Friend upgrading GPU and PSU...

R2dbag

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Hi,

I'm thinking about buying my friend an Nvidia GTX 760 GPU for his Birthday (as I'm such an awesome friend!) he will also need to upgrade his PSU so I will be purchasing a Corsair RM 750w PSU to go with his new GPU.

I just wanted to make doubly sure his current rig is compatible with these two new components.

His motherboard is an Asus P8Z68-V LX and he is running an Intel Core i5 2400 @ 3100Mhz with 8bg RAM.

Will his current components be able to handle this new gear?

Cheers
 
An awesome friend who is buying him the wrong card.

Get an R9 280 instead.

Both the 760 and 280 are compatible with that motherboard

Also 750w is overkill - go for a good quality 550w
 
For that budget for the PSU, I would also look at the EVGA Supernova G2 750w. It has a 10 year warranty and the internals are made by Superflower, who are producing the best PSU's out there at the moment.
 
I agree with ted, this is what id pick.

YOUR BASKET
1 x Powercolor Radeon R9 280 TurboDUO 3072MB GDDR5 PCI-Express Graphics Card £155.99
1 x SuperFlower Golden Green HX 550W "80 Plus Gold" Power Supply - Black £53.99
Total : £219.58 (includes shipping : £8.00).



750W is pretty useless, his current motherboard doesn't (properly) support SLI/Xfire, so no need for a second GPU and his CPU isn't Overclockable (even if it was 550w wouldbe MORE than enough).

Aslong as he has a single GPU system he'll be fine with 550w.
 
Well I think you should wait a week or 2 until Nvidia launch GTX 960, it could cost £170 while GTX 760 will be EOL and cost a lot less.

GTX 960 will be much better upgrade than 280.
 
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