- Mar 2, 2014
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Hello people,
this is my first post here and I hope to have a nice stay and can maybe answer some of your guys and girls questions along the way.
So last week my laptop completely fried, it was a decent laptop with good specs, but sadly I don't have the time to fix it nor the money. It had pretty bad fans that were probably clogged with dust and I believe it overheated - anyway - enough of that.
I have this old pre-built Advent DT1404. It's just been sitting collecting dust for half a year and I decided to make it into a nice mid-range build. The first step I'm going to take is installing a GTX 750Ti, because the PC only has a 305W PSU in there at the moment (which will be upgraded to a Corsair 430W within a fortnight). You might be asking 'why upgrade the GPU so soon with such a weak PSU?' and my answer is this: it has integrated graphics and there's no way I'm running that for a fortnight and the GTX 750Ti has a low power consumption due to it's Maxwell architecture. The motherboard - in-case you're wondering - has a spare PCI Express x16 slot for the GPU.
My question is this, will my CPU bottleneck my GPU? I want to run at least 30 FPS on games on medium settings. Bearing in mind when I get the money after buying my PSU I will buy an i3-i5 depending on how much I've saved. So, will the G620 and GTX 750Ti pair up and be 30 FPS worthy for the time being? I have no idea. But maybe some of you guys do. Please answer and give me an idea of if upgrading this new rig will be worth it.
this is my first post here and I hope to have a nice stay and can maybe answer some of your guys and girls questions along the way.
So last week my laptop completely fried, it was a decent laptop with good specs, but sadly I don't have the time to fix it nor the money. It had pretty bad fans that were probably clogged with dust and I believe it overheated - anyway - enough of that.
I have this old pre-built Advent DT1404. It's just been sitting collecting dust for half a year and I decided to make it into a nice mid-range build. The first step I'm going to take is installing a GTX 750Ti, because the PC only has a 305W PSU in there at the moment (which will be upgraded to a Corsair 430W within a fortnight). You might be asking 'why upgrade the GPU so soon with such a weak PSU?' and my answer is this: it has integrated graphics and there's no way I'm running that for a fortnight and the GTX 750Ti has a low power consumption due to it's Maxwell architecture. The motherboard - in-case you're wondering - has a spare PCI Express x16 slot for the GPU.
My question is this, will my CPU bottleneck my GPU? I want to run at least 30 FPS on games on medium settings. Bearing in mind when I get the money after buying my PSU I will buy an i3-i5 depending on how much I've saved. So, will the G620 and GTX 750Ti pair up and be 30 FPS worthy for the time being? I have no idea. But maybe some of you guys do. Please answer and give me an idea of if upgrading this new rig will be worth it.
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