I got the Nvidia GeForce GTX 760 SC (SuperClocked) at Amazon.co.uk and it costed about 220Euro, less than 250 dollars in the Amaerican Amazon store I think, and it is really powerful, can play Crysis 3 at Ultra and 1080p and using 3D Vision without the FPS going lower than 40.
By the way, you posted the same topic twice.
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No prob at all, pleasure to help a bit! Forgot to mention it was manufactured by EVGA, it's this one.
Also, check your PC's connections, most modern GPUs require a 8 and/or 4 pin connectors. If your PC doesn't have of those, you can buy some SATA-to-8 and 4PIN connectors. That one uses 1 of each.
I managed to overclock it a bit further its specs there using Precision X (it is included with the card), but you shouldn't try to do so because you could burn the GPU out or reduce drastically its lifespan, so I wouldn't recommend you even installing Precision X unless you know what you are doing.
Remember to compare it with other Cards and see which one fits best the games you are going to play.
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What are your other pc specs? No point buying a powerful card if your pc wont be able to use that power. Geforce gtx 760, 770 or AMD's Radeon R9 280x would be good cards but they too need to be paired with i5-2500k and above or AMD's equivalent to get most out of them
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Though as pci-e is going to be the standard for a good while now, and they'll be backwards compatibility between pci-e versions, graphics cards are one of the few things you can easily take with you to a new rig.
To answer op, I personally recommend the Video Card Benchmark site by PassMark. It's a good way to compare raw power vs cost across the board all major offerings. Once you see a card you like that won't break the bank, do a little extra focused research by looking at specific reviews of it.
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If you want something cheap but powerful, I'd suggest an NVidia GTX 750 Ti.
Very cheap, runs cool and quiet, it's three times as fast as the HD 7750, you can easily and safely overclock it for an extra kick, and all with only 65W!
Whoever's paying the electricity bill will save something like £100 a year, so you should definitely be granted some financial contribution from them.
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You know, the HD7750 itself doesn't need more than 50W in a typical load scenario. So how's a card that needs less or equal power than the 750Ti (750Ti doesn't always need 65W under load) going to save money on the electricity bill? I'd like to know.
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As far as I know the HD 7750 uses 90W in idle state.
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That's...there's no way. The card doesn't even have a connector for 6-pin PCIe power cables.
It uses around 55W max and idles at <10W
Edit: And the 750Ti is at most 2x more powerful. Not sure how much power costs for you but you wouldn't save £100 a year unless you're moving from something like an R9 280X to integrated graphics...
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I agree, with that CPU there is really no point in upgrading, even gtx 750ti will be bottlenecked by it let alone 760 or higher.
Also there is no point in upgrading on AM3 socket so i'd recommend holding on to the cash and going for complete pc upgrade some time in the future.
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You still forgot to mention the most important spec of the PC: the power supply.
I wouldn't recommend the 760 though, it's fairly overpriced, compared to the R9 280. Regional differences might be different than prices here though. The Athlon X4 630 ain't much either. I'd go for a R9 270X at best, after that you're absolutely certain to hit the CPU limit.
Edit: Ofc, even cards like the 270X will be bottlenecked. But under that, you're paying too much of a price for too little of an upgrade. And of course, you won't need to upgrade the GPU again when upgrading the CPU (hopefully sometime soon)
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Then again if he does upgrade to something nice the 270x already struggles at 1080p on current games, and assuming he wont be on that lower resolution when he does upgrade the 760/770 or 280x are the minimum he would need to be on the safe side for a couple of years.
Moondra u should figure out if and when you want to upgrade(you really should), what would your budged be and go from there.
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I wouldn't say the 270X struggles. Sure, if you wanna play BF4 with 120 FPS on maxed out settings and some additional 8xMSAA, then yeah, it's the wrong card. But the 760 ain't much faster either and for that imo lousy performance difference, it's overpriced. We're talking $50 price difference here.
And even if that's stuggling (people have different views on "struggling") I don't see the 760 struggling any less, honestly.
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Check which psu you have. You may need to upgrade/ get a better one first. Performance-wise I'd aim for an AMD R9/280 or Nvidia 770. The few bucks you save getting the slower models aren't worth it if you're planning on keeping the card for a long time.
However, I don't see any point if you're going to continue using your current monitor. The resolution is tiny, a lot less then what the next-gen consoles are using now.
So, in the long run you're gonna want a new monitor and graphics card. Possibly a new psu. Then a new motherboard and cpu, because your current cpu may become the bottleneck. That depends on what kind of games you play.
Don't you know anyone who's gonna upgrade their pc in the near future? Buying secondhand and selling your current stuff could practically get you a whole new pc.
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Ok, the psu is a bit overkill but it will be fine as long as it's not incompatible to Intel Haswell cpus etc.
But seriously, no "normal" pc needs more than 550-600 watts.
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Am I reading your RAM correctly? 666mhz? o_O
Do you have your RAM underclocked?
I haven't seen RAM that slow for quite a few years.
I thought my 8GB RAM kit was slow at 1600mhz.
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If your budget is basically $400, then you can actually do quite a bit of work to your PC.
I really suggest getting a better CPU, like others have suggested, go for an FX-6300 (I'm using one right now and I love it) and maybe one of the new NVidia 750ti cards and maybe some better RAM, I'm running G.Skill Sniper 1600mhz 8GB and it's only about $90 for 2 4GB sticks. Everything I listed will cost you about $350-$375US.
The only other problem might be your motherboard. Your system is kind of a Frankenstein system like I had back in 2007-2008 before I bought my old notebook.
I'm sure there will be someone else to post that has far more knowledge than I do that can give you better advice though, I wish you luck and happy gaming when you do finally get some upgrades for your rig! :D
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Or go for i5-4690 and new h97 chipset motherboard, will be around 300 or some more which leaves ~100 for future gpu upgrade.
You wont have any need to overclock and if you dont plan on changing your monitor any day soon then your 7750 will drag you around until you do.
FX6300 with decent cooling and motherboard will be about hundred less which leaves more cash free for graphics card but power wise there is no competition. FX8xx series will also be a bit cheaper than i5 but performance still worse or comparable and power consumption heavily favors intel.
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Sure the i5-4690 performs a bit better but it's at least double the price of the FX-6300, IMHO it's really not worth it if you can go with the FX-6300 (which is around $110) and then spend the extra money on a decent AM3+ motherboard and a nice GPU. Technically my FX-6300 isn't OC'd, it just turbo's to 4.1Ghz so you don't even need to OC it. If you have good case cooling it runs great.
IMO I would go with a better GPU and the AMD CPU, but it's really up to Moondra to decide.
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i'm using i3-4330 and it's on par with fx6300@4.5ghz despite having a lot less cores. There are only few games(and VERY slight difference in fps) in which fx6300 fares better and if you are not using multithreaded apps like video editing or photoshop heavily there would be no reason to go for the fx6300.
FX may be 110$ but you need to shell out almost as much for a decent motherboard if you plan to oc and then some for the cooler. It will also draw nearly 3 times more power than i3 or i5(i am student renting apartment i do need to watch my bills).
i5 obliderates fx6300 in everything, giving you much higher fps if no gpu bottleneck and with the new chipsets it is also much more futureproof =/
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Ah, OK. I knew something wasn't right. lol
@Moondra: I wouldn't worry about upgrading your RAM then, CPU and GPU are probably a definite upgrade though.
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The next question should be are you willing to OC and mess around with your pc settings?
Absolute minimum for CPU upgrade should be AMD's FX6300 but you need to OC the hell out of it to be any good and you also would need a decent motherboard. The OC part applies to the whole of the FX line, 8xxx and what not.
If you dont want to bother go for the intel's i5, more expensive sure, but even without overclocking it gives you nice performance and will run cooler-more efficiently as well.
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The FX-6300 is a nice little CPU, I have mined OC'd to 4.1Ghz using the stock AMD fan and my temps don't go over 50C when gaming for hours. (My entire PC is air cooled with 5 "fairly" weak fans inside of a TERRIBLE Raidmax mid tower ATX case)
The biggest problem in my current rig is the MSI R7 250 2GB GPU that I had to skimp on when building it. (My original budget was going to include at least an R9 270-R9 280, but life got in the way and I had to settle for the R7 250 or not build anything to game on and stick with my ancient HP G71 notebook [Intel Core2Duo 2.2Ghz, GMA4500 integrated])
Hopefully in the next year I can get a decent card that doesn't drag my CPU through the mud when gaming! >_<
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My 16th birthday is coming up and I'm hoping to get some good money. I really want an upgrade from my 7750HD to something that could play Shadow of Mordor/the Evil Within at 60fps on medium-high settings. What do you guys recommend? I'm not sure what my price range will be,just looking for ideas. Not expecting to get more than $400 at the most. My mom works at Amazon,I think we either get 5% or 10% off. So something from there is preferable.
Edit: Here are my specs
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