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Replace, Crossfire or Scrap ?

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September 26, 2014 10:41:49 PM

Hi I bought a ready made PC from a company online recently and I'm very disappointed with its performance. I was hoping someone could help me figure out what to do as even on quite low spec games I'm low fps. My 3Dmark11 score at the moment is P1619.

Gigabyte GA-78LMT/USB3 (AMD 760G)
AMD FX 4300 (4 x 3.8 GHZ - Turbo 4 x 4.0 GHZ)
4 GB 1333MHz (1x4GB) - (DDR3)
AMD Radeon R7 240 - 2 GB - (XFX) - Silent - (PCI-E)

a) I don't mind spending a load on a top end GFX card to upgrade but would this be limited by the other components?

b) Or is it possible with my specs to run two of these GFX cards at once in crossfire? (If that can even happen on my rig?)

c) Is it really a just a heap of junk and should I consider scrapping it and getting a refund ?

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September 26, 2014 10:54:32 PM

it's not a pc made for gaming, thats for sure, but what do you need the PC to do
also, the gtx 750 ti isnt realy a gaming card like rockie said. it will ahndle gamas at medium, maybe high settings. but with all the new games comming, those it wont run higher then medium settings.
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September 26, 2014 11:02:12 PM

tsuneo6 said:
it's not a pc made for gaming, thats for sure, but what do you need the PC to do
also, the gtx 750 ti isnt realy a gaming card like rockie said. it will ahndle gamas at medium, maybe high settings. but with all the new games comming, those it wont run higher then medium settings.


It is a gaming card . if he wants everything on Ultra he will need GTX 970 but then he will need a new rig - CPU / GPU /RAM . Getting GTX 750 ti he will get a boost of 4x !

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September 26, 2014 11:15:51 PM

That CPU is likely to bottleneck any decent graphics card.
Not sure what I'd suggest, maybe refund what you can and build an Intel based PC with an i5 and a GTX 970.
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September 26, 2014 11:22:55 PM

Alex Kelly said:
That CPU is likely to bottleneck any decent graphics card.
Not sure what I'd suggest, maybe refund what you can and build an Intel based PC with an i5 and a GTX 970.


Give it a try . GTX 750 ti is only $ 129 and he WILL play games . FX 4300 is not so bad !

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September 26, 2014 11:32:16 PM

+1 to Alex Kelly suggestion, try to get a refund and go with a new pc with a i5 cpu and the best GPU your budget allows you to get.
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September 26, 2014 11:33:00 PM

Thanks guys really fast and helpful I appreciate it.

I'm happy playing everything on medium as long as long as there's 0 fps lag.

I'm going to request a full return so I can start from scratch, failing that though I'll replace the current one with the GTX 750 ti, I assume this rig will now be OK to run modern games on medium without too much fps lag?



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