Graphics Card Options

[kermit]

Hi All

Can anyone tell me what a really good graphics card would be for BC2. Im currently running a AMD quad core 3.0ghz 8gigs of ram with a nivida 8600 card. Any useful would be great

[McJaffa]

No probs. From personal experience cooling may be a limiting factor for you. I was previously unable to get much above 350MHz FSB stable until I ditched my old, cheap, crappy case for a nice sexy Antec P183. The Antec plus an extra chassis fan on the front dropped my system temperatures a lot, I think that lead to the motherboard being able to run cooler and hence stable at much higher clocks.

Me & Harkin both have similar setups, he has a e6850, mine e6750 and we both manage to get 100% stable at 400MHz FSB from the stock 333. We don't use the stock coolers though so that will have a say in how far yours can go. I use a Zalman 9700 as it runs nice & quiet while still managing to cool it well enough.

Get something like CoreTemp running to see what your temps are at stock speeds, then try overclocking a bit at a time to see the effect. Run a decent stress test to make sure everything is fine before you increase any speeds and I would start by simply leaving everything except FSB speed on auto at first until you find the limit of how high you can push your FSB without voltage tweaks.