Graphics card! Gtx 760 Vs 770

[heartattack007]

hey everyone! back again for yet another question! so i upgraded my cpu to an i5 4460 from a g3220 and i currently have an EVGA 760 GTX graphics card, now i know my old processor bottlenecked it pretty badly but my question is should i also upgrade my gpu to a 770 GTX or stick with my 760? i game at 1920X1080 and i want to play games like evil within, shadows of mordor etc on about high settings, so should i upgrade?

 

[Gam3r01]

If you were to upgrade, a 770 wouldnt be an upgrade.
If you are satisfied, keep the 760. If you feel you want better performance, pick up a 970 or better.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

For the money the gtx 770 would cost i would keep the 760. If I may toss another option at you. Hold onto the money you were going to spend on the gtx 770, sell your gtx 760, and then you should have just about enough for a shiny new gtx 970.

 

[heartattack007]

oh yeah i probably should have mentioned that im within return time for the 760 so to jump up to the 770 it would only be a 30 dollar difference, still not worth it?

 

[Gam3r01]

Thats about 10-15% more performance for 30 bucks more. If you dont want to spend much it should be decently worthwhile.

 

[Ironsounds]

Hello... here is a general performance chart... http://www.videocardbenchmark.net/high_end_gpus.html

 

[heartattack007]

looking at the 970 i wouldnt mind one but sadly im sure i would bottleneck it and i probably also dont have a sufficient power supply for it

 

[Gam3r01]

The 4460 would be more than enough for the 970.
The 970 is also quite power friendly, what is your PSU?

 

[heartattack007]

600W thermal take power supply just got it too, i jumped up from a 430 corsair

 

[Gam3r01]

It should support the card fine, just know thermaltake does make some, for lack of a better term, sketchy units.
(Just replaced my TR2 finally)

 

[Alexdiaz]

I would save up just a bit and get a 970

 

[heartattack007]

good to know! so assuming i decide to just keep my 760 and save up for the 970 would i be okay to run the games i want on medium to high settings for now?

 

[mdocod]

I'm confused by this thread...

You own the CPU and GPU..... why not go play the games you want to play and find out if your hardware meets your performance and visual quality goals?

FYI: The GTX760 can play any game made at 60FPS. There's no performance issue there. Visual quality is inversely adjustable with frame rate in GPU bound workloads, so the GPU is never really a performance bottleneck until it is severely undersized.

 

[Gam3r01]

As an owner of a 760, it cant maintain 60 FPS anymore with most modern games.

 

[heartattack007]

well the main reason is that i dont have all of said games as of yet, right now the only next gen game i actually have is dragon age inquisition and i have about 2 weeks left to determine if i should just go with the 770 and hopefully future proof my self even if its only for another year or two

 

[mdocod]

As an owner of a 760, it cant maintain 60 FPS anymore with most modern games.

If you can't figure out how to get 60FPS out of your GTX760 in GPU bound conditions then you have an operator problem, not a GPU problem.

A GTX750 can play any game at 60FPS also.

 

[Gam3r01]

Dropping settings to get 60FPS really isnt playing the game by most standards.

 

[ohiou_grad_2006]

Just play your games and enjoy it. If you are getting more than 30 frames per second you are good.

 

[mdocod]

Dropping settings to get 60FPS really isnt playing the game by most standards.

I'm sorry, you can't imply that there's some visual quality "standard" and then base your position on it.

Visual quality on PC gaming can range from 720P to triple 4K resolution. I'd be willing to bet that YOUR standard is probably pretty close to the BOTTOM end of that range. Trying to arbitrarily claim that there's some "standard" down there somewhere that separates "playing the game" from "just checking out the game" or something is ridiculous.

A great gaming experience does not originate with visual quality, if it did, the vast majority of games every produced would have been absolute failures.

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