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Is there is better Gpu than GTX960 for 500w psu with single PCI 6 pin connector?

hello, I am looking to help a friend build a PC but i dont know which graphics card to choose. the budget is around the price of this three graphics cards gtx960 4gb, gtx970 4gb(3,5gb) and gtx1060 3gb. she is planning to be playing LOL and GTA V and other games at 1080p. tnx in advance for the help

Hello, I bought a second GTX 960 Asus Strix 2GB card off someone from offerup for 45$. I bought it thinking it was 4GB, in fact, he told me it was, my plan was SLI so I could boost my frames for a bit. However, windows does not give you an option to SLI cards with different VRAM. is it possible at all to pull it off? at all custom BIOS anything. any help is appreciated. :)

Hey, so the other day I cleaned up my PC. With that, I decided to replace the thermo-paste on the CPU and the GPU (GPU first time since 2015 - CPU 4th reapply since 2015). I decided to use liquid with alcohol (certain cleaning cologne) that dries up and evoporates like instantly, wich I always used to clean the old thermo-paste on the CPU. Now this clean-up, for the first time I cleaned up the thermo-paste and the board of the GPU. I might have overdone it with the GPU board resulting in short circuit. But the fan of the GPU spins so I'm assuming it works. Putting everything back together, the PC didn't boot up. Like it kept rebooting and crashing about 2 seconds after each boot. After Googling and Youtube Videos, I tryed playing with the RAMs and their slots. I played with the small battery, the power button getting the MOBO completely without circuit. HDMI-cable & monitor are in working condition and have been tested. Result is, now the PC follows this trajectory: Boot > Crashes in 2 seconds > Reboot > Fans run, keyboard & mouse have power but no display. So I have been googling and used youtube but with no result. I mean I'm at the point of rebuilding a new pc, but it needs to wait. Added Hardware in 2017: SSD 850 EVO 500GB trough using the sata cables from the optic drive (CD-ROM) Game PC - Intel Z97 configurator Case Cooler Master K380 - € 52,00 Case lighting None Case Fans Standard fans Promotion Free Mousepad CPU Intel Core i5-4690 3.4GHz - € 275,00 Processor Overclocking No Overclocking Processor Cooling Enermax T40 Black - € 42,00 Motherboard Asrock H81M- HDS - € 56,00 Supports New 4th and 4th Generation Intel® Xeon® / Core™ i7 / i5 / i3 / Pentium® / Celeron® Processors (Socket 1150) 100% All Solid Capacitor design Supports Dual Channel DDR3/DDR3L 1600 1 PCIe 2.0 x16, 1 PCIe 2.0 x1 Graphics Output Options : D-Sub, DVI-D, HDMI Realtek Gigabit LAN 5.1 CH HD Audio (Realtek ALC662 Audio Codec) 2 SATA3, 2 SATA2, 4 USB 3.1 Gen1 (2 Front, 2 Rear), 8 USB 2.0 Supports A-Tuning, XFast 555, Easy Driver Installer, FAN-Tastic Tuning, USB Key RAM Memory 8GB G.Skill 1600MHz - € 77,00 Memory #1 Seagate 1TB HDD 7200RPM - € 67,00 Memory #2 None Memory #3 None Soundcard 7.1 surround trough motherboard Internet / WiFi TP-Link 300MB WLAN Adapter - € 16,00 Optisch drive #1 Liteon DVD-rewriter - € 16,00 Optisch drive #2 None Operating System Windows 10 GPU #1 Nvidia Geforce GTX 960 - OGS Overclocked - € 249,00 https://www.geforce.com/hardware/desktop-gpus/geforce-gtx-960 GPU #2 None PowerSupply Corsair VS550 Watt - € 65,00 Gaming Desktop Z87-Cooler Master K380-no-leds-Intel Core i5-4670-no-Cooler Master Hyper 412-Asrock H81M-HDS-8GB Kingston HyperX 1600MHz-Seagate 1TB-no-no-7.1 surround trough motherboard-TP-Link 300MB WLAN Adapter-Liteon DVD-re

So i just upgraded from an i3 4160 to a Ryzen 5 2600 but i still have a GTX 960.In games like Fortnite/overwatch i can just lock my framerate to 75(my monitors refresh rate) but in some other games like pubg or rainbow six my gpu is always almost at 99%.Because of that my games run fine but my stream drops frames down to 10-20fps.i have a really old GT430 laying around somewhere in the house.Can i use that to composite and render scenes ?I'm still gone use x264 for my cpu and use the GTX 960 strictly for games.

I haven't bought anything from TaoBao before, I do not understand Mandarin either. Is it safe to buy from there? Here's what I want to buy:https://m.intl.taobao.com/detail/detail.html?spm=a21wu.11154615-global.list.2&id=561437648942&item_id=561437648942 If you guys can understand Mandarin, does it look legit? Any shipping charges? I do not want to buy using a TaoBao agent because they charge a lot for shipping (I am used to free shipping due to AliExpress). I live in India by the way.

Hi all! First time poster here, usually just a lurker but I have run in to a problem and exhausted my own ideas, so I come to you for help! For the past few months my GTX 960 has been giving me problems booting, bsods (occasionally), and incredibly low benchmark performance (1800 ish on performancemark). The problem is all of these issues seem to be intermittent. For instance two weeks ago i did a performancemark test and scored over 6000, today i did another one and it was 1668. I have done everything imaginable to try and figure out why this is happening, but i have no idea. I have tried the following: - tested the card at a local shop (booted fine, wasn't benchmarked) - removed card and re-inserted - flashed CMOS and updated BIOS - different PCiE slots (and pcie 8 pin cables) - updating drivers - updating windows - overclocking - underclocking - furmark, catzilla, ksi kombuster, performancemark I'm not sure what else i can do, and I'm not quite ready to blow money on new parts yet as my partner and i just bought a house so money is kind of tight. System Specs: Asus Z97-A LGA 1150 Intel Core i5 4690K MSI GTX 960 4gb 100 ME 8 GB DDR3 Corsair Ram 120gb ssd 2tb hdd **forgot to include this originally, but the PSU is a Corsair TX750W, i tested all 4 pcie 12v cables and had the same issues with each.** As a reference, i was playing Monster Hunter World yesterday averaging 50-55 fps, i go to try it today and im averaging 14-17fps. Any tips would be super valuable so thank you in advance. Please let me know if you have any questions. Thanks!

I am looking to build a pc with a relatively powerful CPU (Ryzen 5 2600) and am not allocating a lot of my budget to the GPU. With a budget of around $60, One of my friends is offering me a GTX960 4gb for $60, or a Radeon HD7950 for $50. Which is a better deal, or should I try to get a different price elsewhere?

I am wondering if I can pop a 1050ti or a gtx960 into an old Z800 HP desktop. The graphics card seems to physically fit in the large PCIe slot fine. I'm just wondering if the motherboard will bottleneck the speed of the graphics card because its old. The motherboard is an E139765 I believe. The PCIe slot on the motherboard (the one that I plugged the graphics card into) reads "J41 Slot 2 PCIe 2x16 75w". I believe the model number from HP is FF825AV. What do people think? Can I just boot it up with a windows 10 hard drive and play some games at a 1050ti level?

i know this is quite an Old hardware but is gtx 960 4gb compatible with asrock n68c-s ucc with athlon II 2core/2thread CPU? please list what I need to know or if this is not possible. thanks in advance.

Hello everyone and thank you for reading my post I know not a lot of people come in this place, but thank you for you time. I have multiple GPU that I don't need anymore and I wanna know what can I do with it and how much can I get for it. I have an MSI GTX 960 4G GAMING and an MSI GTX 1070 GAMING Z 8G, and I wanna know how much I can ask for them and if it's not worth it what can I do with it . And I just bought 1 month ago, an EVGA GeForce RTX 2070 SUPER FTW3 ULTRA and Canada Computers don't want to refund me (i've asked a refund before the new RTX 30 series have been announce because EVGA card are really not good and Precision X1 is one of the worst app I ever worked with, as you can see I am an old MSI power user.) Can you guys tell me what is my best plan of Action right now? I really don't know what to do... Here is my situation more in details, I have a fresh new build with a i9-10850K and an old one with an i7-4770K, My new build curently have the RTX 2070 Super installed on it and my old build the GTX 1070 GAMING Z, The RTX is still brand new only 2 weeks of use and the 1070 2 years with no overclocking so basically brand new too in perfect condition and same for the 960 2 years of use without overclocking and perfect condition in the box.

A few weeks ago I was browsing on chrome and all of a sudden my computer just shut down. I assumed my power outlet was acting up and walked away, when I came back I couldn't get the computer to turn on, I would press the power button and no lights would come on and no fans would spin. At first I thought something went bad with my power supply, I borrowed one from a friend and hooked it up to my system. The computer still wouldn't turn on with the new power supply. I suspected my video card was bad because it is the oldest part in my build and I got it second hand (GTX 960). When I unplugged the power supply from my Gtx 960 and pressed the power button on the front panel the system will turn on, the fans come on and the motherboard lights come on, I tried again with my original power supply but left the graphics card unplugged and the system worked turned on. However I can't get any signal to my monitor (using a VGA connection) and a new light in the bottom right of the motherboard also comes on, it's labeled as VGA on the motherboard and in the manual. All the motherboard manual says is that the light indicates something is wrong with VGA. I am pretty sure that the GTX 960 went bad and shocked something on my motherboard because nothing will spin or light up when the graphics card is plugged into the power supply. I have tried changing the PCIe slot of the graphics card but still nothing comes on. I have not gone as far as resetting my cmos or removed my CPU from the socket because I don't want to do irreversible damage. Do I just need to replace my motherboard or is there another easier solution? Any advice is greatly appreciated. If it matters here are my system specs Motherboard - Gigabyte B350m CPU - Ryzen 5 1600x RAM - 2 ballistix 3200mHz 4GB sticks GPU - GTX 960 2GB Power supply - Corsair CX550m Storage - seagate 1TB HD and a 256 GB SSD (some cheap one) OS - Windows 10

I just bought black ops 3 and it runs very poorly 12-40fps on everything low settings and resolution as low as possible. Specs: gtx960 i5 6400 16gb ram and watercooling

So I build pc's my friends is I have a keen interest and a good knowledge of hardware and software but in the process of upgrading my friends aincent desktop from DDR to ddr3 with parts I already own he asked me to look for a cheep GPU now I instantly thought of a gtx 950 as i have one and it is good so whilst looking for one second hand one I came across this on eBay https://rover.ebay.com/rover/0/0/0?mpre=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.ebay.co.uk%2Fulk%2Fitm%2F332608074281 now there seam to be lots selling them I normally tend to stay away from unbranded or brands I don't know but with this being so cheep I an abit tempted but I don't want to east mine and my friends money so thought I would ask here as I love watching the videos and I know I'll get an honest answer

Hi community! I'm from Vietnam and have roughly $130-$140 to spend on an used graphics card - and since i'm building a new rigs, i'm getting a new power supply In Vietnam, a 650W power supply is ~$5 more expensive than a 550W one. Both are Bronze rated so quality wise, it's decent. Remove the PSU factor I've gathered choices, and most compelling amongst are GTX960 Windforce G1 or MSi 2 fans version(~$150) and R9 280X MSi Twin Frozr(~$125). If i'm going with the 960 then i'll use the 550W PSU & if i'm going with the 280X i'll use a 650W one I use air conditioner but don't want to spend a hell lot in electricity bills & I play CS:GO, GTA V, Battlefield 4, Fortnite, Minecraft & except for Minecraft, which i'll be playing on Max, I play mainly on Low/Medium 1080p. And a bit of streaming too, i'll use GPU acceleration for encoding to YouTube. Will 2GB on 960 kill the gameplay? Will 280X's 250W TDP kill my electricity bills? Which one should I choose? Thanks!<I will have adequate cooling within my case>

I used to run an i3-3220 and A GTX 960 before decided to upgrade my cpu to a Ryzen5 1600X but when I did I saw horrible performance with stuttering and freezeing in every game so I upgraded my ram aswell to two sticks of Corsair vengeance 3000 MHz and it helped quite abit but still I had many issues performance wise so I decided to try lowering my graphics options to low and my games ran fine at 60 FPS. But I never had to do so with my old i3 so I’m wondering is since my new cpu is faster if the gpu is bottlenecking? Any help would be apreciated.

I have a pretty normal PC but it has a huge bottleneck in many games, so please say what should i do to fix it. In example in Just Cause 3 on lowest settings possible in 1080p i have 30fps but i have a pretty good PC.Help PLS! My specs: Intel Xeon E3-1231 v3 3.4Ghz Gigabyte GTX 960 2GB Mini 16GB DDR3 RAM GA-H81M-S2H motherboard 120GB SSD 1TB HDD

Motherboard is Asrock X370 Killer SLI/ac I just installed my second MSI GTX960 4GB. Both cards are identical. Brand new SLI bridge installed. Both cards are detected by windows, and have the latest driver installed. Nvidia Control Panel says I need to connect the bridge, and has the SLI options greyed out. I have tried it in both directions, but this does not help. GPU-Z shows PCIe x8 3.0 on card one, but only PCIe x8 1.1 on card two. Otherwise, they are identical. Could I have a bad bridge? Could the 1.1 speed on card two be causing the issue? Why would card two show a lower speed anyway?

Hey so I just made this PC which contains: Intel i5 6600k UnlockedCooler Master Hyper 103Gigabyte Z170X-Gaming 3 Crucial Ballistix DDR4 8GB Asus Strix GeForce GTX 960 Cooler Master V550 Semi-Modular PSU Kingston SSDnow 120GB SSD Seagate 1TB HDD and a 500GB HDD It's all built in a Cooler Master Scout Storm case, So I was wondering what you guys thought and if you had any suggestions for it. Cheers, Dan

I'm a first builder and I'm confused as to which cables go where for my GTX 960, I've got an 8 pin that goes into the card itself and it splits into two 6 pins, any idea where to go from there?

Hi, i just built a pc, and playing GTA 5 and assassin's creed 4 i noticed 60 fps was no problem for my rig, but using the "optimize" feature in theGeForce expedience makes AC4 drop frames badly! I was told that playing on anything above 32" for your monitor can really decrease performance. I am currently (temporarily) using a 42" element TV via HDMI. Do you think this is the source of this lowering of frames? Or is my rig simply not powerful enough for AC4? But then why would it do that when the GeForce experience is supposed to analyze your hardware (mainly your graphics card), and tell you what will be the prettiest while still keeping 60fps? Do I need to replace/add to my graphics card? My power supply? My Ram? Here are my specs: Processor: i7 4790 (not sure if locked or unlocked) MOBO: z97-e USB 3.1 PSU: 650w corsair RAM: Cricial Ballistix sport 16GB Ram Graphics: GTX 960 FTW 4GB SSD: 850 EVO 250GB HDD: 1TB WD Blue Case: Spec alpha OS: Windows 10 x64 Recommended specs for AC4 according to steam:: RECOMMENDED: OS: Windows Vista SP2 or Windows 7 SP1 or Windows 8 (both 32/64bit versions) Processor: Intel Core i5 2400S @ 2.5 GHz or better or AMD Phenom II x4 940 @ 3.0 GHz Memory: 4 GB RAM Graphics: Nvidia GeForce GTX 470 or AMD Radeon HD 5850 (1024MB VRAM with Shader Model 5.0) or better Storage: 30 GB available space Sound Card: DirectX Compatible Sound Card with latest drivers Additional Notes: Supported video cards at the time of release: Nvidia GeForce GTX 260 or better and GeForce GTX 400, GTX 500, GTX 600 and GTX 700 series. AMD Radeon HD4870 or better and Radeon HD5000, HD6000 and HD7000 series. Note: Latest GeForce drivers tested: 327.23 for all series. Latest Radeon drivers tested: 13.1 for Radeon HD4000, 13.4 for Radeon HD5000, HD6000 and HD7000 series on Vista and 13.9 for Radeon HD5000, HD6000 and HD7000 series on Win7 and Win8. Laptop versions of these cards may work but are NOT officially supported.

Title says it all. This is an interesting product, because I have only seen GTX 960's in the above $200 price range. What I am confused about though is it missing the STRIX cooler design, and being a flashy white, blower style design, that reminds me of reference cards. Think its a good buy? https://www.amazon.com/GeForce-Overclocked-DisplayPort-Graphic-TURBO-GTX960-OC-4GD5/dp/B016TZUPSQ?ie=UTF8&tag=pcpapi-20

I'm experiencing a loss of frames in games like Overwatch and Battlefield 1 shortly after installing the new driver (372.70). I originally thought that since these games both just went through massive overhauls and updates that it was purely client side and it wasn't my problem. BUT then I noticed the same loss of frames on games like CS:GO where I know my rig can easily run @ a constant 300 FPS. I just reverted back to driver 372.52 and I am still noticing loss of frames in the games listed above. Now I'm beginning to get concerned, any potential solutions are appreciated. My current Rig: i7 4790K Devil's Canyon GTX 960 4gb Asus Sabertooth Z97-Mark 2 Motherboard 16GB RAM

I've just come back from a two-week vacation and I am completely stumped by constant stuttering. I've had this system for around 3 years and suddenly any audio/visual processes are producing worryingly large lag spikes and are even present while simply watching youtube and listening to spotify (Audio lags). I've narrowed it down to either the CPU or GPU, as RAM intensive tasks do not cause any problems - I came to a similar conclusion when looking into storage issues. Any ideas? Is it worth re-seating my CPU? And could it just be the sheer age of my components? Thank you in advance

Hey guys, so i started on my GPU overclock today with MSI Afterburner. I did a test on Unigine Heaven benchmark before i overclocked to get the base test. I got a score 1774 ans fps of 70.4. Then i started my overclock, i let heaven run in a windowed mode, and kept bringing settings up. Finally i got to where i wanted it. But then i tried the benchmark again, and my score went down to 800 ish, and a average frames of 30??? so i thought i fucked up somewhere, so i reset everything back to where it was and it didnt improve at all, still around a score of 800... Did i break something? Temps stayed normal throughout the whole process. Btw im running a EVGA GTX 960.