New GPU and PSU Advice

[Feldspar]

So now I am starting to worry that I may have an issue with my GPU. GTX 650. I currently run custom @ 1080 and get 66-80 in normal space, little lower in SC when its crowded. RES i am about 50-60 and 40-45 in stations.

Do I need to do the same and throw $$$ at it as well?

That sounds fine to me, but wait until horizons is out and if you don't think it is coping then have a look to see if there are any deals post-Christmas.

[TorTorden]

The 900 series is very energy efficient so a 500watt psu just might be enough, by a very thin hair, especially if its a undersized Dell psu, might be it can mostly yield 400 watts and a very short burst at 500 watts, they can still legally call it a 500 watt psu.

I am more worried about the dell side of things, they where in my more active days notorious for being utterly incompatible with off the shelf hardware, inow they wherent ATX compliant, some models had odd shaped motherboards, psu's even RAM chips where non-standard.
Working in a tech hardware support back then I remember all to well having young kids and their frustrated mothers almost weeping because Dell was freaking assholes when designing hardware.

For 1080p gaming my 960 2GB has been quite fine, even horizons at medium to high settings would get 40-50 fps on surface.
Its only after getting a 3440x1440 screen it gets below par but only near surfaces, I would have to scale back resolution to get what I call playable fps, and say 1080p stretched out looked like crap on that 34" screen, especially when I know it can look so much better.

If you can I would recommend you open your machine and try taking some snapshots and post up on imgur and link here before spending any money and even if the 900 gen is low on power even the 960 is a freaking huge card, the 970 even bigger than that.

They will of course launch a new Gen some time next year, I'm predicting around spring time (with the vive/oculus launch) so there might be more discounts after new years.

[Cmdr Kharma]

Oh The great days of Dell....

Fecking Rambus and the Psu's that swapped a pin....So if you used an off the shelf one it would not work.....

And yes...The 970 is BIG.....

[Xebeth]

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If you can I would recommend you open your machine and try taking some snapshots and post up on imgur and link here before spending any money and even if the 900 gen is low on power even the 960 is a freaking huge card, the 970 even bigger than that.

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Good idea, a job for tomorrow

[HazCat]

That's a great power supply - have it in my box right now, supplies a fairly well laden set of extras (including SSD and regular SATA drives) and a Dual-X R9 270X card with no issues. Plus more than a couple laden USB 2 and 3 ports, a X-52 pro and...

You can't go wrong with it.

[pargyrak]

I am running a GTX970 with an i7 4790 16Gb of RAM 2 SSDs and a 7200 rpm HDD on a 750 Cooler Master PSU without any issues.
The 970 drives a 27" 2560*1440 (Display port) and a 21" 1920*1080 (HDMI) MoBo is a Z97 WiFi MiniATX

So I doubt you will have an issues with power

With Horizons coming out next week I was thinking for a GTX 980 but too much money is involved

[Roger Wilco Jr]

Oh The great days of Dell....

Just who do they think they are - Packard Bell?

I know I'm dating myself there - you too, if you get the reference.

[TorTorden]

I am running a GTX970 with an i7 4790 16Gb of RAM 2 SSDs and a 7200 rpm HDD on a 750 Cooler Master PSU without any issues.
The 970 drives a 27" 2560*1440 (Display port) and a 21" 1920*1080 (HDMI) MoBo is a Z97 WiFi MiniATX

So I doubt you will have an issues with power

With Horizons coming out next week I was thinking for a GTX 980 but too much money is involved

I think Horizons need some further optimisation,
I just got a 6Gb 980ti today (yeah I have a little sticker shock)
And was getting 45-55fps on surface after I turned off Anti aliasing.
Granted that's on ultra. The 970 should be more than fine if you can live without AA and maybe dropping some settings down.
But that's only until they manage to optimize further.

Using gpu-z though my 980 was basically at 98% load. VRam use was a little shy of 4GB. So not really a wonder my 2gig 960 was struggling but it was suprisingly ok in 1080p at medium to high settings I was getting fps in the 50's.

At the native res of my new screen however I was barely getting 30 fps..
only way to get more fps was to drop resolution.

[Cmdr Kharma]

Oh The great days of Dell....

Just who do they think they are - Packard Bell?

I know I'm dating myself there - you too, if you get the reference.

Oooooo Yes......Another name that makes me shudder.....

[TorTorden]

Oh The great days of Dell....

Just who do they think they are - Packard Bell?

I know I'm dating myself there - you too, if you get the reference.

Oooooo Yes......Another name that makes me shudder.....

I got another one for you.

Compaq.
I sadly was the ovner of one of these