Can i use a 960

[Dean_15]

i was wondering if i can use a EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SSC GAMING ACX 2.0+ here are my current specs
AMD Athlon X4 760K
MSI A78M-E35
Sapphire Radeon R7 260X
8GB Crucial Ballistix Sport
1TB Western Digital Black
430W Corsair CX430
Corsair SPEC-01
thanks is advanced

 

[PokerTroller]

Yes, you can use a GTX 960 in your system. Your motherboard has a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. And also, NVIDIA's website recommends a 400-watt PSU. You have a 430-watt PSU so you are fine.

 

[Dean_15]

Yes, you can use a GTX 960 in your system. Your motherboard has a PCIe 3.0 x16 slot. And also, NVIDIA's website recommends a 400-watt PSU. You have a 430-watt PSU so you are fine.

oh ok thanks

 

[hang-the-9]

If you are running slow in games, your CPU is as much of an issue as the video card. The X4 will bottleneck the 960 in any modern game that wants a decent CPU.

 

[Dean_15]

If you are running slow in games, your CPU is as much of an issue as the video card. The X4 will bottleneck the 960 in any modern game that wants a decent CPU.

so what processor should i get?

 

[hang-the-9]

If you are running slow in games, your CPU is as much of an issue as the video card. The X4 will bottleneck the 960 in any modern game that wants a decent CPU.

so what processor should i get?

You really can't go any faster with your platform, you'd have to change to either an AMD AM3+ socket and get an FX 8xxx CPU or go with an Intel CPU (recommended).

But first you need to figure out why you are trying to upgrade and for what, what games and what settings. Look for benchmarks and see how things run on your CPU vs others.

Going by just overall specs though, if you go with a GTX 960 you will have some headroom to get a faster CPU to run at higher FPS of higher settings. Your CPU is not what I'd call bad though, just not for running on high settings in modern games without stutter. It should handle any game at low or even medium depending on the resolution.

 

[Forgotten031511]

Yes, you can use a GTX 960. Your CPU will bottleneck the GTX 960 as shared above.

We all really need your intended use of this system to better give you an idea if the GTX 960 is a good idea or not.

Also, if you upgrade your CPU you'll need a new MB as well...most likely new RAM and PSU too. So if you want to upgrade, I'd plan on a entire system upgrade since you'll basically be doing that in the end. Much cheaper to do that from the start then get it piece by piece just to run into this type of issue later on again.

 

[Dean_15]

Yes, you can use a GTX 960. Your CPU will bottleneck the GTX 960 as shared above.

We all really need your intended use of this system to better give you an idea if the GTX 960 is a good idea or not.

Also, if you upgrade your CPU you'll need a new MB as well...most likely new RAM and PSU too. So if you want to upgrade, I'd plan on a entire system upgrade since you'll basically be doing that in the end. Much cheaper to do that from the start then get it piece by piece just to run into this type of issue later on again.

so your just saying i should build a whole new pc?

 

[Epicness937]

Yes, you can use a GTX 960. Your CPU will bottleneck the GTX 960 as shared above.

We all really need your intended use of this system to better give you an idea if the GTX 960 is a good idea or not.

Also, if you upgrade your CPU you'll need a new MB as well...most likely new RAM and PSU too. So if you want to upgrade, I'd plan on a entire system upgrade since you'll basically be doing that in the end. Much cheaper to do that from the start then get it piece by piece just to run into this type of issue later on again.

so your just saying i should build a whole new pc?

building a new pc is a idea
i would reuse the hard drive case and ram and get a new motherboard and cpu and a new psu

 

[Dean_15]

Yes, you can use a GTX 960. Your CPU will bottleneck the GTX 960 as shared above.

We all really need your intended use of this system to better give you an idea if the GTX 960 is a good idea or not.

Also, if you upgrade your CPU you'll need a new MB as well...most likely new RAM and PSU too. So if you want to upgrade, I'd plan on a entire system upgrade since you'll basically be doing that in the end. Much cheaper to do that from the start then get it piece by piece just to run into this type of issue later on again.

so your just saying i should build a whole new pc?

building a new pc is a idea
i would reuse the hard drive case and ram and get a new motherboard and cpu and a new psu

any ideas for a cpu, mb, and psu?

 

[ChairmanSaab]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($119.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($70.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($226.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $477.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-01 16:54 EDT-0400

 

[Dean_15]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($119.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($70.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($226.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $477.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-01 16:54 EDT-0400

how about a i5?

 

[Epicness937]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($119.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($70.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($226.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $477.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-01 16:54 EDT-0400

how about a i5?

how much would you want to spend?

 

[Dean_15]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($119.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($70.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($226.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $477.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-01 16:54 EDT-0400

how about a i5?

how much would you want to spend?

like 550 to 600

 

[Epicness937]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($119.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($70.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($226.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $477.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-01 16:54 EDT-0400

how about a i5?

how much would you want to spend?

like 550 to 600

then get a 970 if thats your budget
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LYtz8d
that comes to 630 which is a bit over what you want if you are ok with amd get this
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xMKvwP
you could replace the card for a 960 but in your budget i would highly recommend a 970 over a 960

 

[Dean_15]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($119.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($70.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($226.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $477.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-01 16:54 EDT-0400

how about a i5?

how much would you want to spend?

like 550 to 600

then get a 970 if thats your budget
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LYtz8d
that comes to 630 which is a bit over what you want if you are ok with amd get this
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xMKvwP
you could replace the card for a 960 but in your budget i would highly recommend a 970 over a 960

sounds good thanks

 

[Epicness937]

PCPartPicker part list / Price breakdown by merchant

CPU: Intel Core i3-4170 3.7GHz Dual-Core Processor ($119.88 @ OutletPC)
Motherboard: Gigabyte GA-B85M-D3H Micro ATX LGA1150 Motherboard ($70.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Video Card: EVGA GeForce GTX 960 4GB SuperSC ACX 2.0+ Video Card ($226.99 @ NCIX US)
Power Supply: SeaSonic 520W 80+ Bronze Certified Fully-Modular ATX Power Supply ($59.99 @ SuperBiiz)
Total: $477.85
Prices include shipping, taxes, and discounts when available
Generated by PCPartPicker 2016-05-01 16:54 EDT-0400

how about a i5?

how much would you want to spend?

like 550 to 600

then get a 970 if thats your budget
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/LYtz8d
that comes to 630 which is a bit over what you want if you are ok with amd get this
http://pcpartpicker.com/p/xMKvwP
you could replace the card for a 960 but in your budget i would highly recommend a 970 over a 960

sounds good thanks

your welcome let me know how it goes