Well not new new, it's an old 550 TI from a (former) SG visitor, but hey it beats the 430 GT i had.
On the 430 i had to use drivers from 2014 because latest ones up till 4 months ago always gave a bsod, last few drivers worked though i still had some crashes, i hope with the 550 that will be a little less, and since it's more ram and faster, i hope things will be a little less slow.
Dont care for fancy graphics, i grown up with a Vectrex, C64, 8bit and all.
Still needed a new power supply (was supposed to trade it with someone for bunch of steam trading cards but that idea went bust) but thrown in some birthday money.

Puzzle might be possessed

http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-550-Ti-vs-GeForce-GT-430

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Have you tried to reverse the rotational direction of one of your fans? I heard from trustworthy sources around here that you can confuse ghosts and such that way to get rid of your possessed status.

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It confused them, but also me because i also heard some stranges messages, something about the beatles.

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Beatles is fine. Beetlejuice would be a problem.

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I had a real beetle once in my pc case, all covered in dust. If it ever hit the fans, could have been beetlejuice. :x

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I got a new video card this week so I could play PUBG.

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Nice which one?

I won't stop dreaming on getting a more decent pc someday, but have to do with what i got till then.
But even then i'd always want to keep some older hardware for when newer ones won't be able to play older stuff anymore.

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evga GeForce 1050 (not Ti). Nothing fancy, just sufficient to get the job done.

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I had to google the power of the 430...and its less than onboard graphics by now :(
From that the 550 is actually a big improvement I think...hope you have the money for a big and shiny new machine in the future xD

and if there is a real puzzle and you didn't really upgrade...I don't get it....yet xD

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Watt usage is still half on the 430, then the 550, but maybe the last one with a new power supply might be more efficient.
But yeah anything else is a major improvement on every part, though agewise there isn't even that much difference between them.
http://gpuboss.com/gpus/GeForce-GTX-550-Ti-vs-GeForce-GT-430

Thank you. Wanted to buy an extra lottery ticket with an extra chance to fullfill that dream, but i just have to do with 1 now (which could be enough). xD

No i did upgrade the card, and to some it might still be a old (rubbish) card but i am happy with it, and hope it will last me some time till i can afford the new pc, There were issues surrounding the package (they couldn't find it) at the post delivery service and in total i went to them 4 times, made 2 calls, and then i spend 2 hours trying to get the card to work, so bit tired for a real puzzle and the game gets a bit mixed results so dunno how much entries it would get. ;)

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550 ti is pretty decent, its what I put in my mom's pc a few years back and was great for her, though I think she only really played the sims

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Yeah I play alot of retro, indie and TF2, for most games it should be enough.
Some games are borderilne, like won War for the Overworld (who also gave me the card) and then that would be just enough, same hopefully for Final Fantasy Type O, i don't mind lowest settings.

Got an old mobo though so can't SLI it.

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Type O should run quite well, since that was a vita game if I'm not mistaken. Hopefully War of the Overworld will run good, that game looks really fun.
I also don't mind lower settings, quite often prefer it if I'm honest

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Modern drivers should work fine on a 5 series. I am running a GTX 580 with drivers from this year without any problems. I never update drivers unless there is something wrong though.

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They use the same drivers for the 4 series as up till their latest cards i think. It's why the BSOD happened to alot of people (google shows alot of hits) and it took a long time to atleast get it fixed for my 430 card (NVIDIA doesn't care for their old cards anymore).
Same drivers for their products that are over 10 years old and their latest, i think that's just asking for issues.

They tweak alot of new AAA games that might see more improvement with new drivers, but since ours are old and we can't play the latest games we probably will notice less from updates yeah.

I tried putting the 550 in to see if it would atleast run before buying a power supply and it seemed to work without changing drivers, took it out again till the power supply arrives, don't want to risk damaging anything.

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I don't see much of a point to upgrading drivers, I don't think there is much if any performance improvements after the card is a certain age. They make the drivers compatible for the older cards, but I don't think they optimize for the old cards like they do with the newer ones. I bought the 580 used almost 4 years ago and I think I ran the same drivers for 3 years without any problems. I recently bought an SSD and installed Win 7, so I grabbed the latest drivers and they worked fine, but I don't have any plans to update them if I don't have any problems.

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Bump.

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Bump ;)

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Bump!

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Dunno why you didn't like your previous stuff

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