GTX 760 2GB Inquiry

[zeko]

Hello!
Is GTX 760 2gb worth these days, i have a ATI HD 5450?
I found a good deal.
If you can, please let me know.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Not sure if trolling but....

 

[zeko]

Not sure if trolling but....

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sooo, i guess it is worth it right?

 

[FreedomEclipse]

sooo, i guess it is worth it right?

yes. the 5450 at best is a HTPC card or something you throw into a VDU machine.

 

[zeko]

yes. the 5450 at best is a HTPC card or something you throw into a VDU machine.

thank you very much, only thing i could play is minecraft or maybe csgo with 20fps on 720p

 

[FreedomEclipse]

Counterstrike tends to be more CPU bound. So if you have a potato CPU - you will feel it more.

 

[zeko]

Counterstrike tends to be more CPU bound. So if you have a potato CPU - you will feel it more.

this is an old pc from 10 yrs ago. there were 2gb ram and only the old hdd, it was a boom for me bcs i used some vista laptop which was slow like cr// and before that i didnt have one
p.s the vista laptop was from 2008 i was 8 at the time and never used a pc before so thats how i became interested in pc-s

 

[Kursah]

@zeko updated the title for you.

 

[FreedomEclipse]

well good news is that DDR3 is SUPER CHEAP. There is even evidence of people even running a Q9550 C2Q with that same motherboard or XEON X5470

So if you can find one cheap and throw it in, it will probably help you as well. Just dont expect to be able to overclock at all because that board is a pretty budget one.

If you attached some heatsinks to the VRMs and got some airflow there, then you might be able to squeeze out a few hundred Mhz if thats what you want

 

[pavle]

1152 shaders and 96 texture units against 80/5 shaders and 8 TMUs - quite a potent upgrade as long as PSU is powerful enough.

 

[Nike_486DX]

To see if you found a good deal i suggest that u provide some additional info, like the price of the card, and if the seller is offering any kind of warranty and/or willing to test the card prior to the purchase. Nowadays the gpu market is doing... bad, so the amount of scams and inflated prices is kinda high. So if you find a deal that is too good to be true - just avoid it. BUT if its a sub-$100 offer and the seller agrees to test the card prior to the transaction, then go for it.

Some other things that i guess should be mentioned: You will probably need a better power supply (not sure, i suggest that you provide the exact model), and Pentium E5700 would be fine for older games (pre 2012-ish), but putting a non-S core 2 Quad or Xeon in that mobo with its basic vrm is a pretty bad idea. Most probably in a couple of months one of the mosfets will go boom and the 12v will go directly into the cpu, killing it. If you really need to run some modern titles on that machine i suggest that you get a quad Q9450S (s for reduced power) or something like that.