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Well i took the plunge!

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Really pleased with my single 480 running on a 24inch monitor at 1900 by 1200 :)

GPU Idle temp only 35c to 40c, Playing BFBC2 between 70c and 80c.

I tend to play Battlefield Bad Company 2 in dx10 mode as from what I can see and what I have read its not really optimized that well for DX11 and its very hard to notice any quality difference, so no point waisting fps ;)

I have all settings on high with AA and anthropic on 4 and get a minimum of 140 fps and anything up to 200 fps so very happy indeed :)

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the more i read about the 480GTX the more tempted i am to buy 1 but my 280 oc2 is handling bad company with no probs at 1920x1080 everything high maybe when i get back onshore i might buy 1
 
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I just saw he said 1900x1200. Sorry but you are fooling yourself if you think you are getting 140FPS minimums!!

Depending on your CPU I'd hazard a guess that your minimums are more like 45-55 at best. You wouldn't even get 140FPS minimums with 480 SLI
 
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Good choice on the 470's. I'll be interested to see your temps. There was an a review on a site (which I can't find anymore) showing the retail cards running 10c cooler than the review samples sent out. I'm wondering if that is the case.
 
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I wonder of we can get some one with same CPU and speed and see how they perform on the new drivers compared to crossfire 5870 and 5850s it would be interesting to see if they can keep up with 5870 on muture drivers.. since there the same price.
 
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re:

I just saw he said 1900x1200. Sorry but you are fooling yourself if you think you are getting 140FPS minimums!!

Fooling myself :confused:

I was running fraps :)

In the game I used to get 80 to 100 fps with my maxcore 260 ;) but that was on medium settings.

Battlefield bad comapany 2 does tend to be far more cpu demanding, maybe having an i7 clocked to 4Ghz helps :)

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Sorry dude but I have 2 260s in SLI and an i5 750 @ 4.2GHz....I would say the specs are comparable to yours...and I get around 50 minimums at best... 2048x1152 with 4xAA 16xAF

There is no way you are getting 140 fps minimum all high details with some AA and AF...even if you had 2 480s in SLI
 
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The guy says he gets 140 min in BC2 with all high setting and some AA/AF, I find this very doubtful, but I notice you have a youtube channel, why not video your screen whilst playing BC2 on a populated server with fraps running and put all the doubters to rest.;)
 
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Well its 7pm now, time to start packing up this 5 year old hunk of junk! and get this place all neat and tidy, create some space for the mass box opening session tomorrow when all he new parts come :D, i think its gonna be a long restless nights sleep waiting for that knock on the door tomorrow like a lil kid!

Anyways... iv downloaded real temp, prime 95, cpuz and msi afterburner, lastest sound card driver, nvidia drivers, am i missing anything to get off to a good start? and im wondering if i should keep the system at stock for a while or dive right into the bios and try hit 4 ghz?
 
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Sorry dude but I have 2 260s in SLI and an i5 750 @ 4.2GHz....I would say the specs are comparable to yours...and I get around 50 minimums at best... 2048x1152 with 4xAA 16xAF

There is no way you are getting 140 fps minimum all high details with some AA and AF...even if you had 2 480s in SLI

Ermm maybe I have missed some posts but BC2 running everything maxed I get 200fps ( checked with fraps ) when running @ 1920x1200 and I get 60-80fps all maxed with res of 5760x1200 eyefinity

That is running i7@4ghz, 5970 + 5870
 
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Well all my parts have arrived :), hopefully by tomorrow ill be able to get some gtx 470 sli **overclocked** bench results for us :), i will make another post in the general hardware section and maby do a lil bit of a build log i dunno, but will post a pic of all the goodies arrived as they did 1 hour ago :). Have a good day all!
 
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Ermm maybe I have missed some posts but BC2 running everything maxed I get 200fps ( checked with fraps ) when running @ 1920x1200 and I get 60-80fps all maxed with res of 5760x1200 eyefinity

That is running i7@4ghz, 5970 + 5870

3 58xx GPUs are a bit different than 1 480 though! Also check your minimum FPS and I doubt it's 200FPS let alone 140.
 
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Yeah try looking at the action and not at your feet whilst in game ;p


Well all my parts have arrived :), hopefully by tomorrow ill be able to get some gtx 470 sli **overclocked** bench results for us :), i will make another post in the general hardware section and maby do a lil bit of a build log i dunno, but will post a pic of all the goodies arrived as they did 1 hour ago :). Have a good day all!

Looking forward to it.
 
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