Best Card on the Market for CoD

[JG4_Helofly]

I recently bought a HD 6870. It works extremly well at max settings in games like battlefield bad company 2 or cod black ops (1920x1200).
I see no reason why IL2 shouldn't work with that card. And compared to the 6900 series it's much cheaper.
The real bottle neck will probably be the CPU, so get a good one.

[Novotny]

The wife won't let me sell her anyway. To be honest, I'd never go for the top of the range, as there's always a sweet spot, and if i were to be buying, I'd probably be looking quite closely at the 6870 and the 560ti.

[blampars]

I have 2x gtx 460s sli with an amd x4 955 processor which I over clocked to 3.8ghz. I have yet to run into any problems playing any games at a resolution of 1920x1080 . Even with games that don't utilize both cards like rise of flight, I can still run at max graphics with good frame rates. I don't think I'll have any problems running cliffs of dover with my setup. At least I hope not.
If I had the money to spare, I might spring for a new card from nvidia or amd but at that point I might as well build a new machine. Especially since mine is going on 3 years old now. Thank god for upgrades!

[Heliocon]

Card is mediocre - they just pulled the old trick and making glueing together two lesser cards to make a better single unit at a lower price. It has limited top end upgrade ability - I will stick with my current 580, and in a years time add an additiona 2 580s for 3 way sli.

Plus AMD/ATI drivers are a nightmare.
-also as others have mentioned, the card apparently has heating problems. I also dont know how well (or if you even could) rig it for water cooling. That limits OC ability also.

[Sven]

Plus AMD/ATI drivers are a nightmare.

BS. That story gets old. Also a typical Nvidia owner response towards newer 'competing' AMD cards.

[TheGrunch]

Originally Posted by Sven

BS. That story gets old. Also a typical Nvidia owner response towards newer 'competing' AMD cards.

I can confirm that the AMD Linux drivers are a proper dogs' dinner, haha. As for Windows ones, never had a problem at all, except for the Catalyst Control Centre being a real heap of crap. Oh yeah, and the big phase where Il-2 had various visual artifacts and the like, but hey, 10 year old game.

[Widowmaker214]

Well, considering I have machines running both Nvidia and ATI cards...
I'll never buy another AMD/ATI video card. Nothing but troubles.. and I hear the same thing from my flight sim friends with ATI. They are fine if you just want to tinker with Office applications... wont have one for gaming. My nvidia cards/drivers never seem to have an issue... but always running into little "things" with ATI.
And I know my way around a computer as well.. not like I buy compaq gaming rigs. I build my own.
Will be building a new machine just for COD.. and she'll be running Nvidia.

[Heliocon]

Originally Posted by Sven

BS. That story gets old. Also a typical Nvidia owner response towards newer 'competing' AMD cards.

Maybe, I just remember a personal nightmare with them from a few years ago. They may of improved them alot since then, I have not tried them out so I am just going from older experience and what people are saying.
Also I am not bashing them for the sake of it, nvidia does plenty of things wrong too.

[=GI=Joel]

I went for an ati 6950. Will try for the bios tweak to unlock the extra shaders when i have cod.

[Codex]

Seems the 590 will have lower power consumption, but also lower performance than the 6990, still has to be confirmed though

http://www.zdnet.com/blog/hardware/l...-gtx-590/11875