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hello guys, i am searching for a midrange card to go with my i3 2120. I was thinking something along a GTX 750 a r7 260x or a 560ti, not sure if its worth to get such an old card tho. (this is kinda of my price range i dont live on the USA so prices are way different here), but i am not sure on what would be the best best.

My idea would be to be able to play most modern games on 1080p with around medium settings, i dont care about maxing anything, i just want to be able to play modern titles on a budget.

Upgrading other components is not an option so please dont tell me to do so.

Thanks for your time.
 
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Name change? The Longer of the two cards is clocked slightly faster that the shorter card, but it requires a 6 pin PCIe power cable. Either will play nicely at 1080p resolution with near max settings in most games with the i3 processor.
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Damn, ment to pick reply and chose best answer, sorry, new to the forum.

I have a 600W PSU with two 18A lines on the 12V Rail, i cant remember the model, but it handeled a 7870 DirectCUII for like a year.

 
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A quick search made me see a Zotac 750Ti OC, just a bit more expensive than a EVGA 750. Is the ti version worth the extra money? (around 30 dollars)

Also, i see you are a mod, any chance you can remove the best answer i accidentaly clicked?
 
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Thanks! such confusing buttons lol.

Is there any real difference between going for the EVGA vs the Zotac version? there is a really big difference in price between both, i can almost buy a Zotac 750ti with what an EVGA 750 costs
 
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You'd have to compare the card's clock speeds and memory speeds to see if there is any performance difference. Evga is a bit better name than Zotac, but both are good. Can you link me to the cards? They may be different than here in the US.
 
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This is the Zotac 750ti OC version (around $165)
http://www.as-informatica.com/producto.php?id=546

Zotac 750ti (non OC) (around $146)
http://www.gameron.com.ar/index.php?id_product=237&controller=product&id_lang=1

EVGA 750ti superclock: (cant find exact prices yet but around $30 to $40 more than the Zotac)
Base Clock: 1176 MHz
Boost Clock: 1255 MHz
Memory Clock: 5400 MHz Effective
CUDA Cores: 640
2048MB GDDR5 128bit Memory


i might walk and find better prices, i know a few places but i would have to go and ask, this is just off the internet.

Would the 750ti OC be the better pick? does the name change much? or its just a branding thing?
 
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Name change? The Longer of the two cards is clocked slightly faster that the shorter card, but it requires a 6 pin PCIe power cable. Either will play nicely at 1080p resolution with near max settings in most games with the i3 processor.
 
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That card was on my main pc, i sold it for a 7970 now. I also upgraded the PSU on that pc.
Now that is started to build a secondary pc for my little brother with some spare parts i had home i am reusing that old PSU with some other components that were previously on my main pc until I upgraded them.

This weekend i think i will go and buy a 750Ti, whatever version i find cheaper, i havent seen much difference in performance on online benchs between the different versions of it.
 
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A PSU with only 2 x 18A (+12V) rails is not anywhere close to a real 600W PSU. That is the same +12V rating my Seasonic 300W TFX PSU has in my HTPC: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?gclid=CK7Mt_uNqMACFSgV7Aod8nkApw&Item=N82E16817151090&nm_mc=KNC-GoogleAdwords&cm_mmc=KNC-GoogleAdwords-_-pla-_-Power+Supplies-_-N82E16817151090&ef_id=U@FajAAAAfSaLYyw:20140823001701:s
Good enough for any GTX 750 Ti, but you were living on borrowed time if you ran a 175W HD 7870 on it. I'm surprised it even had the 2 x 6 pin connectors required for the card.
 
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I guess some sellers like to take advantage of ignorance, at the time i bought that I didnt know much about pcs, since it was my first build. Later i realized the PSU was bad and thats why I upgraded to some real stuff, but i never realized it was THAT bad.
I found the box and the PSU was a CoolerMaster Extreme Power Plus, took some time to google it, didnt read pretty things lol.
 
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