Noob Question - Graphics Card Installation

[flaviosilva09]

Hello,

I was thinking in buying a GTX 550ti for my ECS P35T-A motherBoard. Will it fit and work properly?
My Psu is LC6600GP2.

Do you sugest other graphic card?

Thanks

 

[flaviosilva09]

Whats wrong with 550Ti?

Heres a pic of the PSU: https://www.siewert-kau.de/en/sk/products/2018

About the motherBoard, it has a PciEx16, but its not 2.0, anything wrong with that?

 

[GreenDutchAlien]

GTX 460 is pretty much faster.

 

[flaviosilva09]

No problem with that being a 2.0 pciEx16 , and my motherboard being a "normal" PciEx16

 

[akopp21]

PCI Express is backwards compatible, it won't be a problem.

 

[flaviosilva09]

Thanks for your help, but really, is the 460 better then the 550ti?

 

[GreenDutchAlien]

No, i like to lie. Just google some benchmarks, i'm to lazy right now.

 

[GreenDutchAlien]

And no, pcie is not ALLWAYS backwards compatible. I very few cases there are problems. It probably will work, but there's no guarantee.

 

[flaviosilva09]

i checked this website: http://www.hwcompare.com/9692/geforce-gtx-460-vs-geforce-gtx-550-ti/

 

[flaviosilva09]

And the one i was thinking about buying was http://www.pixmania.com/pt/pt/10092075/art/pny/geforce-gtx-550-ti-xlr8-o.html i think it is overclocked a bit.

 

[GreenDutchAlien]

I think you looked at the 768 mb version, look at this ; http://www.hwcompare.com/9691/geforce-gtx-460-1gb-vs-geforce-gtx-550-ti/

You can overclock a 460 also. A stock 460 is faster than a stock 550, and an oc 460 is faster than an oc 550. But, it's your money . . .

 

[flaviosilva09]

That why im here, to get your opinions, what about the core,shader and memory speed? isnt that important?

 

[GreenDutchAlien]

Not only, more important i believe are the number of stream processors, cuda cores, memory bus, bandwith, card processor architecture and so. Not complete sure don't know everything from that, what i do know is that the 550 is a rebranded 450 with better powermanagement and higher clock settings ( i believe ) and well the 460 is above that and also the 460 is designed as a gaming processor while the 550 is not.

 

[Djentleman]

Gtx 460 all the way.

 

[flaviosilva09]

Thanks guys, i changed my mind, i'll star looking for a 460 instead of the 550, the PSU is 660W, i think it is enough.
About the PciEx-16, mine is "normal", u guys think it is ok?

 

[flaviosilva09]

So it wont work? Sorry couldnt find the right meaning of bottleneck..

 

[flaviosilva09]

Thank you, didnt know that expression. So it will run, but not at full potential, is that "lost" noticeable?I mean i think my actual 9800GT XFX is a PCI-E 2.0.
Sorry to bother you guys, just trying to figure out the diferences between those 2 slots.

 

[flaviosilva09]

Allright, thanks guys, i guess i'll start looking for a gtx460, although i cant seem to find them in portuguese stores.