OLD COMPUTER: Legacy Graphics Card Advice-Budget 150$

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I built this guy in 2010 and it's held together well. I have a couple more years before I can start from the ground up.
I currently have a GTX 570 and my primary monitor is a 42in 720p tv.... bigger always being better I snagged a 24in tv out of the guest bedroom to run a dual monitor set up (nothing better than twitch+gaming). Although i'd like to be able to get decent performance if Occulus drops any time in the next 12 months.
I think i may be pushing the old lad too far. I've been having some problems that disappear when i go back to one screen.
I have 2 PCI 2.0x16 slots on my mobo and since i'm not worried about transferring them to a new system what are some recommendations?

I could probably swing the budget to 300 max.
SLI has always sounded neat possibilities?
 
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The 750 TI is meant mostly for very low power consumption, just like the x50 line of Nvidia's cards always are. Additionally, the 750 TI doesn't really perform that much better than the 650 TI. The 750 TI was sort of Nvidia's trial run of the Maxwell architecture, so the 750 TI is very efficient and introduces new tech, but the raw power sort of stagnated from the 650 TI.

It'd take a GTX 660 or higher to beat a GTX 570, and those cost $170-180+. (yes, the 660 performs better than the 750)
I guess for 150, the best you can do is gtx 750 or r7 265. Neither card will give you the raw preformance of gtx 570, but will come close while waiting a lot less power. You could sli 570 just make sure you have a good enough psu (no less than 750w). For 300, you are looking at gtx 760 @250 as your best option. If you can spare 10 dollars, the gtx 770 and 280x become available. I wouldn't sli 570 for hest purposes, if you really want to go sli, gtx 660 and 760 are great options at 360 and 500 respectively.
 

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I have an 850w Power supply "PSU XFX| P1850BCAG9 850W R"
since the 750 is pcie3 card am i going to lose performance over something thats optimized for pcie2? or is it going to be worth the trade?

 
There is literally no difference in performance from PCI-E 2.0 or 3.0 right now.

Now that it's out of the way, you won't really find a better card than the 570 for $150.
The 750 TI is still weaker, about on tier with a 560 in raw performance.
 


The 750 TI is meant mostly for very low power consumption, just like the x50 line of Nvidia's cards always are. Additionally, the 750 TI doesn't really perform that much better than the 650 TI. The 750 TI was sort of Nvidia's trial run of the Maxwell architecture, so the 750 TI is very efficient and introduces new tech, but the raw power sort of stagnated from the 650 TI.

It'd take a GTX 660 or higher to beat a GTX 570, and those cost $170-180+. (yes, the 660 performs better than the 750)
 
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