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Neoprod
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No problem. Check out some reviews and also the dimensions of the card...it's large and may have trouble fitting into all cases.
I have about 320mm clearance, so should fit, will have to redo some cabling. The extra year warranty vs the 2 years on the xfx card grabbed my attention, but given the history of evetech issues regarding warranty issues wasn't sure if it was worth the trouble.
The xfx looks good too without the rgb mania nowadays
The xfx looks good too without the rgb mania nowadays
NO. It is never worth taking the risk dealing with Evetech.
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Neoprod
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L-Dog
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Hey guys, done a few upgrades based on parts I got on special now looking to upgrade my GPU as this will probably be my last upgrade on this PC.
Antec VP500P, 500w
Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK8GX4M1A2400C14, 8GB, DDR4-2400, CL14, Black x 2
960 GB SSD
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 03G-P4-6160 (3gb ddr5)
Intel I3-9100-F
MSI H310M PRO-VH PLUS Micro ATX Motherboard (LGA 1151)(H4)(Intel H310)
Cooler Master MasterBox 3 Lite MCW-L3B2-KN5N - Black/Silver
What is the best GPU I can get without bottlenecking my CPU and requiring a new power supply ?
Antec VP500P, 500w
Corsair Vengeance LPX CMK8GX4M1A2400C14, 8GB, DDR4-2400, CL14, Black x 2
960 GB SSD
EVGA GeForce GTX 1060 03G-P4-6160 (3gb ddr5)
Intel I3-9100-F
MSI H310M PRO-VH PLUS Micro ATX Motherboard (LGA 1151)(H4)(Intel H310)
Cooler Master MasterBox 3 Lite MCW-L3B2-KN5N - Black/Silver
What is the best GPU I can get without bottlenecking my CPU and requiring a new power supply ?
Kung Fu Porkchop
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You will have to take a look at getting a faster CPU before upgrading your GPU. With a core i3, your options are quite limited
How about looking at a amd Ryzen cpu/ am4 mobo combination.
Price/perf you'd do better than intel route now
Barbarian Conan
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Especially if you game at 1080p, I agree with this.
If you want to game at 4K, then you can probably go up to a 3080 before the CPU becomes the bottleneck.
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Well just upgraded the CPU and Mobo (Used miles for the mobo and got the CPU for half price from a mate). Only looking to upgrade the GPU and maybe my screen in a couple of months... Possibly looking at a GTX 1660 Ti 6gb but not sure if it will bottle neck and if the performance bump is that big ?
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Archer
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Other than not needing extra cables, is there a tangible benefit to getting an M2 drive as a general gamer? I'm looking to get an older model TLC based NVMe drive with my next major PC upgrade, so the price difference to a 2.5" SSD is only 15% or so. I mean I see that the NVMe drives have higher peak reads, and more IOPS but does it translate to something in the real world?
The Voice
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Yes. But not significant like going from a HDD to SDD. You won't really notice it if you already have an SSD.
For roughly the same amount of money, there is no reason to buy a SATA SSD. NVMe SSDs have read and write speeds that are many times faster than SATA SSDs.
Will you notice this? I noticed a difference in boot speed switching from SATA SSD to NVMe SSD. Not as dramatic as hard drive to SSD, but still pretty good.
Considering they aren't really any more expensive, you might as well buy the faster one.
You won't notice the difference unless you work with huge video files, i/o intensive applications etc.
There are lots of comparison videos on youtube you can watch.
Barbarian Conan
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Oh, but you do. Its the difference between windows "loading" circle spinning once when you log on, vs the desktop just fading in. (Not scientific, completely different computers)
As for games, nothing yet. Who knows what the future brings. I know Star Citizen streams content from the drive during gameplay, and with the new consoles more games will probably start doing this.
I would just get the NVMe drive for a couple hundred more.
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From pushing the powerbutton to desktop takes ~8 seconds, on another pc with an elcheapo 120gb transcend ssd I do get that but it also only has a dual core cpu with 4gb of ram.
The Voice
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Yeah, like I said the difference between SSD and M.2 is pretty negligible in most applications. So if you already have an SSD it's not worth shelling out to replace it with an M.2 unless it's an increase in capacity. Unless, of course, you're trying to min/max every last bit of performance on your 3090-sli super computer.
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