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ATI Radeon to Nvidea GeForce GTX 650 swap

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June 20, 2013 10:42:59 AM

I'd like to know if there are any looming landmines I can avoid in doing a graphics card swap. I am putting my ATI Radeon X9150 XTX out to pasture and have been told from three sources that a GTX 650 will step down to the 1.0 PCIE with a handful of % loss in performance. I've only ever put a graphics card in a new system, never removed a legacy card for a new one; and at the same time going from one monitor to two.

I can uninstall the ATI Catalyst thing in the program management, and I have the amd_cleanup_util_1.2.1.0 thing I can run too. I have a contract job starting shortly and I'd like to get the new stuff up and running with as few bumps as possible.

What I have:

Windows 7 Professional 64bit SP1
Intel Xenon X3210 2.13ghz
ATI Radeon X1950 XTX 512mb GDDR4+DVI-I+DVI-I+VIVO
4x 2GB 1066 DDR2
P35 Neo2-FR w/ 2x PCI Express 16X

New:

Gigabyte GeForce GTX 650 OC 2GB GDDR5 PCI-Express 3.0 2xDVI-D/HDMI/D-SUB Graphics Card GV-N650OC-2GI

If the work keeps up I'd like to chuck the P35 Neo in favor of a i7 DDR3 and PCIE 3.0 MoBo. That's another can of worms that's going to take some education. Need to see where my existing drives factor into that equation.

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June 20, 2013 11:01:18 AM

The GTX 650 should work well, and your power supply should be more than sufficient since the X1950 XTX draws more power and requires the same 6-pin PCIe power connector the GTX 650 does.

My only objection here is that the GTX 650 is poor value. You could get a Radeon HD 7750 for less, but it's just as fast as the GTX 650. Or you could get a Radeon HD 7770, which is faster but costs about the same as the GTX 650.
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