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My old rig has a i7 920, 12GB DDR3 and 2 GTX 560 Ti in SLI, running in a 1920x1080 @ max 60Hz. What is frustrating me most is VRam. Should I upgrade the graphics card? If so, what would you recommend used / on a budget?

 

I'd like to be able to play AC Origins on it and other newer games.

 

Thanks in advance.

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4 minutes ago, bejamartins said:

My old rig has a i7 920, 12GB DDR3 and 2 GTX 560 Ti in SLI, running in a 1920x1080 @ max 60Hz. What is frustrating me most is VRam. Should I upgrade the graphics card? If so, what would you recommend used / on a budget?

 

I'd like to be able to play AC Origins on it and other newer games.

 

Thanks in advance.

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X5650 and any of these gpu are solid upgrades.

Best

980 ti/fury/1070

Better

390/290/980/1060/7990/690

Good

780 ti/780/970/960/770 4gb/1050 ti/7950/680

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14 minutes ago, bejamartins said:

'd like to be able to play AC Origins on it and other newer games.

How much are you willing to spend? Truth be told for AC Origins you're looking at both CPU and GPU upgrade, the i7 920 has Really aged by now already.

Personal Desktop":

CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

CPU: AMD R9 7950XT  |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Master |~| RAM: 32G Kingston HyperX |~| GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX (Reference) |~| PSU: Corsair HX1000 80+ Platinum |~| Windows Boot Drive: 2x 512GB (1TB total) Plextor SATA SSD (RAID0 volume) |~| Linux Boot Drive: 500GB Kingston A2000 |~| Storage: 4TB WD Black HDD |~| Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600 |~| Display 1 (leftmost): Eizo (unknown model) 1920x1080 IPS @ 60Hz|~| Display 2 (center): BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 1920x1080 TN @ 240Hz |~| Display 3 (rightmost): Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 3840x2160 IPS @ 60Hz 10-bit |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro (games / art) + Linux (distro: NixOS; programming and daily driver)
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15 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

How much are you willing to spend? Truth be told for AC Origins you're looking at both CPU and GPU upgrade, the i7 920 has Really aged by now already.

Around €150 tops. 920 handles a boost of 2.93GHz, should handle medium requirements, no? To upgrade the CPU I'd have to upgrade the board as well at this point.

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8 minutes ago, bejamartins said:

Around €150 tops. 920 handles a boost of 2.93GHz, should handle medium requirements, no? To upgrade the CPU I'd have to upgrade the board as well at this point.

Well it has a considerable weaker IPC though it has the clocks but doesn't have the enough "instructions per clock" to handle the latest and greatest, AC Origins for instance does hammers down CPUs, although certainly upgrading the GPU first to something like a second hand GTX 980 would make the greater difference but do be aware of your CPU reaching its limits already.

Personal Desktop":

CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

CPU: AMD R9 7950XT  |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Master |~| RAM: 32G Kingston HyperX |~| GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX (Reference) |~| PSU: Corsair HX1000 80+ Platinum |~| Windows Boot Drive: 2x 512GB (1TB total) Plextor SATA SSD (RAID0 volume) |~| Linux Boot Drive: 500GB Kingston A2000 |~| Storage: 4TB WD Black HDD |~| Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600 |~| Display 1 (leftmost): Eizo (unknown model) 1920x1080 IPS @ 60Hz|~| Display 2 (center): BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 1920x1080 TN @ 240Hz |~| Display 3 (rightmost): Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 3840x2160 IPS @ 60Hz 10-bit |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro (games / art) + Linux (distro: NixOS; programming and daily driver)
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5 minutes ago, Princess Cadence said:

Well it has a considerable weaker IPC though it has the clocks but doesn't have the enough "instructions per clock" to handle the latest and greatest, AC Origins for instance does hammers down CPUs, although certainly upgrading the GPU first to something like a second hand GTX 980 would make the greater difference but do be aware of your CPU reaching its limits already.

The best I can find for my socket is a guy near me selling a Xeon X5570 for €15. Maybe it can make a little bit of a difference.

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15 minutes ago, bejamartins said:

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I mean that's just the professional grade of your mainstream CPU in a way... the performance won't be too different:

http://cpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Intel-Core-i7-920-vs-Intel-Xeon-X5570/1981vsm12230

 

There is a bump, higher clocks and all... just don't know if worth the hassle or even he 15 euros, I'd stick looking first for a good deal on the video card department and then study a platform upgrade for the next upgrade down the road, the i7 920 will still be powerful enough to show you the gains over the fairly outdated GTX 560 Ti 2way sli... invest all your money on a single component like the idea of a GTX 980 so you have something powerful enough to justify upgrading around.

 

*Just make sure to overclock the hell out of the i7 920, you can gain up to 30% bump in gaming performance.

Personal Desktop":

CPU: Intel Core i7 10700K @5ghz |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock Pro 4 |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Z490UD ATX|~| RAM: 16gb DDR4 3333mhzCL16 G.Skill Trident Z |~| GPU: RX 6900XT Sapphire Nitro+ |~| PSU: Corsair TX650M 80Plus Gold |~| Boot:  SSD WD Green M.2 2280 240GB |~| Storage: 1x3TB HDD 7200rpm Seagate Barracuda + SanDisk Ultra 3D 1TB |~| Case: Fractal Design Meshify C Mini |~| Display: Toshiba UL7A 4K/60hz |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro.

Luna, the temporary Desktop:

CPU: AMD R9 7950XT  |~| Cooling: bq! Dark Rock 4 Pro |~| MOBO: Gigabyte Aorus Master |~| RAM: 32G Kingston HyperX |~| GPU: AMD Radeon RX 7900XTX (Reference) |~| PSU: Corsair HX1000 80+ Platinum |~| Windows Boot Drive: 2x 512GB (1TB total) Plextor SATA SSD (RAID0 volume) |~| Linux Boot Drive: 500GB Kingston A2000 |~| Storage: 4TB WD Black HDD |~| Case: Cooler Master Silencio S600 |~| Display 1 (leftmost): Eizo (unknown model) 1920x1080 IPS @ 60Hz|~| Display 2 (center): BenQ ZOWIE XL2540 1920x1080 TN @ 240Hz |~| Display 3 (rightmost): Wacom Cintiq Pro 24 3840x2160 IPS @ 60Hz 10-bit |~| OS: Windows 10 Pro (games / art) + Linux (distro: NixOS; programming and daily driver)
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GTX 1050 Ti

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I have a pc which i build earlier with 

Cpu: i3 6100 3.7 Ghz

Ram : 4 gb ddr4 

Mobo: asus h110m-cs 

Hdd: 1tb 

In which i need 2 upgrade my graphics card which should i buy whitin 13000 indian rupees ??

I have 1080 p monitor and like 2 play games which my cpu supports like assassin's creed syndicate may be gta 5 and which ram should i pop in??

 A 12 gb ddr4 or a 4 gb ddr4 where my mobo have 2 ram slot... 

Thanks in advance....

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10 hours ago, Gamerfreakgopi said:

I have a pc which i build earlier with 

Cpu: i3 6100 3.7 Ghz

Ram : 4 gb ddr4 

Mobo: asus h110m-cs 

Hdd: 1tb 

In which i need 2 upgrade my graphics card which should i buy whitin 13000 indian rupees ??

I have 1080 p monitor and like 2 play games which my cpu supports like assassin's creed syndicate may be gta 5 and which ram should i pop in??

 A 12 gb ddr4 or a 4 gb ddr4 where my mobo have 2 ram slot... 

Thanks in advance....

I think a 1050 Ti would suit you as well. I advise you to go for the bigger ram so you can just add more later without wasting what you already have.

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8 hours ago, bejamartins said:

I think a 1050 Ti would suit you as well. I advise you to go for the bigger ram so you can just add more later without wasting what you already have.

I thought of buying gigabyte  1050 ti 

https://www.amazon.in/Gigabyte-Geforce-1050-GDDR5-Graphics/dp/B01M4KGTNI?tag=googinhydr18418-21

This one is it good or bad.....

And thanks for the suggestion. ..

 

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On 02/01/2018 at 5:27 PM, Gamerfreakgopi said:

I have a pc which i build earlier with 

Cpu: i3 6100 3.7 Ghz

Ram : 4 gb ddr4 

Mobo: asus h110m-cs 

Hdd: 1tb 

In which i need 2 upgrade my graphics card which should i buy whitin 13000 indian rupees ??

I have 1080 p monitor and like 2 play games which my cpu supports like assassin's creed syndicate may be gta 5 and which ram should i pop in??

 A 12 gb ddr4 or a 4 gb ddr4 where my mobo have 2 ram slot... 

Thanks in advance....

Yes a 1050 Ti is what u need. Btw, add the same RAM model which u have. 

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On 03/01/2018 at 6:19 AM, Gamerfreakgopi said:

I thought of buying gigabyte  1050 ti 

https://www.amazon.in/Gigabyte-Geforce-1050-GDDR5-Graphics/dp/B01M4KGTNI?tag=googinhydr18418-21

This one is it good or bad.....

And thanks for the suggestion. ..

 

The Gygabyte is a decent one, I bought the windforce model: https://www.amazon.in/Gigabyte-GeForce-GTX-1050-Windforce/dp/B01M25X363/ , it has a better cooling and comes factory overclocked.

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On 03/01/2018 at 11:49 AM, Gamerfreakgopi said:

I thought of buying gigabyte  1050 ti 

https://www.amazon.in/Gigabyte-Geforce-1050-GDDR5-Graphics/dp/B01M4KGTNI?tag=googinhydr18418-21

This one is it good or bad.....

And thanks for the suggestion. ..

 

I would say u get a model with two fans. Zotac provides cheap ones. 

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