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Thinking about Gigabyte GTX760

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August 13, 2013 1:10:13 PM

Hello,

I'm thinking about upgrading my Display card, which now i have ati 5770(GV-R577UD-1GD),very nice card i must say

I had several cards in mind but one really stood up for me:
Gigabyte NVIDIA GeForce GTX760 OC 2GB GDDR5,in my country it cost about 419$

I don't know if this is the best choise for my system to run at best settings so I'm consulting here (:

This are my specs:

Processor i920 2.66GHz 8MB CORE I7 1366 QUAD 920

GPU:
ATI REDEON 5770 1G-5 GIGABYTE
GV-R577UD-1GD

Mother board-GIGABYTE
GAX58AUD3R

Power supply-
12CM FAN A.PFC WIN+600 600W HEC

Box-
VK90001N2Z ELEMENT T THEMAK TAKE

SCREEN:
bx2440 pivot LCD LED MEGA DCR 24 SAMSUNG

RAM-
8GB ram

WIN 7 64BIT

My system is a bit more then 3 years old...upgraded nothing but memory as of yet

More about : thinking gigabyte gtx760

August 13, 2013 1:12:59 PM

It will work, no problems.
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August 13, 2013 9:20:57 PM

hizodge said:
It will work, no problems.


I was told that my i7 is not powefull enough to work with the gpu,and that i should consider replace my power supply
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August 14, 2013 2:04:25 AM

The Core i7 920 is a great processor once overclocked. I wish I'd bought it back when it came out as it still performs great in games. If you haven't overclocked it yet, you should. If you for whatever reason don't want to, then I would also recommend you get a new motherboard and CPU.

As for the power supply, yeah I can see why somebody would say that, it's not by a 'trusted' brand and therefore can cause problems if you increase the load. I would say however, is that if it has worked fine for you until now, there's little reason to replace it until those issues turn up.
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August 14, 2013 2:56:26 AM

hizodge said:
The Core i7 920 is a great processor once overclocked. I wish I'd bought it back when it came out as it still performs great in games. If you haven't overclocked it yet, you should. If you for whatever reason don't want to, then I would also recommend you get a new motherboard and CPU.

As for the power supply, yeah I can see why somebody would say that, it's not by a 'trusted' brand and therefore can cause problems if you increase the load. I would say however, is that if it has worked fine for you until now, there's little reason to replace it until those issues turn up.


Yea i get what you are saying but i herd it's dangerous to OC the cpu? how can i do it properly without damaging the Cpu ??
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August 14, 2013 9:38:43 AM

Find a good guide online for overclocking Core i7 920, set yourself a realistic goal, find out how far you can get, then pull the frequency back a little bit. Increased voltages and temperature do shorten the lifespan of the CPU overtime, but very rarely if ever will kill it outright.

3.6 - 3.8 GHz is very doable on that chip as long as you've got decent motherboard and ample cooling.
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August 14, 2013 9:45:50 AM

hizodge said:
Find a good guide online for overclocking Core i7 920, set yourself a realistic goal, find out how far you can get, then pull the frequency back a little bit. Increased voltages and temperature do shorten the lifespan of the CPU overtime, but very rarely if ever will kill it outright.

3.6 - 3.8 GHz is very doable on that chip as long as you've got decent motherboard and ample cooling.


So how can i know if i have decent motherboard and Good CPU cooling? there is some cooling over the CPU but is it good enough...? IDK

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August 14, 2013 9:50:53 AM

Most X58 boards are capable of pretty high level overclocks, even the cheaper ones. The only way to know how your CPU and motherboard will fare is to try it for yourself. If you look up a good guide for overclocking I'm sure it will tell you the safe temperature/voltage limits, how to set and monitor them. If it does not, it's not a good guide.

You'll just have to find out for yourself. If you don't want to, you can always cough up money and buy new stuff.
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August 14, 2013 10:04:48 AM

hizodge said:
Most X58 boards are capable of pretty high level overclocks, even the cheaper ones. The only way to know how your CPU and motherboard will fare is to try it for yourself. If you look up a good guide for overclocking I'm sure it will tell you the safe temperature/voltage limits, how to set and monitor them. If it does not, it's not a good guide.

You'll just have to find out for yourself. If you don't want to, you can always cough up money and buy new stuff.


Obviously it's not practical to replace my motherboad in order to gain a bit more performance so i better check the OC option so i can fully enjoy from a new GPU,

And one more thing, does it matter if i pay more $ for the 4GB ram version? is there a difference that makes it worth buying for?
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August 14, 2013 11:32:23 AM

The short answer would be 'no'. Don't get the 4GB version
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August 14, 2013 1:30:26 PM

hizodge said:
The short answer would be 'no'. Don't get the 4GB version


You need to understand that i'm not going to replace this card for at least 2 years so i must consider all options even if now they seem useless
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August 14, 2013 1:48:04 PM

I understand very well. I still don't think that the GPU in a single GTX 760 is strong enough to be able to effectively utilize more than 2GB of VRAM. If you know or you were planning on putting 3 of them in SLI and playing above 1080p resolutions then I might recommend the 4GB version instead.
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August 14, 2013 1:53:41 PM

hizodge said:
I understand very well. I still don't think that the GPU in a single GTX 760 is strong enough to be able to effectively utilize more than 2GB of VRAM. If you know or you were planning on putting 3 of them in SLI and playing above 1080p resolutions then I might recommend the 4GB version instead.


I might use Crossfire in the future with only two of these card so no need for 4GB in this case?

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August 14, 2013 3:59:29 PM

Crossfire is the name for multiple linked AMD GPUs. For Nvidia it's called SLI. So long as you stick to 1080p resolution I don't see a reason to get anything above 2GB. At any rate, even at 2560x1440 or 2560x1600 resolution it's very rare that you'll end up needing more than 2GB.
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