Video Card Question for BF3

[Smoking]

Currently i use a 8800GT overclocked(yes old but works wonders still)

My second computer uses 2 9700GT's but the processor is slower then the computer using my 8800GT, at the moment i can't afford a new video card
I'm Wondering if i should remove a 9700GT and put it the PC with the faster processor

So far i can play BC2 fine with my 8800GT, i gotta turn down some settings mostly the ones I'm not paying to much attention to anyway like shadows or reflections of the water and so forth. I'm kinda wondering what you all would think...

Also i can always test between the two video cards but that's kinda a pain so thought i would ask first.

PC1- newer
AMD Athlon64 II x2 250 3Ghz
4GB Ram
8800GT
(Only one pci-e slot)

PC2- semi older
AMD Athlon 64 x2 5000+ 2.61ghz
2GB Ram
2x 9700GT running in SLI mode

Both pc's i can swap the memory between the both, don't think i can swap the processors though

[SIR Rossy]

I'm an Intel and ATI man but 2 is always better than one, generally anyway ... but since bf3 will be using a fair amount of processing power I would suggest putting the 9700 in the pc with the faster processor. Maybe oc it if you know how

[Smoking]

yeah thinking about doing that also, and yeah overclocking it won't be a issue

[SIR Rossy]

That or buy a new motherboard with 2 pci-e slots! to suit the processor

[JohnyRico]

I just pulled out my 8800 and put in a 560 and went from 3gb of ram to 8. I can see really solid improvement on Deus Ex and Civ 5. My BFBC2 ran really well with the old setup but I was getting some stutter on Deus Ex. I left the Q6600 quad processor in place.

[farebane]

BF3 runs peachy on my system:

AMD64 Phenom Triple Core 2.1 GHz
4GB RAM
Windows 7 64bit
2x 8800GTS (in SLI - running the Beta Drivers 285.3

But I have little doubt that the SLI is what's letting that happen. I would guess that slamming as much RAM as you can into the slightly older PC would get you further along.