Am I getting Bottlenecked...?

hassanJ97 · Aug 15, 2014

My Specs:
Intel Core 2 Duo E8400 @ 3.0 GHz
2Gb DDR2
250 GB HDD
255w PSU

I am planning to Buy a GPU, an MSI R7 250. But I wanted to know that will it get Bottlenecked.

If Yes then suggest me one that won't in the same Price Bracket.

prit87 · Aug 15, 2014

yes u may get some frame drops with your processor and ram .........download the razor game booster it will help you optimize the game performance.....

hassanJ97 · Aug 15, 2014

prit87 :

So then,
May I buy the MSI R7 250..?

prit87 · Aug 15, 2014

yea get the r7 250 its cheap yet very good performing card.....

TheBates · Aug 15, 2014

It depends what you are doing really. If you aren't doing many GPU bound tasks e.g. gaming, graphics editing etc. you won't get much more performance out of everyday computing tasks by simply adding a GPU aside from any applications that have been optimised to use CUDA/Compute cores.

But if you are looking into doing more GPU intensive stuff I would personally recommend a new PSU as 255W is fairly weak and you would only be looking into getting discrete graphics cards (GeForce 210 etc) which wouldn't be up to the task for gaming.

Bear in mind that you would likely be bottlenecking the GPU as well as motherboards that are compatible with most Core 2 series processors (Socket 775) are typically running on PCI-e 1.x so it would not be used it maximum potential but still functional.

Hope you found this helpful!

prit87 · Aug 15, 2014

if the motherboard has pci 1.0 that will reduce the performance of the card by hardly 4- 5 % ......a full upgrade is necessary because most of the system is outdated only part that could be salvaged is the hdd..

TheBates · Aug 15, 2014

prit87 :

I believe there is quite a sizeable gap in performance between PCI-e 1.x vs PCI-e 2.x. The figures you gave accurate in describing the difference of transfer speeds for PCI-e 2.x vs 3.x.

PCI-e 1.x: 2.5 GT/s (Giga Transfers Per Second)
PCI-e 2.x: 5 GT/s (Giga Transfers Per Second)

Quite a bit more than 4-5% which I'm sure you will agree.

prit87 · Aug 15, 2014

current gpu supports pci 3.0 but belive me there is a 5% performance difference its not that huge difference....

hassanJ97 · Aug 15, 2014

I have an OEM system from Dell
Named as Optiplex 760. so its hard to fit in any other PSU.

TheBates · Aug 15, 2014

I am familiar with these as we have them at work. I agree a new bigger power supply is pretty much out of the question. These come in two configurations as far as i'm aware which are the ultra-small form factor and the standard tower. We have discrete single slot GPU's in the tower but with the small form factor ones there is no PCI-e expansion so a dedicated GPU is out of the question.

hassanJ97 · Aug 15, 2014

prit87 :

I have an OEM system from Dell
Named as Optiplex 760. So I can hardly to fit in any other PSU.

Is there a solution to this..?

hassanJ97 · Aug 15, 2014

TheBates :

What can be done then..?

TheBates · Aug 15, 2014

hassanJ97 :

Well if you have a standard tower configuration then a discrete GPU could be what your looking for. With that PSU you need something very power efficient if you are thinking about getting a gaming class one, pretty much the only one I can think of at the moment is the GTX 750 which still gives respectable performance and was designed to work with OEM PSU's. However you may still need to check how much power is being pushed into the PCI-e rail (check dells website for this) to see whether it is enough to power it. If it isn't then something akin to a GT630 or AMD equivalent would suffice.

hassanJ97 · Aug 15, 2014

TheBates :

hassanJ97 :

Well if you have a standard tower configuration then a discrete GPU could be what your looking for. With that PSU you need something very power efficient if you are thinking about getting a gaming class one, pretty much the only one I can think of at the moment is the GTX 750 which still gives respectable performance and was designed to work with OEM PSU's. However you may still need to check how much power is being pushed into the PCI-e rail (check dells website for this) to see whether it is enough to power it. If it isn't then something akin to a GT630 or AMD equivalent would suffice.

I have the dekstop form factor, Is there a way to change the PSU..?

hassanJ97 · Aug 15, 2014

TheBates :

hassanJ97 :

Well if you have a standard tower configuration then a discrete GPU could be what your looking for. With that PSU you need something very power efficient if you are thinking about getting a gaming class one, pretty much the only one I can think of at the moment is the GTX 750 which still gives respectable performance and was designed to work with OEM PSU's. However you may still need to check how much power is being pushed into the PCI-e rail (check dells website for this) to see whether it is enough to power it. If it isn't then something akin to a GT630 or AMD equivalent would suffice.

I have the dekstop form factor, Is there a way to change the PSU..?

TheBates · Aug 15, 2014

hassanJ97 :

TheBates :

I have the dekstop form factor, Is there a way to change the PSU..?

Yes there is. But whether there is any compatible ones that are higher voltage that you can swap it with is a different matter as I believe Dell have a proprietary size for their PSU's. Well worth shopping around for though to see if there are any.

hassanJ97 · Aug 15, 2014

TheBates :

hassanJ97 :

Yes there is. But whether there is any compatible ones that are higher voltage that you can swap it with is a different matter as I believe Dell have a proprietary size for their PSU's. Well worth shopping around for though to see if there are any.

How about moving all my parts to a new tower Casing..?

TheBates · Aug 15, 2014

TheBates :

If that's in your budget and you can find a PSU with the right pin size for your motherboard then I don't see why that wouldn't work!

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