- Aug 11, 2016
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Hello all first time to post on here, although I've browsed on here for a couple of years now. Back in 2012 I bought an Asus desktop with an AMD A10-5700 with 8gb of ram and a 1 tb hard drive with a 350 watt psu. It's been a great machine so far and use it mainly for everyday use and some gaming (civ 5, EU4, HOI4, Cities Skylines, Rome 2 TW and even MGS5).
It runs all those pretty decent at 720p mid to high settings. I was thinking about upgrading the GPU. I'm not really in the market to build a whole new PC as I've researched for getting the best out of discreet GPU's it's best to go with an I5, I3, or even one of AMD's older FX processors because of the l3 cache and the APU bottlenecking issues with higher end cards.
So to the point: I've been looking into the AMD Rx 460 and also the 470. Was wondering if it was worth it with the current rig I have to upgrade to one of those? If I go the 470 route I'll definitely have to upgrade the PSU to at least a 500W one for sure. Wondering if it'd be worth it to go that route or just settle for the 460, although it seems alot of 460 cards released so far have the 6 pin connector and I'm not even sure if my current PSU has one.
It runs all those pretty decent at 720p mid to high settings. I was thinking about upgrading the GPU. I'm not really in the market to build a whole new PC as I've researched for getting the best out of discreet GPU's it's best to go with an I5, I3, or even one of AMD's older FX processors because of the l3 cache and the APU bottlenecking issues with higher end cards.
So to the point: I've been looking into the AMD Rx 460 and also the 470. Was wondering if it was worth it with the current rig I have to upgrade to one of those? If I go the 470 route I'll definitely have to upgrade the PSU to at least a 500W one for sure. Wondering if it'd be worth it to go that route or just settle for the 460, although it seems alot of 460 cards released so far have the 6 pin connector and I'm not even sure if my current PSU has one.
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