good power supply and nvidia GPU

[Aimessan]

im planning on buying a new GPU and power supply with a budget of 160$ and im looking for suggestions. i am wanting to upgrade from a 8500 GT and a 300W power supply

any suggestions will be helpful

[Andi]

a 7770 sould run with your old Powersupply!

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/sapphire-video-card-100358l

 

but the Corsair CX430M is really cheap at the moment....

 

http://pcpartpicker.com/part/corsair-power-supply-cx430m

[ShiverMePenguins]

i have this ... quirk where i refuse to indulge in anyones fanboyisms, so i'm going to recommend

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814202023

 

it should run with the same power supply you have right now depending on your processor. otherwise get the corsair cx430

[Aimessan]

well i have a intel core 2 Duo and are AMD card better than Nvidia?

[ExDreamer]

They are the same. If you want phsyx,nvidia is the ways to go. But for price,amd have better value/performance.

[Aimessan]

how many monitors can you have on a single 7750, 7770?

[Andi]

7770's support eyefinity so 3 displays. but a 7770 is only fast enough to play on one monitor you would  have the other two for skype/videos.

 

A Nvidia 650 ti is maybe 10% faster costs 30% more...so don't recommend buying one

 

 

And a c2d is a good match for the 7770

[ShiverMePenguins]

well i have a intel core 2 Duo and are AMD card better than Nvidia?

in the sub 200$ range amd crushes nvidia at every competing card. anyone who says otherwise can't look at things objectively. a 7770ghz edition is had for 109 (the one i listed which has highest stock clock), cheapest 650ti i found was 15 more, and scores worse on pretty much every one of linus's benchmarks. 650ti boost is in the same price range as a 7850 2gb, the 7850 beats it. 660 against 7870, 7870 beats it.

 

and whenever anyone says amd can't use physx, they're lying. most games just either disable physx (so go into the .ini file, open the notepad file, and change physx to "true" or "on" depending on if the previous text was off or false), or you can't use phyx high settings (some games like hawken have 2 settings for physx you can only choose the high option with nvidia but it isn't THAT different at all).

 

 

plus you get free games, right now a 7770 gives you far cry 3 and fc3 bd for free. which is about a 60$ value.

[fishymamba]

 

and whenever anyone says amd can't use physx, they're lying. most games just either disable physx (so go into the .ini file, open the notepad file, and change physx to "true" or "on" depending on if the previous text was off or false), or you can't use phyx high settings (some games like hawken have 2 settings for physx you can only choose the high option with nvidia but it isn't THAT different at all).

 

 

But it also depends on what CPU you are using. He is using a pretty old CPU, so performance will be very bad if you run Physx on the CPU.

But yeah that is true, with the newer CPUs, Nvidia Physx is just a gimmick.

[ShiverMePenguins]

But it also depends on what CPU you are using. He is using a pretty old CPU, so performance will be very bad if you run Physx on the CPU.

But yeah that is true, with the newer CPUs, Nvidia Physx is just a gimmick.

didn't see the core2duo part. 

 

op: if you have a computer that old then save up and build a new one for a christmas present to yourself. that things like 4 generations old.

[Guest]

Moved to cases & PSU's