Replacement Video Card - What Can I Put in This PC?

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  mrkorrupt on 03/04/2019 - 16:56

  +1

  upgrade time wait till ryzen 3000 in june

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  garetz on 03/04/2019 - 17:19

  -1

  i would get a 1050 ti for that price range and use, anything more and your just wasting money

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    N1NJ4W4RR10R on 03/04/2019 - 19:57

    +2

    Rx570 would be the better choice, 1050tis are rip offs compared to them.

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  dcep on 03/04/2019 - 17:35

  +1

  rx570

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  ozhunter on 03/04/2019 - 18:57

  +3

  My PC is about 5 years old

  But the cpu came out 10 years ago.

  but I want to play games like Assasin's Creed and the upcoming Anno series.

  Since a GTX 970 is recommend for both those games, I'd go the the GTX 1060-6GB or AMD RX 580. https://gpu.userbenchmark.com/Compare/Nvidia-GTX-970-vs-Nvid…

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  Understandable on 03/04/2019 - 19:59

  i wouldnt trust the cpu with anything more than a gtx 1050 or a 960 as for bottleneck and preformance issues

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  pongobyte on 03/04/2019 - 21:37

  +1

  You can probably start with some benchmarks, especially for the more demanding AC
  https://www.pcgamer.com/au/assassins-creed-origins-performan…
  https://www.techpowerup.com/reviews/Performance_Analysis/Ass…

  You also need to think what settings and resolution you aim for.

  It seems that at the budget end the RX570 would be better value than the 1050Ti (not included in the results but it is a 4GB card below the 1060 3GB), but you'd likely get unplayable FPS if you go too high with your settings.
  As you go up the price scale, things change with Nvidia taking a slight lead.
  Note the Nvidia GPUs in those benchmarks are older gen Pascal, there are more recent Turing cards.

  For example the GTX 1660 or 1660Ti, seem to trump the RX580 by a healthy margin here
  https://www.eurogamer.net/articles/digitalfoundry-2019-03-25…

  You can try one of these cards first on your current system, see how you go.
  You will have to bite the bullet in the end and upgrade the whole thing as the CPU will likely hold you back quite heavily.

  Good luck

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  SnowDragon on 04/04/2019 - 08:33

  Personally I'd just sell that PC for $50-100 and then grab a techfast build for $450-$500.

  Might as well upgrade everything rather than just one part. As others mentioned the CPU will be a bottleneck when upgrading GPU.

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  GirlFriday on 04/04/2019 - 09:02

  Thank you all, much appreciated for your comments. Can I just upgrade the CPU and GPU then, or does the whole motherboard need to be replaced as well?

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    03corlia on 04/04/2019 - 09:49

    +1

    GPU doesn't need the motherboard to upgrade, but if you're thinking about upgrading the CPU you probably will. Use pcpartpicker.com and put in your current build, it'll tell you what you can and can't upgrade to.

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    dcep on 04/04/2019 - 12:33

    +1

    Overclock your cpu to 4.2ghz

    gpu just get rx570

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  mooncake111 on 04/04/2019 - 12:59

  If you just want something to replace your current GPU, because you think it is on the way out then go with an RX570 as others have said. This will allow you to continue playing the things you play. And you can always put that into a new pc

  However, if you want to play upcoming games you will need to upgrade most of your pc in the future.

  You will need to essentially budget for a new motherboard,CPU,ram in the future.

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  scrimshaw on 04/04/2019 - 13:17

  I'm quite sure Vega 11 integrated graphics will be better than the Radeon 6850. I have one of those 1GB GDDR5 variants which is factory OC'ed and it comes out pretty slow in a lot of games, and the drivers for it are also ancient and very unoptimised

  This means you can build an AMD Ryzen 5 2400G system and even without a graphics card installed, it'll give you better performance over the 6850 while also reducing total system power draw by at least a hundred watts or so.

  though ass.creed does require a pretty powerful GPU, so perhaps look into grabbing a AMD video card, you will get 2 or 3 free games with it, depending on whether you get the RX 570 / 580 or the more powerful cards.

  You only have two days left before the promotion is over. and if those games look good to you should consider buying a card sooner rather than later.

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  GirlFriday on 16/04/2019 - 09:16

  +1

  Got a RX580 in the end which is great. Had to upgrade my PSU as I had a 450w with 6 pin only and the RX580 requires 6 pin and 8 pin connectors.

  Thanks for the advice guys!