The Official Battlefield 3 Thread

Activision’s marketing machine will not let that happen. They’ll find a way to even out sell blops

Don’t try to recover, lol. I played with most on the 360 from SRK and they sucked or were not team players, I deleted almost everyone from my friends list except for a few (DN3000, etc) but wouldn’t mind adding some of you again just so we can roll deep it’s released.

I really need a PC that isn’t fucking dog shit…v.v

BF2 wallked over CoD’s nuts and it’s 6 years old.

Build one. Save your pennies like I am

Luckily, I’m a geek and a PC nerd, in that aspect, so I’m pretty much good to go, in that regard.

Currently running:

i5 750 @ 3.6GHz on 1.32v (3.6 to 4.0 a negligible gain and not worth the extra heat)
8GB DDR3 @ 1080MHz 7-7-7-20 on 1.55v (tighter timings > higher freq)
GTX 550 Ti (may upgrade to a GTX 580 in the near future)

Please, people, PLEASE! If you’re saving money for a PC, just build it your damn self and save some money instead of shelling extra money for brand names. You can build a comparable system yourself and save $300-$400+ depending on where you’d buy a brand name.

yup I have some PC designs on newegg wishlist and varying prices. You can get a damn fine Intel sandy bridge (p67 or Z68) machine for ~$1200 w/GTX 560 TI. I gotta save up…but IMO, an SSD is a MUST but that will set me back another $200

Tsch…:wonder:

Until SSDs frikkin hurry the hell up and get to the 1TB range at half their prices now, I wouldn’t even bother. It’s
annoying me to no end on how the industry is taking their sweet ass time with that tech, when I could fucking
make a retail product in 1/10th the time they’re taking.

Ahhh, NewEgg—how I could browse your pages all day…

~K.

Get an SSD for your boot partition and put something behind it. I run a 64GB SSD with 2x2TB Caviar Blacks on the backend. (About a $300 setup which is cheap). When you boot up in 15-20 seconds you wont regret the $100 you spent. If you have the money, go for 128GB as the larger the SSD you get the better the read/write time you get. You do not need the latest and greatest SSD drives that came out, the older ones still perform twice as fast (literally) as a spindle.

If there is a game you constantly play, just load it to the SSD and keep the others on your storage drives.

Running an i7 2600k and 8gb Ram with ATi 6850. Still have 40 gbs left on my SSD as well if i really feel like pushing it.

I hope to see yall on the battlefield!

I’d love to build one I, I have no intentions of buying a rig, I just don’t know where to start when it comes to building one. Like what the hell is an SSD and what does it do?

Uhg i wish computers where like cars…I can put an engine together.

lol an engine is prolly 500x harder than a comp. Once you learn how to build a comp youll be set.

SSD is a solid state drive and the simplest explanation is that it loads(and boots) your shit hella faster than a normal hard drive.

Youll prolly want to start with what kind of CPU you want, Intel or AMD. Although almost everybody is getting an i5 or i7 now days, which is from the Intel family. My suggestion is the one im using i7 2600k great powerful cpu for the amount of $

Oh Solid state. No moving parts. Ok.

Intel or AMD? Whats the difference?

in 10 years I’ve never felt the need to buy intel. AMD is cheaper and in some cases out perform intel.

cuz is fun cuz of the gimmicks… not so much gameplay…
if there is even any gameplay…
Killing stuff and watching them die funny is always fun
so I being a monster… duuh…

I just played mondern combat and I remember all the fun from just walking around and blowing stuff up
and the resupply crate… my bff

game looks great on the pc

No gameplay? BF2 shits on almost all the gameplay of any massive FPS. And with BF3 upgrading that, it will be even better.
Unless you call “bringing in a CPU controlled chopper to mow down the opposing team”, gameplay.

Its really not that hard. The PC im using now is the first one Ive ever built and I dont know jack about hardware. First, like someone else said, decide on what CPU you are going to want to use. Then choose a Motherboard that is compatible with it. Then pick a power supply, RAM, GPU (graphics card), HDD, and dvd drive. Make sure you get a case that can hold all the shit with some room to spare.

Do some research online to find out what is good and whats not. Go to newegg.com and look for shit there and read the reviews people leave. Lots of good info there.

P.S. The hardest part of putting my computer together was installing the heat sink. Fuckin’ thing was a pain in the ass to put in there.

CPU, MOBO, and RAM–that’s the basis of ANY system, and 3 aspects of the system you really want to make sure is compatible with each other. Unless your motherboard doesn’t have legacy hardware (i.e. IDE, floppy), then everything else is interchangeable/reusable.

quick thread derail for the guy asking about PC building and SSD

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Small sample size but Everything on your system that has to do with reading or writing from the disk, will be light years better with an SSD vs HDD.Booting into windows, loading all programs and games, transferring data. All much faster.

How to Build
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