Quote Originally Posted by Bahn View Post
To the OP -

You can see why looking for advice on the Internet about computer parts can be a pain. People mostly speak from personal experiences with the setup they have because most of us aren't rich enough to have multiple setups. For example, my current setup is an i7 965 Nehalem (one I was lucky enough to get used!) with an EVGA GTX 460. Clocks are 800/1600/1850 (Core, Shader, Memory) with 1050 mV core voltage. I cannot get this game to run at a fluid 60 FPS in 1280 x 720 windowed mode. Gen Drawing Quality 8, Background Drawing Quality 3, Highest Shadow Detail, no AA. AO off, Depth of Field off, Standard Texture and Filtering Quality.

From your budget of $500, I think you have two options, as I think running a dual SLI GTX 580 setup is overkill for this game - that's already $1000 which I think is absolutely insane unless you're going to use that setup for some other crazy combo like running a game at 2560 x 1440p with everything maxed out. You can either go the single GTX 580 setup, which will probably allow you to run this game at 60 FPS if you turn down a few options, or a dual GTX 560 Ti setup if there's room on your motherboard for it. I've heard Fermi-based cards scale well (meaning if you run the thing in SLI, the second card will actually be able utilized correctly). Both will cost you about $500. A single GTX 560 Ti will be sufficient for most other games but if you really want to run this game at max settings, I think that's the route you should take.

If you only run in windowed mode like me, you'll have to go the single GPU route, as Crossfire and SLI do not work in windowed mode.
yes actually this honestly helping me out seeing other point of view on how the they set up their computers. But yes I may go for a GTX580 right now, i'm still looking at a radeon because I have never played with a radeon, so that is still an option, but when it comes to overclocking and understanding how CPU optimization help me play this game better.


I really do want to push for 60 FPS at least on high. so seeing people set up is helping me understand my own setup.