Is it worth upgrading

[Jesse_E]

Hello I have the following question, is it worth to sell my r7 260x and buy a GTX 960 as an upgrade, I can't buy an r9 280 because I only have an 430w psu.

 

[drkatz42]

IMO...this would be a reasonable upgrade.

 

[Sig2525]

it would be a great upgrade over your 260x. but what about that psu? what exact model?

 

[Jesse_E]

it would be a great upgrade over your 260x. but what about that psu? what exact model?

corsair CX430 v2

 

[Jesse_E]

btw I'm asking this because some people in the youtube comment section said that this decision is really stupid and I should just buy a r9 280 even with the psu I currently own

 

[renz496]

960 was supposed to be faster than 280. 3gb seems attractive but sometimes i see that that extra VRAM only useful for games that really VRAM hungry. Instead of very old tahiti you should probably get cards like 290/290X.

 

[Jesse_E]

960 was supposed to be faster than 280. 3gb seems attractive but sometimes i see that that extra VRAM only useful for games that really VRAM hungry. Instead of very old tahiti you should probably get cards like 290/290X.

So in conclusion just buy a EVGA GeForce GTX 960 - SuperSC ACX 2.0+ - 2GB GDDR5 and upgrade again in two years when or AMD or Nvidia have made a new Graphic cards series. Also one more question I currently have an athlon x4 750k clocked at 3,9ghz is this enough for the GTX 960 or should I clock it i little bit higher to 4ghz?

 

[renz496]

Clock the cpu as high as you can.

 

[Sig2525]

i'd get the 960 - even with 430 watts it will still run but be careful not to oc too much or not to oc at all because that 430 is already the minimum for a gtx 960.

 

[Jesse_E]

i'd get the 960 - even with 430 watts it will still run but be careful not to oc too much or not to oc at all because that 430 is already the minimum for a gtx 960.

I know that's why i'm thinkg of only overclocking from 3,9ghz to 4,2 ghz but it won't be needed if there's no big bottleneck. but I don't know what to think of the athlon x4 750k

 

[Sig2525]

bottleneck will only occur on games that uses more cpu power like crysis 3 but it wont bottleneck that much - and even of you overlock the x4 750k it won't do much. a 300mhz oc will not do that much.

any way with that setup you can pretty much play any game on high with some ultra.

 

[Jesse_E]

bottleneck will only occur on games that uses more cpu power like crysis 3 but it wont bottleneck that much - and even of you overlock the x4 750k it won't do much. a 300mhz oc will not do that much.

any way with that setup you can pretty much play any game on high with some ultra.

Nice that´s good to hear because that´s where I was worried that I would waste my money on buying a GPU that wouldn´t make much difference