Upgrade worth it?

[jkins]

Hi, just wondering if anyone could tell me about how much of a performance boost I would see from upgrading my vid card.

I'm looking to upgrade from a Geforce 9600gt 512mb to a GTX 460 768mb, this one in particular:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814127519

My system specs are:

AMD Phenom II X4 3.4

8gb DDR3 ram

1TB HD

17 inch monitor

Would I see at least a 50% increase in performance by upgrading?


P.S. This was my first system build and everyone here has been extremely helpful, I thank you all

 

[mrjericho1991]

For a 17Inch monitor,i would not buy gtx 460 as long as you are not upgrading your monitor this is the way to go:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102898&cm_re=hd_5770-_-14-102-898-_-Product
and yes it would be more than 50%performance increase with both of these.but hd 5770 is my recommendation.

 

[RickyT23]

Yes you will get a massive performance increase. At the moment your 9600GT is bottlenecking your PhenomII. A GTX 460 768 will bench Crysis Warhead on Enthusiast settings with 4xAntiAliasing in 1920x1080 at around about 22-25 FPS (I know this because I built a computer with one and a Core i3 540 CPU. Thegame benched 24fps, and overclocking the card it benched 25.5fps.

Now the frame-rates arent massive, but if you tweak the settings slightly you will easily achieve 30fps. So on a smaller monitor you will be flying!

You can easily achieve a 20% overclock with the GTX 460 too. Even at stock speeds it is faster than the 5770 in a lot of benchmarks, and it has PhysX!

 

[residentdean]

I would go a little bit more expensive. I would get a raedon 6870 because It's about seventy dollars more and it has awesome scailing in games. I think that if you go with a gtx 460 you should get the evga superclocked 1 gb card because you will see much better performance than that card you posted. Check out theese cards! http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130596. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814161349&cm_re=raedon_6870-_-14-161-349-_-Product. Make you upgrade worth it spend a little more!

 

[RickyT23]

The Radeon 6 series, and the GTX 4 and 5 series all have excellent scaling in SLI/Crossfire mode. The reason I used a GTX 460 768 for my freinds build was because it had the best value for money £117! Best bang for the buck by far that day.

 

[Kkkk1]

If you could afford another 70 dollars on top of a GTX 460, have you considered a GTX 470? You are certainly within hitting distance of a 470.

 

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[residentdean]

a gtx 470 uses a ton of power and get's very hot. I would get either the nvidia 5 series or the 460. The Raedon 6850 Is a great steal @ about the same price as the 460 and it has 1 gb of ram.

 

[iceclock]

if u want get the gtx 560 ti, uses less power than the gtx 470 , heats less and is a great buy, cant go wrong with that or a 6870 for under 230$