What's the cheapest rig that will run BF3 and Metro 2033 maxed out?

Hi,

Mate of mine is building a rig. What's the cheapest rig that will run BF3 and Metro 2033 at maxed settings (by maxed I mean no setting spared, everything fully turned up), at 1680 x 1050, at a constant 30+ fps?

Would a 3570K (overclocked as far as possible on an H100i), 16GB of RAM and a 670 (overclocked as far as possible) do it?

Thanks

Yes but Metro's a **** to run

Hi,

Mate of mine is building a rig. What's the cheapest rig that will run BF3 and Metro 2033 at maxed settings (by maxed I mean no setting spared, everything fully turned up), at 1680 x 1050, at a constant 30+ fps?

Would a 3570K (overclocked as far as possible on an H100i), 16GB of RAM and a 670 (overclocked as far as possible) do it?

Thanks

Daanyal

3570k, 8GB+ ram, and a 670... you better be gaming at a higher resolution than 1680x1050. And you would want 60fps with those specs. But yes, if you're looking to max out games and run them butter smooth. That would be a nice start.

3570k, 8GB+ ram, and a 670... you better be gaming at a higher resolution than 1680x1050. And you would want 60fps with those specs. But yes, if you're looking to max out games and run them butter smooth. That would be a nice start.

Elann2008

So he'll have a constant 60 fps at 1050? Sweet. He's looking to upgrade to a Dell IPS, but his current monitor is a 1680 x 1050 Acer.

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]

3570k, 8GB+ ram, and a 670... you better be gaming at a higher resolution than 1680x1050. And you would want 60fps with those specs. But yes, if you're looking to max out games and run them butter smooth. That would be a nice start.

Daanyal

So he'll have a constant 60 fps at 1050? Sweet. He's looking to upgrade to a Dell IPS, but his current monitor is a 1680 x 1050 Acer.

Yeah he'll be able to max out both games. You can check out Metro 2033 benchmark here.

If he's going to invest in nice components like those, he should at least game at 1080p. A monitor upgrade too.

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]

3570k, 8GB+ ram, and a 670... you better be gaming at a higher resolution than 1680x1050. And you would want 60fps with those specs. But yes, if you're looking to max out games and run them butter smooth. That would be a nice start.

Daanyal

So he'll have a constant 60 fps at 1050? Sweet. He's looking to upgrade to a Dell IPS, but his current monitor is a 1680 x 1050 Acer.

[QUOTE="Daanyal"]

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]

3570k, 8GB+ ram, and a 670... you better be gaming at a higher resolution than 1680x1050. And you would want 60fps with those specs. But yes, if you're looking to max out games and run them butter smooth. That would be a nice start.

GamingVengeance

So he'll have a constant 60 fps at 1050? Sweet. He's looking to upgrade to a Dell IPS, but his current monitor is a 1680 x 1050 Acer.

Hi,

Mate of mine is building a rig. What's the cheapest rig that will run BF3 and Metro 2033 at maxed settings (by maxed I mean no setting spared, everything fully turned up), at 1680 x 1050, at a constant 30+ fps?

Would a 3570K (overclocked as far as possible on an H100i), 16GB of RAM and a 670 (overclocked as far as possible) do it?

Thanks

Daanyal

yes this will work, my rig will do it and my cpu is weakest link so with an ivy and at a lower resolution that i run you can definatley do it.

[QUOTE="GamingVengeance"][QUOTE="Daanyal"]

So he'll have a constant 60 fps at 1050? Sweet. He's looking to upgrade to a Dell IPS, but his current monitor is a 1680 x 1050 Acer.

Elann2008

Go for a 7950 over the 670 if you wanna play Metro. Though at that resolution you shouldn't have many problems with either.

Go for a 7950 over the 670 if you wanna play Metro. Though at that resolution you shouldn't have many problems with either.

Postmortem123

It's more BF3, but I posted Metro to see whether it could handle that too.

[QUOTE="Elann2008"]

3570k, 8GB+ ram, and a 670... you better be gaming at a higher resolution than 1680x1050. And you would want 60fps with those specs. But yes, if you're looking to max out games and run them butter smooth. That would be a nice start.

Daanyal

So he'll have a constant 60 fps at 1050? Sweet. He's looking to upgrade to a Dell IPS, but his current monitor is a 1680 x 1050 Acer.

lol metro 2033 with an nvidia card?? Not gonna happen. Your best option is a 7970 and overclock it as well.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_7970_review_matrix_platinum_radeon,16.html

this is metro with 4x AA at 1080p

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12.11_Performance/13.html

And finally here is BF3 at 1080p. AMD wins again

I have a GTX 670 and on demanding parts maxed out with every single thing on including DX11,ADOF, Tess and 4xMSAA it reaches 20s, explain that!

Game just isn't optimized when it comes to intense lighting, smoke and particle effects.

[QUOTE="GamingVengeance"][QUOTE="Elann2008"] With a 670, he should be fine. It might dip into the 50's here and there. Or just play DX9, and run it smooth with very little difference in graphics. :) Metro 2033 benchmarkElann2008

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[QUOTE="Elann2008"]

3570k, 8GB+ ram, and a 670... you better be gaming at a higher resolution than 1680x1050. And you would want 60fps with those specs. But yes, if you're looking to max out games and run them butter smooth. That would be a nice start.

blaznwiipspman1

So he'll have a constant 60 fps at 1050? Sweet. He's looking to upgrade to a Dell IPS, but his current monitor is a 1680 x 1050 Acer.

lol metro 2033 with an nvidia card?? Not gonna happen. Your best option is a 7970 and overclock it as well.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_7970_review_matrix_platinum_radeon,16.html

this is metro with 4x AA at 1080p

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12.11_Performance/13.html

And finally here is BF3 at 1080p. AMD wins again

Why didn't you use the one from your original source? It wouldn't have anything to do with that source showing BF3 performing better on nVidia cards, would it?...

C_Rule

That review is on older drivers I think, before the huge BF3 boost for AMD.

[QUOTE="C_Rule"]

Why didn't you use the one from your original source? It wouldn't have anything to do with that source showing BF3 performing better on nVidia cards, would it?...

Postmortem123

That review is on older drivers I think, before the huge BF3 boost for AMD.

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[QUOTE="Daanyal"]

So he'll have a constant 60 fps at 1050? Sweet. He's looking to upgrade to a Dell IPS, but his current monitor is a 1680 x 1050 Acer.

C_Rule

lol metro 2033 with an nvidia card?? Not gonna happen. Your best option is a 7970 and overclock it as well.

http://www.guru3d.com/articles_pages/asus_7970_review_matrix_platinum_radeon,16.html

this is metro with 4x AA at 1080p

http://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/AMD/Catalyst_12.11_Performance/13.html

And finally here is BF3 at 1080p. AMD wins again

I said his BEST option is a 7970 for metro 2033 and after that to over clock it as well. Nothing biased about that. I didn't use the older source for bf3 since it is irrelevant as it was using older drivers. Finally amd are not behind nvidia in bf3. Its nvidia that is behind amd as you can clearly see from my graphs. Either that or you can't read numbers properly.

Yeah, if you play metro your better off going AMD because even my GTX 690 OC'ed has a hard time. Game hates Nvidia.

Yeah, if you play metro your better off going AMD because even my GTX 690 OC'ed has a hard time. Game hates Nvidia.

Truth_Hurts_U

51 >36

[QUOTE="Truth_Hurts_U"]

Yeah, if you play metro your better off going AMD because even my GTX 690 OC'ed has a hard time. Game hates Nvidia.

04dcarraher

51 >36

Of course it does, it costs more than twice as much.

Finally amd are not behind nvidia in bf3. Its nvidia that is behind amd as you can clearly see from my graphs. Either that or you can't read numbers properly.

blaznwiipspman1