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Offline Hajo

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Re: Video card suggestion
« Reply #30 on: September 16, 2014, 04:10:12 PM »
Del.....I just purchased and installed an EVGA GeForce GTX 750 Ti.  Was on sale at best buy for 170 dollars.

Spectacular performance and very good price.

Morfiend saw the results in our Alpha Testing reports.

I was using and NVidia Geforce 630 GT.  The difference between the two were immense.
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Re: Video card suggestion
« Reply #31 on: September 16, 2014, 04:54:22 PM »
GTX 460 was new when this computer was built. Probably around $200.

I paid over 300 for mine around the time they came out.


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Re: Video card suggestion
« Reply #32 on: September 22, 2014, 08:48:05 PM »
I found the same ram I currently have for $35, low voltage and everything. I through in 3 more sticks so I have 12gig of ram total.

Should I have any problem running any video cards, power supply wise? Here are the three I'm looking at...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130949

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121837

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121878
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Re: Video card suggestion
« Reply #33 on: September 23, 2014, 02:14:15 PM »
I found the same ram I currently have for $35, low voltage and everything. I through in 3 more sticks so I have 12gig of ram total.

Should I have any problem running any video cards, power supply wise? Here are the three I'm looking at...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130949

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121837

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814121878


Del  I had a GeForce 630 GT in my box.  My Box had a 350 watt power supply.  Not enough for the cards you list or the GTX 750 Ti I purchased.

I installed a new power supply at Morfiends suggestion.  I upgraded to a 750 watt Corsair Power supply.

If you plan on running Sli (which some of the cards you posted were able to do) if your PS is 500 watts or under, I would suggest a PS upgrade.

If you do I would suggest 750 watts or greater.
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Re: Video card suggestion
« Reply #34 on: October 04, 2014, 11:17:40 PM »
I have the following outputs on my power supply.

+3.3@30A,+5V@28A,+12V1@18A,+12V2@18A,+12V3@18A,+12V4@18A,-12V@0.8A,+5VSB@3A

Am I to assume that if a video card requires 42Amps, the best my 750W power supply can put out on those 2 rails is 36 (18x2)Amps?

The video card looks like it only has two plugs on it, hence the 2 rails mentioned above.
 
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I found an air leak in my inflatable sheep and plugged the hole! Honest!