Battlefield 3 Minimum Requirements Buyers Guide

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E6600 @ 2.4ghz , 2gb Ram, 5550 DDR3
3DmarkVantage : P3324
CPU : 3995
GPU : 3148

Battlefield 3 Minimum Stated Requirements ....

Core 2 Duo 2.4ghz, AthlonX2 2.7ghz
2gb Ram
8800gt/3870 (BS!)
DirectX 10.1 , 11
Windows Vista / 7
1Mbit/s Broadband connection

Don't be too concerned about the 2.4ghz Intel requirement, it's two generations back, newer CPU's are faster clock for clock! For laptops just make sure your CPU has 2 cores and scores above 1800 points on the 3dmark06 column!

1366x768 is the standard laptop resoultion, that is roughly the same amount of pixels as 1280x1024 so you can expect the same performance as I get when looking at the Laptop GPU chart. You can also adjust it down to 1280x720 and the game will still look great.

If you have an available PCI-E slot and are just running onboard video, there are quite a few nice video cards for under $100 that will run the game just fine.

6670 DDR5
6670 DDR3
5670 DDR5 - 8800gt.
6570 DDR5
GT 440 DDR5 ---- Guesstimating Medium settings / Med Resolution
GT 240 DDR5
GT 440 DDR3
5570 DDR3 ---- Mix of Low/Med Settings / Med Resolution
GT 430 DDR3
GT 240 DDR3
4670 DDR3
5550 DDR3 ---- My Card.
GT 220 DDR3
4650 DDR3
5550 DDR2

Avoid the G210, 5450, 6450, GT 520, 4350, 9400gt, 8400gs. You could get playable on some, but you may have to run at 800x600 or 640x480. Just youtube their gameplay to double check though!

HT4U.net performance summary ...
http://ht4u.net/reviews/2011/amd_radeon_hd_6570_hd_6670_turks_im_test/index30...

Laptop GPU list ... 6620G and above !!! The 6520G on the A6-3400M is playable on Single and Co-op, I can't verify if it would be good enough on a large multimap
http://www.notebookcheck.net/AMD-Radeon-HD-6850M.43079.0.html

Laptop CPU list ...
http://www.notebookcheck.net/Mobile-Processors-Benchmarklist.2436.0.html

CPU-Z
http://www.cpuid.com/softwares/cpu-z.html
GPU-Z
http://www.techpowerup.com/gpuz/

Tomshardware Hierarchy ...
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/best-graphics-card-gaming-performance,304...

BF3 ... 30+ cards tested ...
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/battlefield-3-graphics-performance,3063.html
MOAR BF3 ...
http://www.guru3d.com/article/battlefield-3-vga-and-cpu-performance-benchmark...

BF3 CPU Scaling ...
http://www.techspot.com/review/448-battlefield-3-beta-performance/page7.html

In-game IMAGE settings and quality ...
http://www.guru3d.com/article/battlefield-3-vga-and-cpu-performance-benchmark...

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[TheAcousticPresence]

Acer Aspire 5517 AMD Athlon 64 x2 Duel Core Processor 1.60GHz

3 gigs ram 64 bit op system.

I know this video tells me but i'm pretty much an idiot. Yay or nay :(?

[WestCoastPCbuilder]

@TheAcousticPresence Nay.

[CheeseAndCrackers404]

please reply fast my bday is in like 10 days so I wish to make a purchase before then. thx.

[CheeseAndCrackers404]

Will the Radeon HD 6570 GFX card work with my HP pavilion p6000 series. I want to run things like dead island and bf3. I want to know if it will fit onto my mother board. If it will work with the HP pavilion p6000. I have a 7 inch standard case.

[WestCoastPCbuilder]

@sadwhale57 The integrated graphics isn't powerful enough for BF3.

[sadwhale57]

@WestCoastPCbuilder hey i have a hp touchsmart 300 will it run bf3 or not i have it on ps3 sooo if its a yes then awsome if its no then ok but can my pc run bf3

[nfsfu]

@WestCoastPCbuilder okay, thanks alot for everything!

[WestCoastPCbuilder]

@nfsfu I just wanted to see, there's another version with 112 shaders, I was just curious. The game will run just fine on your GFX card.

[nfsfu]

@WestCoastPCbuilder Um okay, I downloaded it.

Shaders: 96 Unified / Shader: 1242 Mhz and below it 1250 Mhz

Rasters: i read carefully and there where no rasters?

rops: 16

is that what u wanted to know?