Is my Graphics card a bottleneck?

bortas014 · Mar 30, 2016

I bought the following computer from ACER recently:
http://www.acer.com/ac/en/AU/content/model/DT.B15SA.003

Specs:
Processor Model i5-6400
Processor Core Quad-core (4 Core)
Processor Speed 2.70 GHz
64-bit Processing Yes
Chipset Model H110 Express
Standard Memory 8 GB
Memory Technology DDR3 SDRAM
Graphics Controller Model GeForce GT 720
Graphics Memory Capacity Up to 2 GB
Graphics Memory Accessibility Dedicated
Maximum Power Supply Wattage 300 W

The performance in games has been a little underwhelming, it barely runs at 25fps in Assassins Creed IV at 800x600 resolution on Medium detail

I was wondering if the GeForce card is acting as a bottleneck, because the processor is an i5 gen 6 and I have used i5s in a laptop before with great gaming performace.
So is that likely? that the graphics card is the bottleneck? I was already intending to upgrade the graphics card soon after buying the computer anyway, I was thinking of a 2GB GeForce GTX 750 TI or a 2GB GTX 950, would one of these be a suitable card to run some modern games at 720p or 1080p on High or Ultra detail?

Thanks

maxalge · Mar 30, 2016

bortas014 :

I bought the following computer from ACER recently:
http://www.acer.com/ac/en/AU/content/model/DT.B15SA.003

Specs:
Processor Model i5-6400
Processor Core Quad-core (4 Core)
Processor Speed 2.70 GHz
64-bit Processing Yes
Chipset Model H110 Express
Standard Memory 8 GB
Memory Technology DDR3 SDRAM
Graphics Controller Model GeForce GT 720
Graphics Memory Capacity Up to 2 GB
Graphics Memory Accessibility Dedicated
Maximum Power Supply Wattage 300 W

The performance in games has been a little underwhelming, it barely runs at 25fps in Assassins Creed IV at 800x600 resolution on Medium detail

I was wondering if the GeForce card is acting as a bottleneck, because the processor is an i5 gen 6 and I have used i5s in a laptop before with great gaming performace.
So is that likely? that the graphics card is the bottleneck? I was already intending to upgrade the graphics card soon after buying the computer anyway, I was thinking of a 2GB GeForce GTX 750 TI or a 2GB GTX 950, would one of these be a suitable card to run some modern games at 720p or 1080p on High or Ultra detail?

Thanks

the gt 720 is not a gaming card,

the 950 is a med/high 1080p card

you want high/ultra 1080p then grab a gtx 970

you are going to need a new power supply for any of these cards though

azzazel_99 · Mar 30, 2016

That whole system isn't a gaming system buddy. The cpu is very slow, the video card is awful and you will FOR SURE need a bigger powersupply if you plan on upgrading your video card. I cant believe they would even put in a 300 watt power supply in this day and age. You will need at minimum a new power supply and video card if you want to game at all but that processor at 2.7ghz is gonna become the issue very soon in games if it isn't already.

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