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What has replaced the GTX 750ti as the low power go to GPU?

sastusbulbas

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As per title, in the past I would have looked at a GTX 750 Ti mini ITX GPU for any SFX budget gaming PC with a 350w or thereabouts PSU.

But with the 750ti having been superceded, has there been any replacement as frugal with it's power requirements that would be able to run within a budget i3 gaming system with a Corsair VS350 PSU?

We are talking 1080p gaming. A newer equivalent?
 
Was thinking that myself, seems more are out now, even an EVGA 950 SC Mini ITX model. Wondering how much better it performs too.

Anyone know of any maximum power draw tests and such. So far it looks like it draws 50% more wattage but not sure how that goes under full load. Has to be Mini ITX in length as it would be in the top section of a Phanteks Mini XL with a couple of optic drives and an IO box for the mini ITX build taking up space.

Idea is to slap it in a current MicroATX build with a Corsair VS350w PSU, and migrate it when I put the ITX stuff together with the Mini XL case additions. i3 Skylake or Haswell with and SSD and HDD, 8gb of memory and a 1080p display, but I want it to be as small and neat as possible, maybe even a Noctua HTPC style cooler.
 
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The 950 is clearly the more powerful card. It's generally in the same price bracket as the 750Ti was(like $10-20 more), but I still cant quite class them the same for two reasons:

1) The 950 uses a lot more power. It is a cut-down GM206(what the 960 is based on) and consumes nearly as much power as its bigger brother. Just a smidge less, but still some 70-80w more than the 750Ti.

2) It is not quite as bite-sized. It's not full-sized, but it's not this wee, compact little laddie that you can tuck in to pint size cases nice and worry free.

So for somebody with a 350w PSU, even a good one(do they make high quality 350w PSU's?), a 950 would probably be pushing things too much on the power limits. Get into 450w territory and it's a different story. Then a 950 is probably a clear winner, so long as you're not trying to do a console-like form factor case. It is about 50% faster in games than the 750Ti for nearly the same price(at time of release).

EDIT: After finding a review that says differently, a 950 is probably fine for a 350w PSU.
 
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P.B said:
Are these not a lot more expensive then the 750 was ?
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They're about the same price for a 750 ti on release, it was only later the price dropped to around £100. I wonder if someone will release a low profile version, now that would be excellent.
 
Well I am now thinking the old budget gaming heirachy has moved on, in the past it would have been a G3258 with the 750ti as the low power low cost go to.

That was pretty good considering cost and such a low power requirment. Skylake and i3 with a 950 would be current but is costing a lot more, I would have hoped with companies running for lowered power requirements that we would have seen a better gpu, similar efficiency with even less cable required.

An M.2 ssd with an old half height 750ti on the right build could be very small and possibly utilise even a 300w IFX psu with minimum cabling.

Would not mind something along those lines in the Mini XL.
 
So basically if you want Nvidia's fastest graphics card that can run off the pcie and needs no leads you are still looking at the 750ti.

It is a gutter they did not do something for that spot.
 
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Why would a 950 tax a 350w psu? I struggle to break 300w draw at the wall with a maxed out 970. That's with a stock i5, mind, but if you aren't going crazy over clocking a skylake then I can't see how it will crack 300w. Glad to be proven wrong though!
 
Do you already have the VS? They are cheap and nasty and the nastiest of the corsair lot, so I'd look at upgrading regardless
 
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Why would a 950 tax a 350w psu? I struggle to break 300w draw at the wall with a maxed out 970. That's with a stock i5, mind, but if you aren't going crazy over clocking a skylake then I can't see how it will crack 300w. Glad to be proven wrong though!
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You can do it. But I'm going off the assumption that a 350W PSU is probably some OEM piece of crap and thus you'd want a really healthy amount of headroom. I wouldn't feel comfortable, but it might be alright. I just dont like to play around with that kind of stuff when it comes to recommending things to others.

Actually, just found a review of a 950 that says total system draw was measured at 250w or so, including an OC'd 8 core CPU. So yea, probably do-able.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2015/08/20/nvidia-geforce-gtx-950-review-gigabyte/11
 
Just had a quick glance and the 950's I looked at all required additional power not just slot power which was the major differentiator for the 750Ti in being able to go into almost any system. I presume power draw on the 950 is way too high for a slot-only card so the 750Ti has no replacement yet :'(
 
Seanspeed said:
You can do it. But I'm going off the assumption that a 350W PSU is probably some OEM piece of crap and thus you'd want a really healthy amount of headroom. I wouldn't feel comfortable, but it might be alright. I just dont like to play around with that kind of stuff when it comes to recommending things to others.

Actually, just found a review of a 950 that says total system draw was measured at 250w or so, including an OC'd 8 core CPU. So yea, probably do-able.

http://www.bit-tech.net/hardware/graphics/2015/08/20/nvidia-geforce-gtx-950-review-gigabyte/11
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that's at the wall as well, so knock 10% off that figure and you're looking at 225w for a 950 and an i7-5960X at 4.2GHz. enough headroom for a half decent 350w psu.
 
The 750ti isn't a bad little card, I was expecting to have to dial down every setting and make the games look like 1980s arcades, but it was surprisingly capable and able to run games at a mix of 1080p and 1200p with a few settings up, obviously it won't run everything cranked but it may surprise you.
 
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Agggh just realised the shop site has changed! Geez its god damn awful to navigate. ie click clearance, then click audio and video expecting to see GPU's Sound Cards and you get a B Grade PC.

Gaggghhh
 
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