Will This Bottleneck

lancher10 · Sep 8, 2014

I wanted to add a graphics card to make my pc be good for gaming and I wanted to know if I could put the gtx 750 ti (http://www.amazon.com/gp/offer-listing/B00002SVER/ref=dp_olp_used?ie=UTF8&condition=used&qid=1410227298&sr=8-4) into this pc:

Manufacturer: Acer
Model: Aspire M3400
Processor: AMD Athlon(tm) II X2 215 Processor 2.70 GHz
RAM: 4.00 GB
System Type: 64-bit Operating System
Graphics Card: ATI Radeon HD 425

The motherboard: http://www.amazon.com/Acer-Desktop-Motherboard-MB-SE109-002-MBSE109002/dp/B00I0EI5IC/ref=sr_1_3?ie=UTF8&qid=1408819018&sr=8-3&keywords=Aspire+M3400

Thanks guys.

clutchc · Sep 8, 2014

Your link took me to "Wario Land: Super Mario Land 3"

The short answer is yes. The dual core will bottleneck the card. But the GTX 750 Ti will be fine if you are talking single player gaming. There may be a little CPU bottleneck in games that are CPU bound. Most games are GPU bound, however.
But if you are gaming online on a busy 64 player server, the old dual core Athlon II will be a draw back that the card won't help.

More importantly, the new Maxwell equipped GTX 750/750 Ti needs a late MB BIOS to be recognized in many OEM PCs like yours. I doubt your old PC has any late BIOS versions available. You may want to play it safe and look for an older generation card.

lancher10 · Sep 9, 2014

clutchc :

Oh sorry I didn't realize that. But its on the 750 ti. Do you have an recommendations?

clutchc · Sep 9, 2014

The R7-260X or 265 is about the equivalent to the GTX 750 Ti. And may be a safer bet for the old BIOS to recognize the card.
The rough hierarchy of those cards is: R7-265 > GTX 750 Ti > R7-260X

lancher10 · Sep 9, 2014

clutchc :

Thanks.

Search

Will This Bottleneck

lancher10

Honorable

clutchc

clutchc

Titan

lancher10

Honorable

clutchc

Titan

lancher10

Honorable

TRENDING THREADS

Latest posts

Moderators online

Share this page