upgrading need little help

battleoverdrive · Jan 6, 2017

i'm still new to pcs and all that but i've been wanting to upgrade my graphics card to a Radeon™ RX 480 and was wondering would it be compatible with my msi z97 gaming 3 if not any suggestions for motherboard.

Zerk2012 · Jan 6, 2017

With your board yes you must aslo have a adequate power supply.

battleoverdrive · Jan 7, 2017

i got a Raidmax RX-850AE would that be good?

Zerk2012 · Jan 7, 2017

Fairly low quality power supply but should power a 480.

Chase_20 · Jan 7, 2017

would go with NVIDIA graphics card as they are typically half the cost of ATI , you can even buy MSI branded Nvidia Graphics card, MSI , EVGA, Nvidia itself, all good branding.

Zerk2012 · Jan 7, 2017

Chase_20 :

100% not true.
MSI RX 480 8GB the price is about the same as a GTX 1060 6GB with about the same performance. Uses about 30 more watts of power than a 1060.
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?item=N82E16814137023

Chase_20 · Jan 7, 2017

lets look at the whole chart instead of your sample demonstration
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html
Nvidia has the top 9 spots for GPU's , ATI makes one mark at the 10th best value high end cpu then is not seen again until #17 & #18. Hmm there are two main manufacturers for GPU's I wonder who is sitting in slots 1-9 and 11-16, must be Nvidia ! stop being a weasel and isolating one card pick

Chase_20 · Jan 7, 2017

heres a better chart ranking gpu's by value
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_value.html
Geforce is mentioned 26 times in this chart, and is at the top of the chart
radeon is mentioned 19 times and the highest position it holds is #3 in the chart

battleoverdrive · Jan 7, 2017

what would be a better/cheap power supply for the 480? please and thanks for all the help

Zerk2012 · Jan 8, 2017

Chase_20 :

You have very little real world knowledge so I write off any comment you make.
Yes you can spend 600 bucks and get a get 1080 and crush anything AMD makes but that has nothing to do with this post were talking about a 250 buck video card. I don't really care about any other card that has nothing to do with this post or even synthetic benchmarks.
RX 480 VS GTX 1060 both win some and lose some you should get off the band wagon.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NMM5UFFSrSk
ATI Don't make video cards anymore.

Zerk2012 · Jan 8, 2017

battleoverdrive :

Your power supply should function if your going to buy a new one then get a good one.
http://pcpartpicker.com/product/DPCwrH/seasonic-power-supply-ssr550rm

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