| HIS Radeon HD 6870 IceQ Video Card |  |
| Reviews - Featured Reviews: Video Cards | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Written by Steve Hearst | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
| Wednesday, 09 November 2011 | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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DX11: Battlefield Bad Company 2The Battlefield franchise has been known to demand a lot from PC graphics hardware. DICE (Digital Illusions CE) has incorporated their Frostbite-1.5 game engine with Destruction-2.0 feature set with Battlefield: Bad Company 2. Battlefield: Bad Company 2 features destructible environments using Frostbit Destruction-2.0, and adds gravitational bullet drop effects for projectiles shot from weapons at a long distance. The Frostbite-1.5 game engine used on Battlefield: Bad Company 2 consists of DirectX-10 primary graphics, with improved performance and softened dynamic shadows added for DirectX-11 users. At the time Battlefield: Bad Company 2 was published, DICE was also working on the Frostbite-2.0 game engine. This upcoming engine will include native support for DirectX-10.1 and DirectX-11, as well as parallelized processing support for 2-8 parallel threads. This will improve performance for users with an Intel Core-i7 processor. Unfortunately, the Extreme Edition Intel Core i7-980X six-core CPU with twelve threads will not see full utilization. In our benchmark tests of Battlefield: Bad Company 2, the first three minutes of action in the single-player raft night scene are captured with FRAPS. Relative to the online multiplayer action, these frame rate results are nearly identical to daytime maps with the same video settings. The Frostbite-1.5 game engine in Battlefield: Bad Company 2 appears to equalize our test set of video cards, and despite AMD's sponsorship of the game it still plays well using any brand of graphics card.
Cost Analysis: Battlefield: Bad Company 2 (1680x1050)Test Summary: As DirectX 11 titles go, Battlefield: Bad Company 2 is not the most demanding. Even the lower end GTX 460 and HD6850 can deliver above average frame rates. The good news is that you can rest assured that your video card won't be the cause of your lag in this game.
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Comments
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Nowhere did he say that he himself agreed and actually said he disagreeed.
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I wanted to put this graphics card on my system with full 4gb of RAM. I already updated the bios system to hande 2.1 PCIe. Would it work on my motherboard? How would it run if so?
Thank you
I was thinking about this HIS ice 6870 or this:
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Which would you prefer? Or what other card would you consider?
Thanks
This is what I found that I think would go well:
##newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127608
"More overclocking headroom could be unlocked for the GPU Core and Memory speeds using the unofficial overclocking method in MSI Afterburner, but I wasn't able to keep this card stable during testing when I went past the previous limits. I bumped the vCore to the max 1.30V and was able to push the clock speeds to 1000MHz GPU and 1250MHz (5GHz effective) Memory and still remain stable during the benchmarking run."
#in.asus.com/Motherboards/Intel_Socket_1155/P8H67M_LX/
and wanted to know whether this graphics card would work on it .So will it work ?