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Just wondering. I've got a spare BNIB GTX950 2GB OC card I could gift him for Christmas. Just wondering if that card would be worth giving him. He's got a non-overclocked 45nm Core2Quad still, with I think 8GB RAM, and Windows 7. He's a PC and console gamer. D3 on PC, mostly, and a few others.
His current card (last time we spoke) was a GTX460 2GB card, that I hooked him up with years and years ago, pretty-much.
I posed this question in another thread, and the response I got was, "that should be a good upgrade".
But my question in this thread, is more along the lines of, should I spend more money, and get him a GTX1050 2GB (Probably MSI Gaming, $135) or 1050ti 4GB (probably the Zotac "shorty", $160).
I paid like $120 for the MSI GTX950 2GB OC card. At the time, list price was $170, they were like $50 off.
Of course now, the 1050(ti) cards are out, and the GTX950 is "old hat".
His PSU is a RaidMax "Thunder V2" PSU, which got a mediocre but not bad review on JonnyGuru's site a few months back. I installed it for him last year. It has four PCI-E 6+2 pins, on two strings. (I recently deployed one of them myself for a pair of R9 270X 2GB cards, in my Thuban 1045T rig, for the Dec. F@H race.)
I don't really have the money to be spending more than $100, maybe $150 on him this Christmas. (Not like he ever gets me anything expensive. He did get me UT3 one Christmas, it was like $60. Then I never played it.
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I mean, I already have the GTX950 2GB card, so that's that, it wouldn't be an additional expenditure this month. But by the same token, I could re-arrange my rigs, and pull the two other GTX950 2GB cards (I have three total), and put them all in one machine, for more F@H power. I might do that, if I get ambitious, and/or TomsHardware gets close during the race.
Edit: I've got an R7 250X, I think 2GB DDR3 model. Is that any faster than a GTX460 2GB model? Roughly, I think an R7 250X, is a 7770, but this one has DDR3, and his GTX460 2GB has GDDR5, I think, or maybe back then, they just had GDDR3.
Edit: I think that this is his card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814261077
Product specs say GDDR5, so that's pretty likely to be faster than my 250X DDR3 card.
Edit: Hmm, some of those reviews aren't very good. Apparently, that's not a very well-engineered GTX460 card, especially with the cooling. Some people mentioned crashes. The last review was from 2011. I think I might have sold him that card new, back in 2012-2013.
Time for an upgrade!
Edit: Newegg on ebay, has a PNY "shorty" 4GB 1050 ti for $137.99 + $4.99 ship, and they've got a VisionTek 4GB RX 470 "blower" model, for $159.99 + $4.99 ship.
If I were to buy one, which one would be better? Would the RX 470 be overkill for a Core2Quad?
His current card (last time we spoke) was a GTX460 2GB card, that I hooked him up with years and years ago, pretty-much.
I posed this question in another thread, and the response I got was, "that should be a good upgrade".
But my question in this thread, is more along the lines of, should I spend more money, and get him a GTX1050 2GB (Probably MSI Gaming, $135) or 1050ti 4GB (probably the Zotac "shorty", $160).
I paid like $120 for the MSI GTX950 2GB OC card. At the time, list price was $170, they were like $50 off.
Of course now, the 1050(ti) cards are out, and the GTX950 is "old hat".
His PSU is a RaidMax "Thunder V2" PSU, which got a mediocre but not bad review on JonnyGuru's site a few months back. I installed it for him last year. It has four PCI-E 6+2 pins, on two strings. (I recently deployed one of them myself for a pair of R9 270X 2GB cards, in my Thuban 1045T rig, for the Dec. F@H race.)
I don't really have the money to be spending more than $100, maybe $150 on him this Christmas. (Not like he ever gets me anything expensive. He did get me UT3 one Christmas, it was like $60. Then I never played it.
)I mean, I already have the GTX950 2GB card, so that's that, it wouldn't be an additional expenditure this month. But by the same token, I could re-arrange my rigs, and pull the two other GTX950 2GB cards (I have three total), and put them all in one machine, for more F@H power. I might do that, if I get ambitious, and/or TomsHardware gets close during the race.
Edit: I've got an R7 250X, I think 2GB DDR3 model. Is that any faster than a GTX460 2GB model? Roughly, I think an R7 250X, is a 7770, but this one has DDR3, and his GTX460 2GB has GDDR5, I think, or maybe back then, they just had GDDR3.
Edit: I think that this is his card:
http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814261077
Product specs say GDDR5, so that's pretty likely to be faster than my 250X DDR3 card.
Edit: Hmm, some of those reviews aren't very good. Apparently, that's not a very well-engineered GTX460 card, especially with the cooling. Some people mentioned crashes. The last review was from 2011. I think I might have sold him that card new, back in 2012-2013.
Time for an upgrade!
Edit: Newegg on ebay, has a PNY "shorty" 4GB 1050 ti for $137.99 + $4.99 ship, and they've got a VisionTek 4GB RX 470 "blower" model, for $159.99 + $4.99 ship.
If I were to buy one, which one would be better? Would the RX 470 be overkill for a Core2Quad?
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