New GPU and PSU Advice

[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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Looking in side the PC I think there will be plenty of room. The card I'm looking at is quoted as being 28cm long, a quick measure inside the case and I have 33cm of space.

Some pics here

[Cmdr Kharma]

You should be OK then.....Mine is specced at 270mm and stretches about 10mm over the width of the Mobo......

Just found out fans are not even running when just surfing.....

[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

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.

I hope they will optimize it. My Mobo is small only with one PCI-E slot (I was using it as a HyperV replica server before I decided to drop the replicas, strap the 970 on it and use it to play Elite...) so I don't want to buy an entirely PC in order to SLI

[pargyrak]

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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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Looking in side the PC I think there will be plenty of room. The card I'm looking at is quoted as being 28cm long, a quick measure inside the case and I have 33cm of space.

Some pics here

Check that the width is ok too and that there is space for the card to breath.

I have mine in a MiniITX case http://www.coolermaster.com/case/mini-itx/haf915r/
but is quite long plus the PSU and the disks are on a second MiniITX case, stacked

[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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Looking in side the PC I think there will be plenty of room. The card I'm looking at is quoted as being 28cm long, a quick measure inside the case and I have 33cm of space.

Some pics here

Check that the width is ok too and that there is space for the card to breath.

I have mine in a MiniITX case http://www.coolermaster.com/case/mini-itx/haf915r/
but is quite long plus the PSU and the disks are on a second MiniITX case, stacked

Yep, think it's fine, we'll find out tomorrow when it arrives

[Dudley]

https://youtu.be/a9Fpul2kfhA - my powerpack..!

[Xebeth]

So after only a relatively small amount of swearing, and a few minor 'tweaks' to the back of my case with a large pair of cutters, I am now the proud owner of a new 750w PSU and a shiny new GTX970 GPU

[TorTorden]

So after only a relatively small amount of swearing, and a few minor 'tweaks' to the back of my case with a large pair of cutters, I am now the proud owner of a new 750w PSU and a shiny new GTX970 GPU

Mazel tov

[pargyrak]

Enjoy!

[Cmdr Kharma]

You'll love it.....

Max them settings baby......