Upgrading 8800gts, $200-350 budget

compuwiz · Dec 1, 2013

I am looking for advice on upgrading my evga geforce 8800gts 512. I have been looking at the evga gtx 760 sc and the 770 sc. I am not sure if it is worth the extra money as I am trying to save money off possible, but also have the card last a while. I am planning on running two 24" monitors. Would a 2gb card be OK, or should I look for a 4gb one? I have been reading posts on this forum looking to see if someone already answered this, but I'm not sure which would be advisable since it has to power two monitors. Writing this from my phone, so I know I missed the capitalization on all the card names.

Thanks

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130932
Or
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130921

smorizio · Dec 1, 2013

what the cpu and power supply in your rig. if it an older one it may need to be replaced to take a gpu of that size and speed.

Controller Vrelk · Dec 2, 2013

It is a core i7 920, 6gb ddr3 memory. I will have to double check, but I believe it is a 700W psu. Just realised I posted using the wrong account when creating this topic, dislike the name on it. I upgraded the system once already, but the graphics card, case, and drives were the only things that stayed the same. I also don't have to stay with evga, just went to them first since I have a video card and motherboard of theirs already.

smorizio · Dec 2, 2013

two 760 are not bad in sli. with a 700w power supply i would get one fast gpu. (770). to be safe with two fast gpu use a 850w ps.

Controller Vrelk · Dec 2, 2013

It is a 700W psu.
http://valid.canardpc.com/crd5p1

I'm not familiar with ATI cards and how the stats compare to NVIDIA cards, but I'm kinda pulling money out of a hat for this one. Is there anything that you know of that is either as good as or close to the GTX 770 I linked (either NVIDIA or ATI) that would save me some money? I don't want to go too cheap though, because that will just mean I have to upgrade sooner. I'm also trying to decide if it is worth the extra $100 to go from the 760 to 770, if I get either of those that is. My motherboard supports 3xSLI, so I would have the possibility of expanding in the future, not sure if it supports crossfire though.

smorizio · Dec 2, 2013

http://hothardware.com/Reviews/NVIDIA-GeForce-GTX-760-Review-/?page=7
if you look at some of these hard game the 760/770 is faster then a lot of the amd cpu.

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