GPU upgrade from 5670

deet27 · Aug 28, 2014

I was going to upgrade my daughter's Pc a few months ago and get a GT620 or GT630 Graphics card (due to the 250w PSU) but never got around to it. Now Sims 4 is about to be released I think its about time.

Spec
AMD Athlon 64 4000+
Ram 2GB
250W PSU
GPU X700 Pro

I would like to upgrade to a R7 240 (£33) and am confused if it will run correctly. Looking at the System Requirements.

http://simswiki.info/wiki.php?title=Sims_4:System_Requirements

What do you think?

deet27 · Sep 2, 2014

I have decided to put the GPU from my current computer a Radeon 5670 in my daughters computer and Upgrade the PSU to a Corsair CXM 430W http://goo.gl/bWeNat

I will now need to replace my GPU and am unsure what would be a good upgrade for me would be for about £60-£80?

Spec
AMD Phenom II x4 3.20Ghz
Asus M5A78L Montherboard
Ram 4GB
2x 200Gb Hard Drives (prob will also be upgrading soon)
PSU OCZ Modxstream 500W http://goo.gl/up1jla
2x 24" Aoc Monitors (1920x1080)

deet27 · Sep 3, 2014

Am i correct in assuming the following?

R7 240 would be about the same performace as my 5670
R7 250 would be a slight improvement over my 5670
R7 260x would be a Good/Very good improvement increase over my 5670 http://goo.gl/CGU2ew £80

oxiide · Sep 3, 2014

deet27 :

The R7 240 is actually a bit slower than the 5670;
The R7 250 is a bit faster than the 5670 (its on the edge of being a meaningful upgrade);
and yeah, the 260X is a pretty big jump. Unfortunately its a 115 W card and I'm not sure I'd entrust a (presumably aging) 250 W PSU to it.

I'm drawing most of these parallels from this guide:
http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/gaming-graphics-card-review,3107-7.html

Note that they recommend upgrading if the new card is at least three tiers above the old one to get enough of an improvement to justify the cost.

deet27 · Sep 3, 2014

Many Thanks for your reply, The 250w PSU is in my daughters computer which i will be upgrading to a Corsair CXM 430W so that my 5670 will fit ok.

I was looking at the link and got myself abit confused. As you say 3 tiers to justify the cost of an upgrade.

When i was looking at the chart a 4 Tier upgrade would of been R7 250 (£60 ish) and when you look at the benchmarks for that card it did not seem to be much in it, then there seemed to be a good jump in performance to the R7 260x. (£80ish)

5670 to R7 250 is 4 Tiers
5670 to R7 250x is 5 Tiers (£60)
5670 to R7 260 is 6 Tiers
5670 to R7 260x is 7 Tiers (£80 ish)
5670 to R7 265 is 9 Tiers ( Availabliiy is very poor and seems to be about£110)
5670 to R9 270 is 10 Tiers £120+

I was worried that I would have to go upto a R9 270 to see a significant improvement in performance @£120+

As you say the R7 260x is a pretty big jump,(thats what i wanted to hear)

Thanks again for taking the time to reply

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