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arcanehack

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This is a different kind of question since you could probably tell by the title. But anyway so here it is what I want to know I have a 550 ti dedicated Nvidia card and I love it but when it comes to 2 display it loses itself by 20 or more fps in any game. I recently unlocked it so that my integrated HD 4200 graphics help take the stress of it with my 2 displays. It has helped me a great deal with getting stress off of my dedicated card and now I am using the integrated card for recording games I play, but it struggles a bit on bf3. So my question is, should I get another amd card and do hybrid with it because again I'm not playing games with it just recording or should I get a Nvidia card(such as a gt 610)? What do you think will give me more performance for my buck? (I'm not going over 75 dollars). And I only have an open pci x1 slot so that's why I'm asking. But I also don't want it to have any driver issues with my 550, and so far the amd and Nvidia drivers are going pretty good together so I am leaning a bit towards amd unless I can be persuaded other wise.
 
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You honestly need to be sure buying more graphics power will fix your problem before you drop money. Recording gameplay footage, whilst playing an online FPS with lots of players is stressful work for the PC, specifically the CPU/Ram and harddrive (depending on recording software). It could turn out, that you are getting sluggish performance because your recording software is causing slowdowns when it tries to move the footage from RAM to the harddrive... Speaking from personal experience Fraps used to be terrible.

Or the Cpu slows because of the multiple displays and software..

You say the problem is recording Bf3 (therefore i assume bf3 usually runs ok?) If it usually runs ok, your Fps slowdown is likely not graphics...
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You honestly need to be sure buying more graphics power will fix your problem before you drop money. Recording gameplay footage, whilst playing an online FPS with lots of players is stressful work for the PC, specifically the CPU/Ram and harddrive (depending on recording software). It could turn out, that you are getting sluggish performance because your recording software is causing slowdowns when it tries to move the footage from RAM to the harddrive... Speaking from personal experience Fraps used to be terrible.

Or the Cpu slows because of the multiple displays and software..

You say the problem is recording Bf3 (therefore i assume bf3 usually runs ok?) If it usually runs ok, your Fps slowdown is likely not graphics related.



Finally i don't think (if you are currently running PCI-e x16 v3 on your primary slot... You can't effectively do crossfire with your current motherboard. ).
SLI [what i use] requires 2x PCIx16's to use both cards effectively in SLI, you cannot run it on a motherboard with one PCI x16 and one PCIx1... I imagine it is the same with crossfire, but i'm not speaking from experience with crossfire.


An easy way to work out if the graphics card will help your situation is, whilst recording... Drop the game resolution down.
If it still chuggs bad it is likely either a CPU issue or even a harddrive issue [recording gameplay footage whilst playing is what caused me to buy my first fast harddrive eons ago -- Nowadays SSD's will do. ]

If it's a Cpu issue.. it could be being caused by the fact you have, as you already said, given up part of your cpu to help out with displaying the onboard GPU.




Going back to your original question though, i'd get neither of what you suggested personally:
- Because you have a PCIx1, crossfire wont be effective...
- The lesser of the 2 evils though is the 610 (the 6 being the series, the '10' being the model [horrific] -- you're just throwing money away )
BUT... It would likely perform better than the onboard gpu, and free up CPU resources.


Good luck :eek:)
 
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