able to max this game!@@$!@"...

I'm not even sure it has been confirmed that the rig they were using was running dual 580's, if it has, please share the link or just say so because it could be and I would like to know. And same for if the game was maxed or not, far as I know DICE never said this officially.

I completely agree. This makes it even more retarded that people are so concerned about putting in the best graphics card when a lot of them probably have a dual core still. If you don't have 4 cores, you won't probably won't be able to run this game good, even with something like a 580 or 6970.

Yet some people make threads saying they need a new graphics card for BF3, and want the best one available, without ever stating the rest of their specs. Chances are some of those people have dual cores.

Oh well, hopefully they all realize this before it's too late and they waste money, otherwise they will realize once the game releases.

I'll stop derailing the thread now

My system ran the alpha "maxed" (not much choice there), 1920x1080 between 40 and 60 FPS on average...give or take a few here and their depending on what was happening. I was under the impression the game was in DX9 though, not 11 during the alpha.

Core i7-860 @ 3.8ghz
8gb DDR3 @ 1448mhz
GTX580 (very lightly OC'd)
Win 7 64bit on 1T WD Black

So you can use that as a point of reference. I plan on seeing how the final product runs with newer drivers before I make an decisions to change my system or not.

Best,

3Ball

you just frwaked me out. will it be ok with 13 2100 on 1650*1020 ie. HD 6850

^+1

The 2100 is actually a little beat of a gaming machine.It does as well as a Phenom ii x4 in games.You should fare well in BF3 but as trogdor said it requires a real quad core to get the most out of it.