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Upgrade 460gtx for low rez gaming?

Borsch

Borsch

Borsch

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Hello,

I am about to assemble the upgraded bits of my PC - 2500k, 8gb ram, Z68 mobo. I will be reusing my 500W Thermaltake Tough power PSU, my 7200rpm HDs and my 1440:900 monitor (I love 16:10!:)). I will also reuse my 460gtx 768 GPU.

Money is tight and I am just trying to think about the future. I am upgrading from C2D 2.00 (overclocked to 2.66 with a bit of kitchen foil!) 2gb RAM, so I guess I havnt even seen the true potential of my GPU... But I could probably sell it while its in warranty and get something to better match my PC. Worth it? Or not worth it? Any comments and thoughts are welcome!
 
I game at the same resolution, and can still play BF3 between 45 - 60 FPS on a mixture of high and ultra when overclocking my GTX 460 with an inferior CPU to yourself so no need to upgrade unless you have the extra money for something better. :)
 
Problem is the C2D dual core is getting very old now, I would try and get a C2Q 6600 cheap, overclock the nuts off it and get an additional 2gb memory for that rig to take him up to 4gb and he should be a lot better off.
 
CinderzFTW said:
I think he is talking about his current set up not the one he is going to buy.
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Some people /fail at reading the whole post :)

I run BF3 on 4GB RAM, and I find after a few rounds that alt-tabbing back to desktop becomes painfully slow. A quick check shows that I'm using ~3.9GB of 4GB RAM. BF3 runs perfectly well, but when you try to do something else with BF going in the background it's painful!

8GB is a wise investment, one I'll be making myself shortly I expect.
 
Havana_UK said:
Some people /fail at reading the whole post :)

I run BF3 on 4GB RAM, and I find after a few rounds that alt-tabbing back to desktop becomes painfully slow. A quick check shows that I'm using ~3.9GB of 4GB RAM. BF3 runs perfectly well, but when you try to do something else with BF going in the background it's painful!

8GB is a wise investment, one I'll be making myself shortly I expect.
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Only problem is he will have to buy DDR2 memory unless he is using a G41 LGA775 board that support DDR3 1333mhz. This is going to cost slightly more and is out of date. I would save up and upgrade this whole rig that will be Ivy Bridge ready thanks to the Z68 chipset/lga1155 socket. This will make this rig more future proof and a lot faster than the old dual core he is using atm.
 
If you read it, he has already bought it. So, he might aswell get put it together and enjoy his new system. He also said money is tight, so who knows how long it will take him to save up for Ivy.

Enjoy your new system and save the pennies for a new monitor, in the future ;)

-Edit- Beaten to it by Coupe! Thats what I get for getting side tracked :p
 
He says in the OP that he's upgrading to an i5 2500k why is his old 775 system being mentioned? I assumed he already has the i5 2500k, 8GB ram etc, and couple with his GTX 460 it should be fine for high/max settings on a a small 1440 x 900 monitor.

EDIT: Looks like I was beaten also! lol
 
Deception said:
If you read it, he has already bought it. So, he might aswell get put it together and enjoy his new system. He also said money is tight, so who knows how long it will take him to save up for Ivy.

Enjoy your new system and save the pennies for a new monitor, in the future ;)

-Edit- Beaten to it by Coupe! Thats what I get for getting side tracked :p
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Thank god somebody else in this thread doesn't FAIL at reading the WHOLE op :p
 
Cheers guys:)

Yeah, I have bought the processor,ram and mobo already, just waiting for ram and cooler to be delivered. (And yes, I wanted to upgrade to C2Q, even bought the thing, but found out that my Dell motherboard only supported C2D lol, so sold the quad and decided to upgrade to 1155).

The reason I mentioned my old system was because I wanted to mention that I do not know if 460 was enough for me or not- it was always CPU bottlenecked.

But thanks for your input! I will think about upgrading my monitor. So, am I right to think that GPU vRAM is used proportionally to the resolution? Ie, say "ultra settings" will eat up 1.5gb of vram at high res, but same "ultra settings" in that same game will eat say 768mb on lower res?
 
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