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baldrat60

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I currently have a gtx 560 ti. Im looking to get a small upgrade to this so i can play warhammer 2 a bit better.

I cant afford much im talking about £60 max ideally less is there anything i could order that would give me a slight boost.

Ive seen the ebay cards for 30-40 from china but have also seen that they are in the majority fake. Im aware of this but do the advertised cards offer an improvement over what i have whether there fake or not?

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GTX-750Ti-2GB-128Bit-GDDR5-PC-Gaming-HD-Video-Graphics-Card-for-NVIDIA-GeForce-/401518333588?_trksid=p2385738.m4383.l4275.c10

https://www.ebay.co.uk/itm/GTX-960-4GB-GDDR5-128-Bit-PCI-Express-HDMI-VGA-Graphics-Card-For-NVIDIA-GeForce/332608074281?_trkparms=aid%3D555019%26algo%3DPL.BANDIT%26ao%3D1%26asc%3D20151005190705%26meid%3Dcc9e385848aa428e8264609fadab39a5%26pid%3D100506%26rk%3D1%26rkt%3D1%26%26itm%3D332608074281&_trksid=p2045573.c100506.m3226


 
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Came across this: https://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-warhammer-benchmarks-strike-fear-into-cpus/

The weakest CPU they benched there is the i3-4360, and the FX-4170 is supposedly slightly weaker.

CPUs tend to give the minimum frame rates you can run; I suspect it's not running that well at the moment. I saw a mention that a i7-6700k owner struggled with frame rates for it, and the game is heavily dependent upon a single core. The FX processors' single core performance was a weak point unfortunately.

The above benchmark shows there can be gains from a graphics card upgrade, but with the graphics card market as it is and some slight distrust of ebay sellers it makes it even more difficult.
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Obakasama

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You have two different questions going here.

The GTX 750 ti is marginally better than the GTX 560 ti. Hardly a worthwhile upgrade. The GTX 960 is better than the GTX 560 ti which would be a more worthwhile upgrade.

As for the advertised ones you linked.... The GTX 960 there suggests it has a VGA port which isn't part of Nvidia spec. That suggests it is a fake to me. Would the fake be better than what you already have? Will depend which graphics card it really is.

On an aside, I have my suspicions with Warhammer 2, depending what sort of performance you're getting, could be linked to the CPU.
 
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Came across this: https://www.pcgamer.com/total-war-warhammer-benchmarks-strike-fear-into-cpus/

The weakest CPU they benched there is the i3-4360, and the FX-4170 is supposedly slightly weaker.

CPUs tend to give the minimum frame rates you can run; I suspect it's not running that well at the moment. I saw a mention that a i7-6700k owner struggled with frame rates for it, and the game is heavily dependent upon a single core. The FX processors' single core performance was a weak point unfortunately.

The above benchmark shows there can be gains from a graphics card upgrade, but with the graphics card market as it is and some slight distrust of ebay sellers it makes it even more difficult.
 
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