Graphics Upgrade more of a Downgrade?

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Hello guys,

About a year ago, I was running an ASUS ENGT240 Graphics card with 1GB DDR3. I decided to upgrade to a new card, as I thought I could do better on graphics in my games (I primarily play League of Legends, which is not incredibly CPU intensive). I bought an MSI N630GT with 4GB GDDR3, thinking it would be better. I popped it in and installed the drivers, but didn't really get the FPS increase I was hoping for (and eventually realized I was doing worse). With the newer card I was getting down to 10 fps during demanding points in the game, and about 40 fps resting. I decided to try putting in my old card to see what would happen. It now runs at about 70 fps resting and drops to around 25 during demanding points. My question is: shouldn't this new Graphics card be more powerful (newer GPU and more dedicated memory)? If so, what could be causing the problem? (I currently have the old ENGT240 in, but I can switch back and forth if I need to try things out). Thanks for Any Help, and here are my other specs:

Motherboard : Abit IP35 Pro
Power Supply: Not sure on brand/model, but it's 550W
Processor: Intel Core 2 Quad CPU Q6600 @ 2.40GHz
 
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Seeing as it has 4GB VRAM, that tells me it's the version based on the GF108 chip, so the performance you're seeing is not surprising sadly. The particular 630 you have is a rebadge of the old 430 (not the 440, that was clocked higher), and the 430 only came out a year after the 240 you already have, so the performance you're seeing sounds about right.

You have to be careful with graphics cards, and be aware that just because the first number is higher, and it's part of a newer series (in this case the 600 series), that it is not automatically better than the cards things that came before it. This is especially true at the low end, where the manufacturers get a little sneaky. I'd agree with fudoka711 above; if it's possible, return...
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For the most part V-RAM wont play a part in your graphics card performance when we're talking about league of legends on a 1080p monitor. You should check some benchmark tests for both cards and see which one has better scores overall, never rely purely on "this one has more vram" as that is a very small part of a graphics cards performance
 
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The GT240 and GT630 are basically the same card, just different generations. In fact, I think the GT630 is supposed to be a little weaker. The amount of vram above 1gb for either card has no impact on its performance. Neither card can run anything well enough at more than 1080p resolution (unless its a flash game or movie).

If you look here: http://www.anandtech.com/bench/product/611?vs=610 and compare the GT240 to the GT440, it shows that the 240 is actually better or equal to the 440 in almost every game and almost every resolution. The GT440 is also supposed to be the same level of card as the GT630, so it would make sense that the 240 is performing better than the 630.

Are you able to return your new gt630 still? If so, what is your budget? I would recommend getting an AMD Radeon HD HD7770, AMD R7 260, or Geforce GTX 750 (or the 750ti).

EDIT: Actually the comparison site I gave used the GDDR5 version of the gt240, not the DDR3 one. Regardless, there shouldn't be that big of a difference between the cards.
 
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Seeing as it has 4GB VRAM, that tells me it's the version based on the GF108 chip, so the performance you're seeing is not surprising sadly. The particular 630 you have is a rebadge of the old 430 (not the 440, that was clocked higher), and the 430 only came out a year after the 240 you already have, so the performance you're seeing sounds about right.

You have to be careful with graphics cards, and be aware that just because the first number is higher, and it's part of a newer series (in this case the 600 series), that it is not automatically better than the cards things that came before it. This is especially true at the low end, where the manufacturers get a little sneaky. I'd agree with fudoka711 above; if it's possible, return the 630.
 
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The first paragraph is valuable information and I couldn't agree more with the second paragraph.
 
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