Hello people, been thinking thinking about upgrading my GPU for a bit now since it's about 3 years old and I would like something a bit newer and more powerful. I've been out of the tech game since I got my PC built and would like an upgrade. Anyway I've been reading that a dual less performing card can perform better than a decent single card, but with the dual cards there is a lot more heat produced as well with more wattage needed from the PSU is a bit of a worry. Any help would be awesome. If you need the specs of what I have just ask.
Good call, the triple fan windforce coolers are great and OC models usually have higher yield chips. What's your processor? All well and good to throw big graphics at gaming but if your CPU is pre Sandy then it might choke. Also agree singles are a safer option, I've always been a dual sucker, but man SLI and XFire can be such a PITA sometimes.
Haha thanks man. Like I said I've been off the PC wagon for a while and have forgotten a few things, but it's good too know that my PC components are still capable of some upgrades to a point.
Sandy still remains a formidable architecture, to Ivy and Haswell there really hasn't been any great leap. The 2600 should do you well for a while to come
I have that exact gigabyte 2gb 770. Its great!! runs cool , smashes BF4 so I would say most anything else it would do the same. I have a 2500k cpu OC'ed abit and 8 gb 1600mhz ram and get around 100fps in game on high settings. Great card wouldnt need anything better.
A search of various benchmark charts might be of interest to you. They provide good comparisons of CPUs and GPUs. Sent from my iPad using Tapatalk HD
Holly shitballz! What are you running?!? I am thinking about upgrading my GPU in the next month or so and I was going to spoil myself a little single GTX760! lol.
Sorry man didn't see these posts. Why not just get the 770? Massive difference in price? I'm running i7 2600, 8GB RAM, 2 TB hard drive, 750W PSU and of course the 770.
Yeah, 150 between the 4gb models. Can't justify going into the 400's for something I am only getting to play 2 games. Lol.
Ah fair enough. I got it because I kinda wanted to future proof my PC for some games in the future. I don't play many games, but when I do I want it too perform the best.
I can smash BF4 and ArmA 3 on my 6970's in Xfire, it's my CPU that's starting to show it's age, even at 4.2Ghz. That's where a lot of futureproofing will come from, given game devs are offloading more and more asset and physics calcs on processors, I guess cos they assume most folk are on the big three nowadays.
