AMD HD 7750, good for gaming ?

[Fraxure13]

Hi, I am about to buy HD 7750 this week, or this coming wednesday.

I just wanna ask if it will be good for gaming at 1024x768?
Planning to play modern games on high-ultra (max if it can).

My specs :

i5 3470
4GB
Generic 700W psu

and btw the manufacturer of the card I will buy is PowerColor.

 

[Onus]

The Corsair CX line is not good; they were built with inferior Samxon capacitors that can't take heat and fail early. They would most likely be a lot better than what you have, but you'd need to plan on another replacement in a year or two.
The GTX750 and GTX750Ti are both stronger cards than the HD7750, and most versions of either one also do not need a PCIe power cable. A HD7770 / R7 250X uses something like 81W-85W, which barely needs the connector. If your PSU has one, it should be able to handle one of these cards; BUT the GTX750Ti is stronger than those too.

 

[hang-the-9]

A 7790 pulls 138 watts at load here is the review from here that shows it. http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/radeon-hd-7790-bonaire-performance,3462-10.html

Which would only leave 174 watts on the 12v rail for the rest of the system
-77 watts for the CPU and you have 97 watts for the rest of the system
Considering everything else I would say it is pushing it too far

It is although it would definitely run. It would be kind of risky though haha.

I am just gonna go for a hd 7750 and upgrade my ram or PSU,after that sell my GPU and buy a higher end GPU...

Just get a 750 Ti, it's faster than the 7750, and won't need any other upgrades and you are not bying a video card twice. Unless you really want to run the demanding games on high settings on high resolutions, then you'd want a power supply upgrade to run a faster card. The 750 Ti is ranked 43 among video cards in PassMark, the 7750 is 120 which is a pretty big difference. Radeon 7790 is slower than the 750 Ti (that is ranked 61), so it's a waste to upgrade the power supply to get it. Just get the 750 Ti.

 

[Onus]

Were this thread not still active, I'd be inclined to mark that^ as the BA.

 

[Fraxure13]

The Corsair CX line is not good; they were built with inferior Samxon capacitors that can't take heat and fail early. They would most likely be a lot better than what you have, but you'd need to plan on another replacement in a year or two.
The GTX750 and GTX750Ti are both stronger cards than the HD7750, and most versions of either one also do not need a PCIe power cable. A HD7770 / R7 250X uses something like 81W-85W, which barely needs the connector. If your PSU has one, it should be able to handle one of these cards; BUT the GTX750Ti is stronger than those too.

I would gladly buy the GTX 750 Ti, but it needs a 6pin power connector which my current PSU don't have. But the GTX 750 Non-Ti don't have power connector, but I am worried that my PSU won't handle it... (because its generic)

edit :
all the GTX 750 ti in my local store requires a 6 pin power connector.

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EDIT :
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I just found a GTX 750 Ti with no need for a power connector.... the question now is will my PSU provide enought power ?

 

[hang-the-9]

There are only a few watts difference between a 750 and a 750 Ti, less than 10. You will be fine with a non-external power 750 Ti.

Although it may be a good idea to get even a $40 quality power supply in the 400 watt range to replace yours just because it will be better for the system overall.

 

[Fraxure13]

There are only a few watts difference between a 750 and a 750 Ti, less than 10. You will be fine with a non-external power 750 Ti.

Although it may be a good idea to get even a $40 quality power supply in the 400 watt range to replace yours just because it will be better for the system overall.

Wait just to make it clear.. I will be safe with the GTX running on my rig, and will not die because of my stupid PSU ?

 

[hang-the-9]

There are only a few watts difference between a 750 and a 750 Ti, less than 10. You will be fine with a non-external power 750 Ti.

Although it may be a good idea to get even a $40 quality power supply in the 400 watt range to replace yours just because it will be better for the system overall.

Wait just to make it clear.. I will be safe with the GTX running on my rig, and will not die because of my stupid PSU ?

If by GTX you mean the 750Ti, yes it will run fine on your current power supply. GTX has a lot of different model ranges so you can't just say "GTX".