Battlefield 3 on a gt730

[Add2017]

Hi guys I have a prebuilt dell with an i3240 and a gt730 I am saving up for a gaming PC but in the meantime I am playing some older games, anyway I was wondering if my PC would be up to running battlefield 3 if anyone has any idea then that would be great thx.

[GDRRiley]

yeah you can, my laptop had a gt635m and the gt 730 is 60% faster, exepct something like 1600x900 at low to be about 40-50fps. 

[Add2017]

Just now, GDRRiley said:

yeah you can, my laptop had a gt635m and the gt 730 is 60% faster, exepct something like 1600x900 at low to be about 40-50fps. 

Thx sounds great

[Not_Sean]

Why save up for a whole gaming machine ? good option could be save up for a 1050ti or 460 and put that in, While the i3 isnt ideal for gaming it isn't garbage. Hell I've seen a C2duo with a good card hold up surprisingly well.

than when budget allows do the CPu+Mb+Ram upgrade. 

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2 minutes ago, Not_Sean said:

Why save up for a whole gaming machine ? good option could be save up for a 1050ti or 460 and put that in, While the i3 isnt ideal for gaming it isn't garbage. Hell I've seen a C2duo with a good card hold up surprisingly well.

than when budget allows do the CPu+Mb+Ram upgrade. 

Battlefield 3 system requirements:
 

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OS: Vista Service Pack 2 32-bit.

• Processor: 2GHZ Dual Core (Core 2 Duo 2.4GHZ or Athlon x2 2.7GHZ)
• Memory: 2GB RAM.

Not wrong.

[Not_Sean]

1 minute ago, fpo said:

Battlefield 3 system requirements:
 

Not wrong.

hahah thanks, Yeah its actually crazy, We did my Redstone system, ran games and got average FPS, than put my GPU and SSD into a Core2Quad system with fresh install and did it as well and yes the modern CPU kicked the daylights out of it in benchmarks, for us playing the games the C2Q did really really well considering its age. 

If OP finds a i5 or even a i7-3770 he's going to be set for a while to come. Combo that with the savings of not shelling out for a whole new system and does PSU and a 1060/1070 or Vega throw in a SSD and you have a very very capable gaming system without again having to completely buy a new everything. 

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Just now, Not_Sean said:

hahah thanks, Yeah its actually crazy, We did my Redstone system, ran games and got average FPS, than put my GPU and SSD into a Core2Quad system with fresh install and did it as well and yes the modern CPU kicked the daylights out of it in benchmarks, for us playing the games the C2Q did really really well considering its age. 

If OP finds a i5 or even a i7-3770 he's going to be set for a while to come. Combo that with the savings of not shelling out for a whole new system and does PSU and a 1060/1070 or Vega throw in a SSD and you have a very very capable gaming system without again having to completely buy a new everything. 

What games were you running?

 

Also noticed your name is Not Sean, wish I noticed that earlier so I could have made that pun more blatent. Hahaha.

[Not_Sean]

Just now, fpo said:

What games were you running?

 

Also noticed your name is Not Sean, wish I noticed that earlier so I could have made that pun more blatent. Hahaha.

we did Dota / CS:GO / Boarderlands / ARK / GTA V.  The first two were as I was giving the c2Q to Girlfriends Brother and those were what he was going to play and what most people play. the rest for the lols. and again they were very playable after a bit of settings tweaks. and yeah the GPU was prob bottlenecked through the roof it didn't show in a way that ruined our gaming experience. 

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45 minutes ago, Not_Sean said:

we did Dota / CS:GO / Boarderlands / ARK / GTA V.  The first two were as I was giving the c2Q to Girlfriends Brother and those were what he was going to play and what most people play. the rest for the lols. and again they were very playable after a bit of settings tweaks. and yeah the GPU was prob bottlenecked through the roof it didn't show in a way that ruined our gaming experience. 

The C2Q used in one of the scrapyard wars went pretty well too.

Even GHG got a lot of performance out of it.