NVIDIA GeForce 8400 GS - replace or upgrade?
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hybird9012
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It ultimately depends on what you want to use a new graphics card for. The Nvidia 8400 GS runs on PCI Express 2.0, however, there is no real world difference from PCI-e 2.0 to PCI-e 3.0 - in games maybe a few frames at most.
If you want to just upgrade your graphics card you can do that as PCI-e 3.0 cards are backward compatible. Additionally, AMD's top of the line motherboards only run at 2.0 as well.. so in terms of overall system upgrade, you can probably just get by with getting a new card.
However, I'm curious about a few things:
1) What would you use your new video card for? (i.e. gaming, video editing, photo editing, etc..)
2) How much do you want to spend?
3) What are your current system specs? (i.e. what CPU do you have, what type of memory do you have, etc..)
4) What is the rating on your Power Supply (i.e. 300W, 400W, 500W, etc..)
If you want to just upgrade your graphics card you can do that as PCI-e 3.0 cards are backward compatible. Additionally, AMD's top of the line motherboards only run at 2.0 as well.. so in terms of overall system upgrade, you can probably just get by with getting a new card.
However, I'm curious about a few things:
1) What would you use your new video card for? (i.e. gaming, video editing, photo editing, etc..)
2) How much do you want to spend?
3) What are your current system specs? (i.e. what CPU do you have, what type of memory do you have, etc..)
4) What is the rating on your Power Supply (i.e. 300W, 400W, 500W, etc..)
beyondlogic
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300w is a bit low
gt 630 would work on that power supply
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127739
depending if psu is a standard atx or a tfx long rail i cant suggest a better card
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beyondlogic
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you may have needed something stronger then that but if you were using a old 8400gs for video editing then the gt 630 should be far superior
due to 128 bit bus
608 more passmark score then your old card
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