- Jun 15, 2013
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Hey all,
First post so let me know if I end up doing this wrong. It seems to me like I want to pick up a GTX 660 card to replace my GTX 285. I'm a little lost as to what the differences are between manufacturers of this card. Also, my Mobo supports PCI2.0 slots, yet the GTX 660 uses PCI3.0. From what I gather the two slots are interchangeable at this point in time.
APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Looking to buy this week or next
BUDGET RANGE: $150-250
USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Primarily gaming, watching movies.
CURRENT GPU AND POWER SUPPLY: EVGA GTX 285 and Corsair 750TX 750W PSU.
OTHER RELEVANT SYSTEM SPECS: EVGA x58 SLI LE Mobo with Intel i7 core @2.67 GHz. (I'm not experienced enough to know when to overclock and how overclocking changes performance. The Mobo has a built in overclock option that puts it to 3.33GHz.)
PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: Newegg, Amazon
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: U.S.
PARTS PREFERENCES: I've had bad experiences with Sapphire cards, but this may have been from my inexperience (heating issues).
OVERCLOCKING: At the moment no, but I'll read up on this.
MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1600x900
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: I'm looking to replace this card twofold: I've been getting continual "Display Driver has stopped working" errors, and experienced artifacting during games, as well as straight black screen. I've updated, rolledback, reinstalled the drivers more times that I can count, so I'm not sure whats going on with it. Temp never gets above 80degrees C. The second reason being I have the cash for it, and I think it's due time for an upgrade.
I'm also running 6GB of ram, and looking upgrade to 8GB 1600MHz. I've noticed that while the ram I bought was rated at 1600MHz, during start up it reads 1333MHz. There is an option to bump this speed up in the built in overclocking software of the motherboard, but I am hesitate to mess with any of that.
Thank you,
Ian
First post so let me know if I end up doing this wrong. It seems to me like I want to pick up a GTX 660 card to replace my GTX 285. I'm a little lost as to what the differences are between manufacturers of this card. Also, my Mobo supports PCI2.0 slots, yet the GTX 660 uses PCI3.0. From what I gather the two slots are interchangeable at this point in time.
APPROXIMATE PURCHASE DATE: Looking to buy this week or next
BUDGET RANGE: $150-250
USAGE FROM MOST TO LEAST IMPORTANT: Primarily gaming, watching movies.
CURRENT GPU AND POWER SUPPLY: EVGA GTX 285 and Corsair 750TX 750W PSU.
OTHER RELEVANT SYSTEM SPECS: EVGA x58 SLI LE Mobo with Intel i7 core @2.67 GHz. (I'm not experienced enough to know when to overclock and how overclocking changes performance. The Mobo has a built in overclock option that puts it to 3.33GHz.)
PREFERRED WEBSITE(S) FOR PARTS: Newegg, Amazon
COUNTRY OF ORIGIN: U.S.
PARTS PREFERENCES: I've had bad experiences with Sapphire cards, but this may have been from my inexperience (heating issues).
OVERCLOCKING: At the moment no, but I'll read up on this.
MONITOR RESOLUTION: 1600x900
ADDITIONAL COMMENTS: I'm looking to replace this card twofold: I've been getting continual "Display Driver has stopped working" errors, and experienced artifacting during games, as well as straight black screen. I've updated, rolledback, reinstalled the drivers more times that I can count, so I'm not sure whats going on with it. Temp never gets above 80degrees C. The second reason being I have the cash for it, and I think it's due time for an upgrade.
I'm also running 6GB of ram, and looking upgrade to 8GB 1600MHz. I've noticed that while the ram I bought was rated at 1600MHz, during start up it reads 1333MHz. There is an option to bump this speed up in the built in overclocking software of the motherboard, but I am hesitate to mess with any of that.
Thank you,
Ian
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