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Upgrade from NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti

Pinko

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Trying to get my head around the range of differences between GPUs and thought I'd go to more knowledgeable folk who could set me straight. Appreciate any guidance on a card to upgrade to from an NVIDIA GeForce GTX 650 Ti with a budget of approx. £200.

I'm not a hardcore gamer and don't care what make the card is but warranties are always nice. Play when I can get the time which is not that often but I do get into a game every now and then. I'd mostly play FPS games - Battlefield, Bioshock, DOOM, Wolfenstein, etc. part of my reason to upgrade is that I want to finally play Wolfenstein II which is not possible with current GPU and I have some spare cash.

Bought a Dell XPS8700 in 2013 and haven't touched it since. The specs are:
  • Windows 10 (64-bit OS)
  • Intel Core i7-4770 CPU @3.40GHz
  • 12GB RAM
  • Dell 0KWVT8 Motherboard, version A00
  • Dell D460 AM-02 PSU (I believe this is 460W)
  • Dual monitors, both 1920x1080. They are not 4k and no plans to go this route.
I was thinking of possibly a Gigabyte GeForce GTX 1660 Super Gaming OC 6G. Would I be way off with this?
 
In a word, YES!

I have a 1660ti in one PC, which is basically the same as the 1660 Super, which in turn is almost the same as the previous generations 1070. Performance wise it's well in control of 1080p monitor. It will even do 2560x1080, but it starts to struggle with some games on resolutions above that. I certainly wouldn't use one for 1440p, although even at that resolution it will be fine for older games.

So, big yes. It will do well.
 
Cheers for the direction. Out of curiosity, if I had another £50 to add, so £250 would there be a slightly better unit to go for that would have a bit more longevity over the years?
 
Pinko said:
Cheers for the direction. Out of curiosity, if I had another £50 to add, so £250 would there be a slightly better unit to go for that would have a bit more longevity over the years?
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For that money an RX5600XT,RX5700 or RTX2060 would be better choices,but I think since it's an old OEM machine I think it might be better to stick to the GTX1660 Super as power consumption is lower.

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Also the Gigabyte you talked about is big,so not sure if it will fit in your case - but I would not spend more than around £200 on a GTX1660 Super.

This model can be had for £200 if you shop around:
https://www.zotac.com/us/product/graphics_card/zotac-gaming-geforce-gtx-1660-super-twin-fan
 
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Had to pause the purchase and just back on the scene. I'd come across the fact that my CPU (i7 4770) will create a bottleneck with even the GTX 1660 of ~11%, never mind the GTX 1660 Super Gaming OC.

If I have that right, would I be wasting the Super Gaming OC version in my system, so best just to stick to the 'vanilla' 1660?
 
Pinko said:
I'd come across the fact that my CPU (i7 4770) will create a bottleneck with even the GTX 1660 of ~11%, never mind the GTX 1660 Super Gaming OC.
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Really? Where? It very much depends upon the game you're playing.

And bottlenecking doesn't actually matter anyway as long as the performance is good enough.
 
Pinko said:
Had to pause the purchase and just back on the scene. I'd come across the fact that my CPU (i7 4770) will create a bottleneck with even the GTX 1660 of ~11%, never mind the GTX 1660 Super Gaming OC.

If I have that right, would I be wasting the Super Gaming OC version in my system, so best just to stick to the 'vanilla' 1660?
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I really wouldn't worry about any potential bottleneck, it will still be a night & day difference compared to what you have now.

I'm running a 4790K (overclocked) but even at stock, it still rocks pretty much anything I throw at it on my Zotac 1080ti Amp Extreme (overclocked from the factory) which from what I read has a similar "bottleneck" as yours, from what I've deduced by experimenting with a friends standard reference issue card is my factory tweaked card still runs faster than a reference design despite the bottleneck a 4790K (stock) puts on it, equally though, having tried my same card with a friends fairly top end Ryzen system yes, the bottleneck is there but the money you have to spend to remove it frankly isn't worth the improvement if you follow my meaning. :)
 
Quartz said:
Really? Where? It very much depends upon the game you're playing.
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Came across comments about potential bottlenecking and then found two websites where you can enter your PSU, GPU, and RAM, and it spits out a bottleneck figure - though at the same time I've seen comments about these figures being spurious.

Scania said:
I really wouldn't worry about any potential bottleneck, it will still be a night & day difference compared to what you have now.
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Yeah I really want to just pull the trigger and get on with a purchase and not get too caught up on small differences I am really unlikely to notice. I am finding the 1660 Super Gaming OC only available through OCs and while I'd like to support OCs it's above my budget unfortunately at £279, so might need to just settle on the 1660 OC (£210) or stretch to the Super OC (£230).
 
Pinko said:
Came across comments about potential bottlenecking and then found two websites where you can enter your PSU, GPU, and RAM, and it spits out a bottleneck figure - though at the same time I've seen comments about these figures being spurious.
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user*********.net? Yup. They totally trashed any reputation they had - not that I'd heard of them before - by making dodgy claims about AMD CPUs and others. Their claims were thoroughly dismissed here and elsewhere. You can absolutely ignore whatever they say.
 
Pinko said:
Yeah I really want to just pull the trigger and get on with a purchase and not get too caught up on small differences I am really unlikely to notice. I am finding the 1660 Super Gaming OC only available through OCs and while I'd like to support OCs it's above my budget unfortunately at £279, so might need to just settle on the 1660 OC (£210) or stretch to the Super OC (£230).
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The £230 Super OC sounds like a good middle ground to me. :)
 
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