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Medium settings, no recording unless you want it to lag. Those computers you posted before were all from Walmart. Wake up, man, seriously. lol

I'll say this once and for all: A reasonably powerful gaming machine would be around $700 for starting price point.

The graphics cards you had in each link were garbage, everything else would have been "good enough", but a good GPU can cost a couple hundred dollars or more, hence the $700 starting area in most cases.

I currently have an AMD Phenom X4 3.2Ghz processor, and an Nvidia GTX 550 Ti 1GB. If I was to get the GTX 650 Ti 1Gb would my processor bottleneck my graphics card?

No, the motherboard would do that for you. The 600 series runs on PCI Express 3.0, your board runs 2.0. You might get a small boost in performance, maybe 5-10%, but it's not worth the money you'd be spending.

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I'm getting this PC! Just making sure if it's good for GTA IV. Like what settings? Can  I run with ENB, etc.  It's a Alienware.. Only $850

 

Operating System : Windows® 7 Home Premium, 64Bit, English

Graphics Card : 1GB GDDR5 NVIDIA® GeForce® GT 640
RAM : 8GB 
Processor : 3rd Generation Intel® Core™ i5-3330 (6M Cache, up to 3.0 GHz)
Power Supply : 240W External
 
I'm thinking of getting a new graphics card when it arrives! Help me out :D
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I've never heard of an external power supply. Is that a laptop or something? 240W is extremely low, so upgrades to the video card will be out of the question unless that changes. The video card you have isn't very good. Processor is mediocre. I'd say low, maybe medium, no ENB, no recording.

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Medium settings, no recording unless you want it to lag. Those computers you posted before were all from Walmart. Wake up, man, seriously. lol

I'll say this once and for all: A reasonably powerful gaming machine would be around $700 for starting price point.

The graphics cards you had in each link were garbage, everything else would have been "good enough", but a good GPU can cost a couple hundred dollars or more, hence the $700 starting area in most cases.

No, the motherboard would do that for you. The 600 series runs on PCI Express 3.0, your board runs 2.0. You might get a small boost in performance, maybe 5-10%, but it's not worth the money you'd be spending.

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I guess ill getit anyway. It seems better than my 550 TI which is good in my opinion.

You will just be wasting your money. Get your head out of your ass (not meant to be mean but its the truth), the only reason you want to upgrade is because well you want to say I have a 660TI or something like that. You wont be able to notice hardly a difference with the 660TI if you put it in a 2.0 slot and not a 3.0 slot. The entire reason why it gets better performance than the 560TI is because of that 3.0 slot. 3.0 slot can run data and what not a lot faster than a 2.0 slot.

So unless you get a motherboard with a 3.0 slot you will just be wasting your money....

Try upgrading to a 560TI or a 570 that's a 2.0 slot. Because as it stands you will be wasting your money. Basically your putting gas in a diesel truck....

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You will just be wasting your money. Get your head out of your ass (not meant to be mean but its the truth), the only reason you want to upgrade is because well you want to say I have a 660TI or something like that. You wont be able to notice hardly a difference with the 660TI if you put it in a 2.0 slot and not a 3.0 slot. The entire reason why it gets better performance than the 560TI is because of that 3.0 slot. 3.0 slot can run data and what not a lot faster than a 2.0 slot.

So unless you get a motherboard with a 3.0 slot you will just be wasting your money....

Try upgrading to a 560TI or a 570 that's a 2.0 slot. Because as it stands you will be wasting your money. Basically your putting gas in a diesel truck....

 

 

Well no thats not why. I want it because it looks like it has better preformance. I only have a 450W power supply so I cant run any of those fancy 600W cards. The 650TI was tested by ncix and proved to ahve much more fps on games than the 550.

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Well no thats not why. I want it because it looks like it has better preformance,and the guy at ncix tech tips said there is not much of a speed difference between 2.0 and 3.0. I only have a 450W power supply so I cant run any of those fancy 600W cards. The 650TI was tested by ncix and proved to ahve much more fps on games than the 550.

Yes it will be better performance but unless you have a 3.0 PCI slot to put it in you won't notice any difference. If you have a 2.0 PCI slot and take 2 cards

Geforce GTX 560 TI

And the Geforce GTX 660TI

If you put the 560TI in 1st test it out on a game lets say you get 70 FPS

Now put that 660TI in and you will get maybe 5FPS increase at max.

Now if you have a 3.0 PCI slot and you put it in you will see about 30FPS increase or so.

But since you have a 2.0 slot it cant react as fast as it would with a 3.0 PCI slot. let me see if I can find a way so everyone can understand.

Lets say you have a V12 engine in a car. But you have a transmission that is built for a v4 engine. If you try to floor it your engine is going to go full speed, but, your transmission will be screaming SLOW THE !@#$ DOWN! Same thing with your PCI slot the graphics card will want to go full speed, but the PCI slot will say SLOW THE !@#$ down and go to my speed.... So that poor v12 engine can only hit 70 MPH....

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Yes it will be better performance but unless you have a 3.0 PCI slot to put it in you won't notice any difference. If you have a 2.0 PCI slot and take 2 cards

Geforce GTX 560 TI

And the Geforce GTX 660TI

If you put the 560TI in 1st test it out on a game lets say you get 70 FPS

Now put that 660TI in and you will get maybe 5FPS increase at max.

Now if you have a 3.0 PCI slot and you put it in you will see about 30FPS increase or so.

But since you have a 2.0 slot it cant react as fast as it would with a 3.0 PCI slot. let me see if I can find a way so everyone can understand.

Lets say you have a V12 engine in a car. But you have a transmission that is built for a v4 engine. If you try to floor it your engine is going to go full speed, but, your transmission will be screaming SLOW THE !@#$ DOWN! Same thing with your PCI slot the graphics card will want to go full speed, but the PCI slot will say SLOW THE !@#$ down and go to my speed.... So that poor v12 engine can only hit 70 MPH....

 

Well waht card is below 450W that is okay or better than the 550?

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Well waht card is below 450W that is okay or better than the 550?

Not going to get anything better then the 550 without upgrading your power supply.

Now if you upgrade your PSU to lets say 550 at least than you open up space for more cards..

Geforce GTX 560 TI

Geforce GTX 570

If your going to get a new graphics card you don't want something that will be OK against the 550, you want something that will leave it in the dust. So I would skip over the 560TI if I were you and go with 570.

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Not going to get anything better then the 550 without upgrading your power supply.

Now if you upgrade your PSU to lets say 550 at least than you open up space for more cards..

Geforce GTX 560 TI

Geforce GTX 570

 

 

I think it'd be cheaper to upgrade my motherboard and then hopefully get the card for christmas. Waht motherboards have PCIe 3.0 support?

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I think it'd be cheaper to upgrade my motherboard and then hopefully get the card for christmas. Waht motherboards have PCIe 3.0 support?

 

Need your specs 1st,

CPU:

Ram:

PSU:

GraphicsCard:

If you cant find them just download speccy....

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AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition AM3 CPU OEM

 

 

Need your specs 1st,

CPU:

Ram:

PSU:

GraphicsCard:


If you cant find them just download speccy....

 

CPU: AMD Phenom II X4 955 Black Edition AM3 CPU OEM

Ram: ADATA Premier Srs 4GB(x2) 240Pin DDR3 1333 (8GB in total)

PSU: 450W

Graphics Card: EVGA Nvidia GTX 550 Ti 1GB

 

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