Hello everyone. I think for a long time to collect some money for PC upgrade. Also, I will get a new monitor first, I think about ViewSonic 22" VA2212a (1920x1080)... What is important now is the graphics card. AMD 7790 1 GB, looks very interesting to me, but it annoys me that I do not know whether the AMD Athlon II X4 630 (2.80 GHz) work well with it. AMD 7770/7750 is not bad also, but I dont know. I want good performance. So, what do you think? Maybe some other GPU you have on mind... Now I have ATI HD4850, and 1280x1024 monitor.
AMD Athlon II X4 630 and what GPU?
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What is your current motherboard? That CPU is going to hold you back in games due to its lack of L3 cache.
My current motherboard is Gigabyte MA770-US3, I plan to overclock my CPU to 3.2 GHz or 3.3 GHz... People say that they have even AMD 7850 with this CPU, and they works good. But again, I dont know... What about AMD 7770? Better than 7750, worse than AMD 7790?...
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What power supply do you currently have? Overclocking will add more wattage usage to the system. If you are kind of borderline now, you might want to consider a GTX 750/750ti.
An Athlon II will bottleneck any higher end GPUs regardless of overclock and some mid range GPUs depending on the game. I have an Athlon 645 (3.1 Ghz) and it bottlenecks an AMD HD6850 by a fair amount in CPU intensive games. A HD 7770 would probably be a very good match for your Athlon 630.
Its not here about budget... I need to get new monitor first, then new GPU, I dont have a lot of money for all, and I think that its better to have good GPU in my case, because my ATI HD4850 is too old... My friend have AMD Athlon II x4 650 (3.0 GHz), AMD 7750 1GB, 4 GB ram and play Metro: Last Light on 1920x1080 HIGH (NO Super-Sampling, NO tesellation, NO advanced physix), by this if I get AMD 7770, I will play on VERY HIGH (except listed things), its not big difrent for AMD Athlon II 630 and 650. I am not BF or CoD gamer.
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You will have a pretty good bottleneck there, if you really think that CPU is sufficient, get a 7790 or 7850 and get a new CPU and motherboard as soon as you have the money, but honestly, you're wasting your money until you do a full upgrade.
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GTX 750ti uses like 60w. It gets all of its power from the PCI-E slot, so it doesn't need an external PCI-E connector. If your psu was a lower wattage one, it would make sense to go with one. The GTX 750ti is faster than a 7790 also.
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You will get some bottleneck, yes. I offered it as a suggestion in the event your power supply wasn't very good. I would rather buy a card that will give me better performance, despite a bottleneck by the cpu, and not have to buy a new PSU too. A 7770 and a quality PSU would easily match the cost of a 750ti.
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