xmarioscy

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Oct 23, 2012
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Hello,
Approximate Purchase Date:I will buy in 3th of november,not sure though , untill i find exactly parts

Budget Range: (250euros)

System Usage from Most to Least Important: (gaming)

Buying a monitor: No

Parts to Upgrade: (psu,gpu,CpuFanCooler)

Preferred Website(s) for Parts: (newegg,amazoon,and cnix[But i need to make sure that they ship to Europe,Cyprus])

Location: Europe, I live in Cyprus ,in Nicosia city

Overclocking: No

SLI or Crossfire: I don't know what that is

Monitor Resolution: ( 1680x1050, )

Additional Comments: (I just have motherboard : g43twins-fullhd and i don't know if it supports ddr5 graphic cards, because im thinking of buying 560 ti or 560 and it's ddr5)

And Most Importantly, because my psu is broken .. )

I have
-Geforce GTX 260 nvidia,
-G43twins-fullhd motherboard,
-Intel cpu fan[the 10dollar one]
-Cpu 2.33ghz quad core[I will not change it :p]
-Mushking 4GB Ram [Green line]
 
SLI/CF is using multiple video cards in parallel. Generally a bad idea unless you can't find a single GPU that is powerful enough.

VRAM version makes no difference to mobo support. If it has a PCIe x16 slot chances are it will work.

Thermaltake PSUs are crap, and US links aren't going to help him/her much.

The 7870 is significantly more powerful than the 660 and costs much the same.
 


Who said Thermaltake PSUs are crap? If you found one failed model , it doesn't mean all are going to fail. Besides there are models that have got very high ratings from hardwaresecrets and jonnyguru and the OEM is the same.
The 7870 is more powerful than the 660 in compute performance but not in gaming
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6276/nvidia-geforce-gtx-660-review-gk106-rounds-out-the-kepler-family/10
http://www.anandtech.com/show/6276/nvidia-geforce-gtx-660-review-gk106-rounds-out-the-kepler-family/8

@xmarioscy
the gpu will work on ur mobo
 
Let me rephrase that: Thermaltake PSUs aren't particularly good.

Yes, but both those you linked are nVidia-optimized games. Of course they'll work better on a GeForce GPU (within reason).

If you look at the average performance on Toms' review the 7870 soundly beats the 660 (the Anandtech one didn't have and average table I could find) :
AVG%20Perf%20HIGH.png
 

xmarioscy

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Oct 23, 2012
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So guys.. which spu i should take? and does 660 or 7850 or 560ti can be filled in my motherboard : g43twins-fullhd?and im thinking of buying a cheap power supply 212 plus or evo.. is it good?
 
The 212+ and 212Evo are CPU coolers. You don't need them at all if not OCing (stock cooleris fine), though they are pretty good for their price.

Cheap PSUs are a pretty bad idea. I'd be looking at an Antec, Corsair, Z/ZT/ZS OCZ, PCP&C, newer Rosewill, Seasonic, or XFX. At least 450W.

EDIT: your mobo has a PCIe x16 slot, so should work fine with any of those GPUs. If getting the 560Ti you'll want at least a 550W PSU.
 

xmarioscy

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yeah but i wanna buy it because i have an intel fan which is 10dollars , it's not good , at the start i bought the pc i had one gaming zalman one which was rly good and my pc wasn't getting hot ,untill i replaced this one and it started getting hot..so that's why i need new cpufan cooler... anyways... i want a lil cheaper graph card than gtx 660 and 7850,shall i get the 560 ti or 560 or something else that is almost same money with 560 but better?
 
sorry for late reply


On more closer inspection, it's only dirt showdown that takes a huge lead (since its amd gcn optimized) and the reason why avg game perf. percentage of 7870 is so high.
I wouldn't depend on the perf. of a single game and that too a racing game for graphics performance
This is a more general performance list:
http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/gpu_list.php



Still not good. If u told that there is no review on that particular model i suggested, i would have still agreed. Out of 66 reviews on thermaltake psu's from trusted sites, there is only one fail review, half of other reviews are recommended models, remaining are neutral reviews.



Better than that is the thermaltake tpx-575m since it has 48A on +12V rail compared to 46A of corsair. The +12V rail supplies power to most of the system.
 
Actually, I can't find a review of either of them. I don't like to recommend a PSU without a review unless it comes from a pretty trusted brand eg Corsair.

Maybe I should start adding thermaltake PSUs to my list of good brands. Still not convinced though.
 


Corsair is a good brand no doubt. Seasonic and CWT are mostly the OEMs of Corsair. And the thermaltake psu i suggested has CWT as its OEM.

@xmarioscy
Here is a list of gpu's u might want to look at in increasing price and performance order.
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/msi-video-card-r77702pmd1gd5oc
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-01gp31461kr
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-01gp43652kr
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/evga-video-card-01gp31561ar
http://pcpartpicker.com/part/xfx-video-card-fx785aznfc