Good (but cheap) video card for BF3?

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

Can anyone recommend one for me for BF3? A cheap one?



I have a Gateway with 6 gig of RAM. Pentium Dual Core Processor E5700, 3 GHZ. I got one of those crappy video cards that can run EVERY THING else but, not BF3....


Can anyone help me?

 

[Zelig]

Radeon HD 7750, $115.

Best card you can get that doesn't require auxiliary power input - I wouldn't trust a pre-built Gateway with anything you need to plug power into.

 

[ELITEOFWARMAN8]

Sapphire 11202-00-20G Radeon HD 7750 1GB DDR5 HDMI / DVI-I / DP PCI-Express Graphics Card

Is that it? You think it will run with my machine?

 

[Zelig]

Yes, that should be good.

 

[Joecoolyo]

Radeon HD 7750, $115.

$115?

I bought my Radeon HD 5770 for like $150 around a year and a half ago...

I'll never understand tech prices and their constant fluxes.

 

[Zelig]

$115?

I bought my Radeon HD 5770 for like $150 around a year and a half ago...

I'll never understand tech prices and their constant fluxes.

It's not really much of a flux, it's just a march downwards.

However, the 5770 is a faster card than the 7750, it's more comparable now to the 7770 which runs around $130.

 

[Joecoolyo]

It's not really much of a flux, it's just a march downwards.

However, the 5770 is a faster card than the 7750, it's more comparable now to the 7770 which runs around $130.

Really?

I also will never understand video card naming conventions. You'd think they'd stick to a linear scale, better cards, higher numbers. But instead it's all over the place, or at least it seems that way.

 

[Mise]

Yeah, they deliberately obfuscate their names... The fact that the first digit (the "thousand") merely indicates the product generation/year in which it was made, whereas the 2nd from last digit (the "tens") actually indicates a pretty significant step up in performance is evidence of that.

Toms Hardware is the only place I look when I want to buy new gfx cards: Best Graphics Cards For The Money: September 2012

The Radeon HD 7750 is the fastest graphics card you can get right now that doesn't require an auxiliary power input

 

[Zelig]

I look more clever if you don't reveal to everyone where I got my information.

 

[Cutlass]

I got the Sapphire Radeon 5770 about a year ago, and I'm happy with it.

 

[Mise]

I also have a 5770 that I also bought a year ago, and I'm also happy with it.

 

[bhsup]

Ditto, except XFX rather than Sapphire. Totally happy.

 

[Quintillus]

It's not really much of a flux, it's just a march downwards.

However, the 5770 is a faster card than the 7750, it's more comparable now to the 7770 which runs around $130.

I dunno, going by Futuremark's stats, while the 5770 is faster than the 7750 (by about 7%), it's a lot closer to that than the 7770 (which is 27% faster than the 5770). Maybe the non-synthetic benchmarks are different? I'd be kind of concerned if the 5770 were basically the same as the 7770, though - two generations ought to show an increase for what should be the same class of card (although I know AMD messed around with their naming around the 6000 era).

The prices can also be kind of strange. Generally, it is a march downwards, but the 6870 is still selling for the exact same price or slightly higher than when I bought it 9 months ago, despite the 7000 series having been out a long time.

 

[Zelig]

I don't consider synthetic benchmarks to be of any value.

Tom's Hardware puts their composite scores as follows:
2011 Tests:
5770: 49.17
6870: 76.70

2012 Tests: (not directly comparable to 2011)
7750: 58.32
7770: 67.56
6870: 82.49

re: Your 6870 - cards typically don't drop much from what AMD/Nvidia set as the MSRP - much of the time AMD/Nvidia don't drop the price much on higher end cards since there isn't much stock, they just discontinue them.