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Need new card

Do you have a budget in mind?
What resolution are you wanting to game at?
Are you planning on upgrading the rest of the rig in the future?
Do you need to upgrade right now or in the next couple of months?

It is a PCIE board and has a PSU that could run a dual GPU set up, you should have enough grunt in the PSU to run any single card. It just depends on your use case.

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Anything that is RX580 or an Nvidia 1060 or north would be a major step up from where you are currently.

There are some really good deals on the Vega 56&64 at the moment.

Ultimate gaming performance would be the Nvidia 2080 or 2080ti - but your current CPU would be a major bottleneck at that point.

If you are looking for upper/mid range and can wait for a month AMD are just about to release the RX670/680 which will be about 15% better than the RX570/580. Nvidia probably have a new 2060 that they will release to counter that.
 
It has two cards in it already with sli
the case is height 23 inches length 24 inches width 10 inches

I only want to put the one card in it for now but need to make sure that the GTX ones will work if not need to know what one would

PC is an intel and I dont think the RTX cards would work with my board
 
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You can literally put any current card in that case. There is a very, very slim chance that you couldn't sli in the future if you get a triple width card.
 
Wouldn't bother. i7 920 would be massively holding modern cards back due to low IPC and also, I think the amount of bandwidth on PCI 2.0 would be crippling to such a card.

If you have 1k to happily drop on an RTX you almost certainly have the budget to upgrade the CPU, Mobo and RAM.

Shawrey
 
Shawreyboy said:
Wouldn't bother. i7 920 would be massively holding modern cards back due to low IPC and also, I think the amount of bandwidth on PCI 2.0 would be crippling to such a card.

If you have 1k to happily drop on an RTX you almost certainly have the budget to upgrade the CPU, Mobo and RAM.

Shawrey
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+1

A nice Ryzen upgrade and a graphics card would do you a lot better than a GPU update only.
 
Ezyryder said:
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A nice Ryzen upgrade and a graphics card would do you a lot better than a GPU update only.
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Could easily spec a Ryzen platform update with a 1080ti for less money than a 2080ti. A Ryzen 2600 bundle is on offer starting at £320 plus £650 for a 1080ti at a respectable £970 which will give you an infinitely better experience than that old chip and a 2080/2080ti ever would.

Shawrey
 
I am upgrading the core to the 965 from the 920 and will go for the GTX 1060 I only need it to do for a while until I can save up and get a good gaming pc I know its not the best upgrade options but I want to try get a little longer from the pc
 
I would say it would almost be better to save up for a few months and then buy something in the January sales. The 1060 is not a great card for the price.
 
I am sure it's better than the two I have in it now the reason is one game I really want to play causes my PC to crash and another game I can't play it's all I can think to do for now until I have the cash
 
The RX580 is probably a better buy than the 1060 right now. Actually if you are looking to make do then I would be looking at an RX570 there are stonking deals on Polaris cards at the moment.

Plus as you are already on AMD drivers I suspect you can literally just drop an RX card into your board and it will just work.
 
I got an rx580 earlier this week, slotted it into a system of a similar age of yours, it is working wonderfully.
Card is on offer for 205 currently, 8gb card ram.
I also recently replaced the i7 920 for a six core xenon which cost 20.
Worthwhile, if only to teach myself how to build and replace paste and the cooler again.

I had a amd7850 prior, i think fps has more than doubled.
Wife got my 7850 to replace her 4790, so her fps more than doubled too.
 
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