Upgrading Graphic card with PSU

Robertksam

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My 5 years old build
18"5 dell lcd monitor (sold)
Motherboard Intel Dh61ww
processor i3 2100
1Tb Toshiba Sata HDD
4Gb Ddr3 RAM 1333fsb
graphic card 9500gt 1gb ddr2
PSU 450watt astrum

I know the graphic card selection is pretty much weird and psu absolutely careless here. but that was 6 years back.
forgive me but I trusted my average IT adviser who ran his IT hardware shop and never heard of corsair in the small town.

Recently purchased
24" Full samsung HD led
additional 4gb ddr3 1600 fsb RAM
Now,
I am confused with the PSU and Graphic card.

I was thinking of
GT 730 2gb ddr5 card,
with
Cooler Master Thunder 450W PSU.

I want to be safe for at least 3-5 years(considering I don't bottleneck my card or my processor, and utilize them to their core and not fry them with the cheapo psu on low to medium usage, have room temp above 40 in summers and voltage issues as well sometimes, have a Inverter and a 600VA UPS supply.)

I have another combination in my mind, but I am feeling it would be an overkill for the i3 2100.

Geforce Gtx 750ti 2 Gb Gddr5
Corsair VS 650 SMPS. I really don't feel the need, 730 should handle medium settings on hd or qhd and 650watts psu, will it be ever utilized on this configuration? I am not going above 750ti, cause even this I am not sure that I would really need it. and what about 2GB, I have read these graphic cards won't utilize more than 1gb of the memory. just a gimmick?

as I would hardly be able to test them to there limit, considering I have stopped playing games, just my 5 years old son took over this desktop.

but lets say if I choose 450watts now, it will be useless for the next update?(maybe an i5 or i7 in future)

I at least need here one window to be open for my next upgrade so suggest me a graphic card that would be enough for a 450watts psu or I should I go a little further, if ever the need arise, I would be ready for it.

Thank you
 

Robertksam

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Apr 17, 2016
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I went over to my local market yesterday night, found 2 good company PSU,
one was ocz 650w with 85 % efficiency(according to the 60 USD tag and the dealer. the other one was Antec BP450S, 550 and 650 with 83% efficiency)
other than that all I found were local made. I Couldn't find much info about this series and since there were no VP series and kids getting up my nerves. I went with Antec BP450S, (I was feeling at least 550watts, but the guys there said 450watts is more than enough for my build and 650watts would never be needed, just waste of money) after a lot of convincing from him and showing his trust on his knowledge I got it installed today on my PC, it cost 32 USD(My fixed budget for PSU was 60 USD as I was aiming for 650watts)
was little bit skeptical about going with 450watts, but after installing this PSU, I felt the difference, very silent, no noise at all, much better power cables than my previous cheap one, although other wires not looked so premium but they are strong, that's what I got in my local market. not bad, I would say not the best either.
tested it's performance today with 112 F Room temperature, my kid playing saints row the third, resident evil 5, nfs hot pursuit, for over 3 hours long continuous along with me and the PSU worked nicely, at the highest with a geforce 210, that was lying around at my relative home.(my 9500gt didn't had a HDMI or higher dx for the experiment, PSU took all with such an ease and 210 was a pain in the butt).
So, I feel it's working fine. No power issues as for now. It's got 3 years replacement guaranteed, So, I will put it to great tests with my older gpu and see if they get burnt or not! :D

Now the last thing that is left for me is the GPU. I searched the whole market, but all I found there was
a load of crap geforce 210, HD 5450.
and newer geforce 710 craps
geforce 730 2gb ddr5 64bit
geforce 740 4gb dd3 128bit

seeing the 210 and 9500gt performance on my system, I don't think any of these gpu would make me happy anymore.
Now my option is to import a good GPU from a person who can from other place. since I saved some bucks from my PSU budget, and almost all other upgrades completed now.

I am confused whether even a 750ti 2gb ddr5 will be able to perform on 1920x1080 res, with this build at a decent 60fps? or it would even hit above 40fps on any newer games, or even on resident evil 5 for an example. I can't settle for anything less than 1600x1200 on the new HD TV.

the shop representative advised me AMD r7 series, which are better in performance than the nvidia. but would they be suitable for my build here? and not get bottleneck by my i3 processor? I don't want to overload anything here, and don't want to loosen up the processor, just the right mix.

as the GPU would be my last investment on this i3 build, I want to max it out now with the GPU. not going for a processor or motherboard upgrade for the next 2 years atleast. as I have already spent enough this month (around 250+ USD for the HD TV, PSU and RAM and keeping 200 USD for the GPU, total 400+ budget! just for the Full HD jump on my monitor.

Thank you for the advises though, really appreciate your helping in my problem.