According to EA, Battlefield 3 garnered 3 million pre-orders by the day of its release. It is unknown at present whether these figures are worldwide or just for the US. The pre-order total makes it “the biggest first-person shooter launch in EA history”, according to the publisher. The engine is beautiful on the PC and very demanding of the partnering hardware.
We used the game's demanding ‘Ultra' setting and a 1920 x 1080 resolution to push today's gaming hardware.
Battlefield 3 performs very well on the ASRock Z87 OC Formula motherboard. All of the top three boards are designed without a latency-increasing PLX PCI-E Gen 3 lane switch, hence their higher frame rates.