Is it good to upgrade
Tags:
-
Gaming
- EVGA
-
Systems
-
Geforce
- Gtx
-
Graphics Cards
Last response: in Systems
Azfar Siddiqui
July 1, 2014 10:21:21 AM
Looking to upgrade my old gaming rig with
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Superclocked 1046MHZ 2GB
and AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
Current system is amd athlon x2 6000
6gb DDR 2
bfg 9800 GT 512 mb.
Im looking to play games on 20" monitor with about high graphics(medium if not) with playable quality. also want to know how long would this hardware will last before dying out with games
p.s please keep in mind i cant choose any processor with am3+ socket coz i have am3 socket MB.
please let me know if its worth upgrading,
EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Superclocked 1046MHZ 2GB
and AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition
Current system is amd athlon x2 6000
6gb DDR 2
bfg 9800 GT 512 mb.
Im looking to play games on 20" monitor with about high graphics(medium if not) with playable quality. also want to know how long would this hardware will last before dying out with games
p.s please keep in mind i cant choose any processor with am3+ socket coz i have am3 socket MB.
please let me know if its worth upgrading,
More about : good upgrade
-
Reply to Azfar Siddiqui
Related resources
- Looking for a Build with Good Future/upgrade ready Components. - Forum
- A good motherboard upgrade? - Forum
- What's a good upgrade? - Forum
- to stay on windows 7 or to upgrade to windows 10 when available? or windows 7 is good enough? - Forum
- Windows 10: Good Idea to upgrade to this permanently? - Forum
Azfar Siddiqui
July 1, 2014 10:31:26 AM
Azfar Siddiqui
July 1, 2014 10:33:09 AM
Andrew Buck said:
swifty_morgan said:
if you get anything bigger than a 2gig 6950 or 7850/70 it'll never get used to it's potential. It depends on the game, but this is true. You should use something like an R7 265.
R7 265 for me is same price as EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Superclocked 1046MHZ 2GB because its on sale. Plus i get free watch dogs lol
-
Reply to Azfar Siddiqui
m
0
l
Azfar Siddiqui
July 1, 2014 10:33:49 AM
-
Reply to Azfar Siddiqui
m
0
l
Well that's at least acceptable, even if it's a CX model.
You could get the r7 265 then, as it's in the same tier as the 7850; going by swifty's recommendation. (and comes with watchdogs
)
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-car...
You could get the r7 265 then, as it's in the same tier as the 7850; going by swifty's recommendation. (and comes with watchdogs
)http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-car...
-
Reply to jaraldo
m
0
l
Azfar Siddiqui said:
jaraldo said:
Considering we don't know the PSU either it's hard to say. A 750ti shouldn't bottleneck too much, should run just as fine in pci-e 2.0 and will run off the PCI-E slot and not the PSU. It can get 30+ fps in ultra on most new games.
I have a 750 watt corsair psu
Hmm... Those usually aren't the best, but I have one and have no issues... The 750 Ti still runs off of the PSU through the motherboard. The 660 is probably fine, but the GTX 750 Ti is also good.
-
Reply to Andrew Buck
m
0
l
Andrew Buck said:
Azfar Siddiqui said:
jaraldo said:
Considering we don't know the PSU either it's hard to say. A 750ti shouldn't bottleneck too much, should run just as fine in pci-e 2.0 and will run off the PCI-E slot and not the PSU. It can get 30+ fps in ultra on most new games.
I have a 750 watt corsair psu
Hmm... Those usually aren't the best, but I have one and have no issues... The 750 Ti still runs off of the PSU through the motherboard. The 660 is probably fine, but the GTX 750 Ti is also good.
Yeah, thanks for clearing that up. (could have confused someone forsure)
Just meant there was no 6-pin required
-
Reply to jaraldo
m
0
l
Azfar Siddiqui said:
swifty_morgan said:
if you get anything bigger than a 2gig 6950 or 7850/70 it'll never get used to it's potential. is it because of the phenom?
yes, it has it's limits. even when over clocked. games and coding changes. cpu's don't.
the 750 listed wouldn't be a bad card but I really don't like the small bus. you can still play lots of games but FC3/Crysis2-3/dogs/and many other newer games will suffer regardless of card. sometimes it's all in the cpu so to speak.
-
Reply to swifty_morgan
m
0
l
jaraldo said:
Andrew Buck said:
Azfar Siddiqui said:
jaraldo said:
Considering we don't know the PSU either it's hard to say. A 750ti shouldn't bottleneck too much, should run just as fine in pci-e 2.0 and will run off the PCI-E slot and not the PSU. It can get 30+ fps in ultra on most new games.
I have a 750 watt corsair psu
Hmm... Those usually aren't the best, but I have one and have no issues... The 750 Ti still runs off of the PSU through the motherboard. The 660 is probably fine, but the GTX 750 Ti is also good.
Yeah, thanks for clearing that up. (could have confused someone forsure)
Just meant there was no 6-pin required
Yeah, but on some there are.
-
Reply to Andrew Buck
m
0
l
Azfar Siddiqui
July 1, 2014 10:45:01 AM
-
Reply to Andrew Buck
m
0
l
Azfar Siddiqui
July 1, 2014 10:48:53 AM
Andrew Buck said:
Azfar Siddiqui said:
so AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition wouldnt really be a good choice as per say?If you could afford a new motherboard like the M5A97 LE R2.0, you could put in an FX-6300 and get great performance.
i would but than new mb means new ram and it all adds up to a big cost. Not that much of big fan of gaming to spend 4-5 hundred dollars for upgrade to play some games here n there(far cry 4, rome total war 2, company of heroes 2) etc
-
Reply to Azfar Siddiqui
m
0
l
Azfar Siddiqui said:
Andrew Buck said:
Azfar Siddiqui said:
so AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition wouldnt really be a good choice as per say?If you could afford a new motherboard like the M5A97 LE R2.0, you could put in an FX-6300 and get great performance.
i would but than new mb means new ram and it all adds up to a big cost. Not that much of big fan of gaming to spend 4-5 hundred dollars for upgrade to play some games here n there(far cry 4, rome total war 2, company of heroes 2) etc
True, forgot that AM3 was DDR2. You should be fine with your setup now, so go for an R7 265 or something along those lines. Good luck!
-
Reply to Andrew Buck
m
0
l
Azfar Siddiqui
July 1, 2014 10:53:10 AM
Azfar Siddiqui said:
so is r7 265 better than EVGA GeForce GTX 660 Superclocked 1046MHZ 2GB ? am asking because i been nvidia fan since first day,and its only 20 bucks more.Well, they are pretty close. You would get close to the same performance with both, because that bottleneck will still barely be there.
-
Reply to Andrew Buck
m
1
l
Best solution
Here's some benchmarks. As stated, about the same performance.
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r7-265-revie...
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r7-265-revie...
-
Reply to jaraldo
Share
Azfar Siddiqui
July 1, 2014 11:32:14 AM
There can be complications sometimes if you are mixing ram. Since you don't seem to have any problem with it and if you have the money, you could go for 2x2 gb.
I would try out 6gb with your new set up and see how it goes. I have a feeling you won't notice much from 6gb compared to 8gb. (4gb to 8gb = difference)
I would try out 6gb with your new set up and see how it goes. I have a feeling you won't notice much from 6gb compared to 8gb. (4gb to 8gb = difference)
-
Reply to jaraldo
m
0
l
Azfar Siddiqui said:
one last thing. is 6gb ram good enough or should i invest in 8gb. i currently have 2gb+2gb+1gb+1gb setup. all slots full. if i do go for 8 gb ill have to take out the 1 gigs.Well that may be holding you back having such an odd setup of RAM. I would say get 2 4 GB sticks of this: http://www.amazon.com/Corsair-Vengeance-240-Pin-Platfor...
-
Reply to Andrew Buck
m
0
l
Azfar Siddiqui
July 4, 2014 1:10:13 PM
Azfar Siddiqui
July 4, 2014 1:25:45 PM
jaraldo said:
Hehe, you are a bit eager no?
Both these games don't come out for awhile, so no benchmarks or even anything we can tell you about it.
The 660 can play watchdogs/bf4 reasonably, so I think it would be same for far cry 4/ BF Hardline in acceptable/good settings.
Lol yes i am because i wanna see if its worth for me to spend 250$ on upgrade or just spend 400$ on ps4
-
Reply to Azfar Siddiqui
m
0
l
jaraldo said:
Here's some benchmarks. As stated, about the same performance.http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-r7-265-revie...
next time you post benchmarks you should also make sure you post the specs of the machine they were run on,. no way will the 965 come close to these.
-
Reply to swifty_morgan
m
0
l
Azfar Siddiqui
July 4, 2014 11:40:59 PM
Azfar Siddiqui
July 4, 2014 11:50:10 PM
Azfar Siddiqui
July 5, 2014 9:33:27 AM
Related resources
- SolvedGTX 970 a good upgrade? Forum
- SolvedWould this upgrade be good? Forum
- SolvedR9 270x is this a good choice to upgrade to??? Forum
- SolvedPsu good enough for upgrade? Forum
- SolvedPlz help me is this AMD FX 6300 a good upgrade for my q6600 ? Forum
- SolvedGood idea to upgrade old PC's graphics card? Forum
- SolvedGpu upgrade on good ol lga775 system Forum
- SolvedGood upgrade from GTX 660? Forum
- SolvedIs this a good upgrade from a MSI 7770 1gb and will it work on my system? Forum
- SolvedGood upgrade from a 650ti Forum
- SolvedLooking for a good gpu upgrade Forum
- SolvedGood cpu upgrade? Forum
- SolvedIs a Xeon E3 processor a good choice for a gaming/editing rig my upgrade budget of $400? Forum
- Solvedis GIGABYTE GA-990XA-UD3 rev 3.0 AM3+ is a good mobo for upgrade ? Forum
- Solvedwhat case is good if i want to upgrade to water cooling in the future. Forum
- More resources
Read discussions in other Systems categories
!