video card upgrade

[dev893]

I've always been under the impression that a video card requiring extra power from the PSU would preform better but I guess with the way technology has been evolving I'm sure I can benefit from even a cheap upgrade, question is will my E8400 bottle neck a gtx 1050 or gtx 1060?

[Wolther]

Depends on what you’re gonna be doing, but in most cases yes it will bottle neck a new gpu. Doesn’t mean you can’t upgrade the gpu now and then do a system upgrade down the road.

 

up to you 

 

also total wattage isn’t a good indication of how a gpu performs. For example a 1060 performs much better than a 680, but the 680 has much higher wattage // not sure if you were confused by that, but just wanted to make sure 

[Jurrunio]

You can upgrade to a 1060 3gb if you wish to. You will see CPU bottleneck in many games, but it's better than upgrading the CPU then GPU again.

 

Power draw can only be used to compare GPU performance of the same architecture. For example AMD's RX 580 is on par with Nvidia's GTX 1060 but consumes 50% more power at 180W than the 1060's 120W.

[ShredBird]

E8400...  Core 2 Duo? 

[GitGud]

Go with 1050, on 1060 you'll get bad stutter due to massive CPU bottleneck.

[dev893]

11 hours ago, ShredBird said:

E8400...  Core 2 Duo? 

Yes got an old hp dc7900 for $10 threw 8gb ram a new psu and the gtx 460 on it, all i can afford currently 

[ShredBird]

Yeah, unfortunately that CPU is gonna hold back most games.  You won't see the full potential of a 1060, so unless you plan on moving it to a new machine later I would save your money.

[dev893]

On 12/25/2017 at 4:24 PM, ShredBird said:

Yeah, unfortunately that CPU is gonna hold back most games.  You won't see the full potential of a 1060, so unless you plan on moving it to a new machine later I would save your money.

I don't plan on upgrading just dont have money too, just bought an SSD, cpu cooler, and case so im slowly upgrading