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highonpop
Eve Liberation Force
Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2012.09.18 16:09:00 -
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Being on a budget, I've never been able to spring for an expensive video card. (It took me months to decide to finally get this one) The card I have right now is a crappy XFX Radeon HD 4670. It was bought as a quick-fix to replace a dead card. I purchased it on a whim without doing enough research and I was very upset when I got it. I have been upset with it for about a year and a half, it shuts off ALL THE TIME. It wont run DX11 and I can barely run EVE on the lowest possible settings with all effects off.
Enough is enough, I finally convinced myself I needed a new card, after a bit of internal kicking and screaming ...
What I have: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814150450
What I just got: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814130664
I hear good things about the GeFroce GTX 560 and EVE. A corpmate of mine runs the 460 and loves it.
Any feedback on using this card with EVE? I know it isnt the best card by a very very very long shot, but its 1000000x better than my current card. I would at least like to be able to turn on missile/turret/ship effects...
This is going in an old XP rig. It will be here in 2-3 days, we'll see.
http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Very%20best%20of%20Makalu%20Zarya
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Acid Kanshi
Red Federation
RvB - RED Federation
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Posted - 2012.09.18 18:39:00 -
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If it shuts off all the time, have you thought maybe your PSU is not powerful enough?
You can confirm that with the new card tho. If your PC will start to turn off with new card as well, then yeah.
EVE-Cost is a manufacturing tool for EVE players.
http://www.eve-cost.eu |
highonpop
Eve Liberation Force
Fatal Ascension
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Posted - 2012.09.18 18:53:00 -
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Acid Kanshi wrote:If it shuts off all the time, have you thought maybe your PSU is not powerful enough?
You can confirm that with the new card tho. If your PC will start to turn off with new card as well, then yeah.
I have a 700W PSU, I really never thought about that being the problem, but I guess it could be. However, regardles of PSU, the card I have now barely runs on all low settings with all effects and every check box in regards to graphics and effects all turned off. Everything is off. I can't run at any lower graphics settings and my current card still only runs ~15-20fps. Its really bad.
If it is my PSU, I dont have a problem getting a new one, but I thought 700W was plenty. Teh card only requires like 300 or 400 at max usage.
I purchased the current card and PSU the same day. I had a 9800gt, but it melted (sad panda) running on a 280W PSU before.
PS: My PC never turns off. Just the video card.
http://www.soundboard.com/sb/Very%20best%20of%20Makalu%20Zarya
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Acid Kanshi
Red Federation
RvB - RED Federation
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Posted - 2012.09.19 06:18:00 -
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700W is definitely enough yes.
EVE-Cost is a manufacturing tool for EVE players.
http://www.eve-cost.eu |
AzAkiR NaLDa
Real Simple Construction
Elemental Tide
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Posted - 2012.09.20 16:15:00 -
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1 small tip dont get a 560 but try and run for a 560 Ti.
the reason for that is that the 560 is just a slightly overclocked 460 card while the 560 Ti is the true 500 serie and is alot stronger.
the 560 Ti is really nice value |
Cyerus
Galactic Dominion
Eternal Strife
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Posted - 2012.09.20 22:21:00 -
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Nobody has mentioned this yet, so I thought I should.
Upgrading your videocard seems like a good idea in most cases, but don't forget the CPU can be bottlenecking your gaming performance aswell. Even though you overclocked (or did asin the past) your videocard to hopefully gain maximum performance, it could still be that the slowest component in your computer is the CPU. In that case a new videocard will not increase general performance.
Would you mind posting your computer specifications, mostly about memory, CPU and motherboard?
Another thing you might want to consider GTX 660, which has been released in the last 2 weeks. |
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