Should buy or not

[Bhav]

1. Which Power Supply do you have? (Be EXACT while naming the company and model)
Ans:I don't no

2. What is your budget?
Ans:7k

3. Which resolution will you game at?
Ans:1440*900

4. What are your current computer specifications?
Motherboard - asus m2n68 am +
Pross - AMD X2 240
ram - 4gb
HDD - 320


My friend want to buy new graphic card and he want to buy nvidia 460 should he buy it or not if any other card then plzzz tell and good power supply to handle the card

 

[Cilus]

1st of all at 7K you won't find GTX 460. 2ndly if you don't know what PSU you have then it is probably local cheap PSU. Better get the following things:-

FSP SAGA II 400W @ 1.9K
Gigabyte HD 7750 1 GB GDDR5 @ 6.2K

 

[doomgiver]

FSP SAGA II 400W @ 1.9K
Gigabyte HD 77510 1 GB GDDR5 @ 6.2K

^^ typo up there

hd6770 is available at nehru place for 6.7k

 

[saswat23]

Yup, he meant HD 7750 only.
But you can get SAGA-II 500W for 2.3k, then why get the SAGA-II 400W for 1.9k.

 

[Siddharth_1]

^^+1. Bhav you could use a software(ex. SIW) that could tell about PSU so that you can post the PSU capacity. If the PSU is good enough then you can save on the PSU by not buying a new one. The money saved can get you a GTX 550 ti or even better if you can extend your budget.

 

[saswat23]

How can a software tell about the PSU?

 

[Bilacorola]

It is really hard to give you an answer without knowing the PSU. Tell your friend to take a picture of his PSU and it would help a lot with the options we are trying to give.

 

[Tech_Wiz]

Yeah and considering his other system Spec I can bet on a Odessy or iball 250-300W PSU.

I would prefer HD7750 < HD6770 in Performance Now but will improve after Driver Updates + Its lighter on the PSU.

 

[Bhav]

thanx for the help GT 550 ti will work properly this motherboard or not

 

[avinandan012]

^ dont buy that. that's one overated low peerforming gpu.

better go for 7750 /7770

 

[thetechfreak]

thanx for the help GT 550 ti will work properly this motherboard or not

Avoid.Its not a good card. Better get a 7750@6.2k(appx)

 

[Siddharth_1]

thanx for the help GT 550 ti will work properly this motherboard or not

Get a GTX 550 ti. It has better performance than HD 7750.

And there are softwares available for getting each and every thing about the software, the hardware and currently install on a pc.
Get it here.
See it your self.

 

[thetechfreak]

Get a GTX 550 ti. It has better performance than HD 7750.

Lets see.

In benchmarks here-

Benchmark Results: Battlefield 3 : AMD Radeon HD 7770 And 7750 Review: Familiar Speed, Less Power

1) The HD7750 is slower by 0.6 frames in 1680x1050 resolution and even lesser in 0.16 frames in 1920x1080
2) Wont consider Crysis 2? Why? it uses Tessalation in such a way that it cripples the AMD counterparts not that the cards are actually that bad.
3)In Metro 2033, the 7750 performed better by 2 frames in 1680x1050 and same gap in HD resolution.
4) In 3d mark 11, HD7750 scores less 19 pts. The HD7770 Is a lot faster.
5) Lets not forget the HD7750 is a DX11.1 card and newer Gen.


edit: Go for the HD7750

 

[Siddharth_1]

^^yeah i was talking about that only. GTX 550 ti has little edge over HD 7750. There is no doubt that HD7750 is a DX11.1 card and newer Gen, but the mobo in the computer would not support dx11.1 and pci-e 3.0. The mobo supports pci-e 2.0 and will not utilize pci-e 3.0, so no use. Go for GTX 550 ti or just wait for kepler.

 

[vaibhav23]

At the price of 550ti, 6790 crushes it in every game
Another choice is to get a 7770
@OP please tell which PSU

 

[Siddharth_1]

HD 7770 will be surely better if he can afford.

 

[Cilus]

^^yeah i was talking about that only. GTX 550 ti has little edge over HD 7750. There is no doubt that HD7750 is a DX11.1 card and newer Gen, but the mobo in the computer would not support dx11.1 and pci-e 3.0. The mobo supports pci-e 2.0 and will not utilize pci-e 3.0, so no use. Go for GTX 550 ti or just wait for kepler.

What the hell is mobo supporting DirectX 11.1?? If your GPU has the support for it and the game has it implemented, you can enjoy it. No compatibility issues with the motherboard. There is no need for PCI-E 3.0 for the lower mid-range cards. In fact the highest end card Hd 7970 only offers 4% performance advantage when used in a PCI-E 3.0 motherboard.

GTS 550 is consumes power like a HD 6870 and performs like a HD 6770 + 3 FPS max. No point of getting that. HD 7770 the way to go.

But 1st of all, OP should change his PSU before buying any of the discussed cards.

 

[coderunknown]

thanx for the help GT 550 ti will work properly this motherboard or not

^^yeah i was talking about that only. GTX 550 ti has little edge over HD 7750. There is no doubt that HD7750 is a DX11.1 card and newer Gen, but the mobo in the computer would not support dx11.1 and pci-e 3.0. The mobo supports pci-e 2.0 and will not utilize pci-e 3.0, so no use. Go for GTX 550 ti or just wait for kepler.

both of you, read stickies and have your basics corrected first.

 

[topgear]

some old nforce chipset based mobos have compatibility issue with pci-e 2.1 cards - so it would be better if Op updates his mobo bios to the latest version available.

 

[Siddharth_1]

What the hell is mobo supporting DirectX 11.1?? If your GPU has the support for it and the game has it implemented, you can enjoy it. No compatibility issues with the motherboard. There is no need for PCI-E 3.0 for the lower mid-range cards. In fact the highest end card Hd 7970 only offers 4% performance advantage when used in a PCI-E 3.0 motherboard.

GTS 550 is consumes power like a HD 6870 and performs like a HD 6770 + 3 FPS max. No point of getting that. HD 7770 the way to go.

But 1st of all, OP should change his PSU before buying any of the discussed cards.

If you read my reply carefully i only said that PCI-E 3.0 will not be supported, and so there is no use. I have mentioned only PCI-E 3.0 in the last line. I never said the card would never work or something like that. The thing is that it is better to use a PCI-E 2.0 GPU with a PCI-E 2.0 supported board the GPU has the little better performance than a PCI-E 3.0 GPU of the same price. But yes this is also true that HD 7750 will have DX 11.1 and would be more future proof.