Does upgrading my Graphic Card worth when I still use my i5 1st gen ?

cenkimren · Dec 10, 2017

Hello all,

I've a brief question. I'm not having too much time to play some games but when I can, my computer doesn't allows me. I want to do a small upgrade without spending too much. However I'm not certain if I only change my graphic card (currently ATI HD 6890) to something new, I can get a great performance on games. My current specs are:
- ASUS P7P55 LX Motherboard
- 8GB 1866mb HyperX (I'm not sure about the brand but must be this) Rams
- Intel i5 1st gen 760 2.8 GHZ

Thanks in advance for your valuable comments.

dark_globe · Dec 10, 2017

i would not recommend buying anything more powerful than gtx 1050 Ti
more expensive and more powerful cards would just be the waste of money since CPU would be a bottleneck .

or you can look for second hand: gtx 960 or radeon 380 ...
what power supply do you have ?

The Paladin · Dec 10, 2017

Your CPU is going to be a problem, you can upgrade the video card, since the HD 68xx series video card needs a PSU of 500W and 2x 6+2 PCie Connectors. Your could do two things; one being a patch and in the end pointlessly waste of money but would patch you up for a certain amount of time. (not all gamers have the same need) you could get yourself a cheap I7-880 or 870 or 860 CPU, and upgrade that to its last possible speed, it will relieve the bottlenecking your I5 is causing. Then you could consider a GTX 750Ti / RX 470 or a GTX 1050 TI /RX 480.

The I7-880 is about 150$
The I7-870 is about 60-80$
The I7-860 is about seemingly any where from 40 to 90$

Why I mentioned in the long run should be considered as wasteful unless you remain with the system for a few more years

what games are you playing, unable to play and what is your budget ?

mistaken · Dec 10, 2017

I have almost your exact set up, I upgraded to a gtx 1050ti about a 4 months ago, because i wanted to start GPU mining. it made a huge difference.

THEN i added a gtx 1060 6gb, and it made a huge difference. i could not run GTA V, Fall out 4 or No Mans Sky even on the 1050. now i can run medium-low settings on all of those games, and they are playable (~30 fps)

I would love to be able to upgrade my whole system, but in 4 months the graphics cards have paid for themselves, no other component can do that.

regaurds

DSzymborski · Dec 10, 2017

Could you double-check your GPU? Never heard of a Radeon 6890. It makes a difference to know which digit(s) are wrong - if you have a 6870, a 1050ti is a major upgrade, 6990, it's much less so.

mistaken · Dec 10, 2017

DSzymborski :

https://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814126172 is $160

DSzymborski · Dec 10, 2017

mistaken :

As in the one you currently have.

dontlistentome · Dec 10, 2017

It's important to name the games you want to play, because some games might be essentially unplayable with that CPU anyways. Also it's helpful if you would say what's "great performance" to you. To one person 'great performance' might mean 60fps minimum at high settings, to another person 'great performance' might mean 30fps average at low settings since they are happy to just play the game.

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