oh dear...770 gaming from msi is dead, returned for full price

[William Longstreet]

OK so as my title reads my MSI 770 is dead...🙁

I need a new card in the 400$ range.

Res: 1080P

PS: I often bring my rig to parties to play games in3d on buddies Sony 3d TV.

My system has a I5 4670k at stock. 8 gigs of ram.

Would like to put a water block on my GPU though.
Crosair H100 or something.


I would like 4gb but not nessacary microcenter has them at 50 off but no 4gb.

I play batman Markham city, all cod modern warfare series &bo2, civ 5, Sims 3 mine craft with shaders mod. GTA 4, planet side 2, getting bf4. And cod ghosts. The walking dead, resident evil 6, BioShock inf. And more to come.


I have a 750 watt PSU from crosair, my gd65 has 3 PCI 3 slots.

Thanks a million

 

[sam_p_lay]

That sucks. Would you buy another GTX770? Gigabyte's Windforce GTX770 is pretty sweet!

 

[William Longstreet]

That sucks. Would you buy another GTX770? Gigabyte's Windforce GTX770 is pretty sweet!

I'm considering getting a 660 3gb and dumping extra cash into ssd

 

[sam_p_lay]

Not a bad idea. You'd probably be fine with a 2GB model unless they're similarly priced. What SSD did you have in mind?

 

[akk86]

The sweet spot would be the Asus HD7950-DC2T-3GD5 V2, solid performer for the price.

 

[sam_p_lay]

If he has money for a 7950, he's better getting a GTX760 (cheaper and faster). Though I'd personally recommend GTX660 + SSD - really good idea for strong performance all-round - not just in framerates.

 

[William Longstreet]

If he has money for a 7950, he's better getting a GTX760 (cheaper and faster). Though I'd personally recommend GTX660 + SSD - really good idea for strong performance all-round - not just in framerates.

my big thing with a 660 is that ill have enough for a 128gig SSD and another 8x2gig kit, bringing me up to s24 gb of ram

 

[William Longstreet]

If he has money for a 7950, he's better getting a GTX760 (cheaper and faster). Though I'd personally recommend GTX660 + SSD - really good idea for strong performance all-round - not just in framerates.

my big thing with a 660 is that ill have enough for a 128gig SSD and another 8x2gig kit, bringing me up to s24 gb of ram

 

[sam_p_lay]

What are you planning to use 24GB for? You know that will improve your framerate from 51.6fps with 4GB right up to 51.6fps? Big RAM won't benefit gaming or any normal system use.

 

[William Longstreet]

What are you planning to use 24GB for? You know that will improve your framerate from 51.6fps with 4GB right up to 51.6fps? Big RAM won't benefit gaming or any normal system use.

read the artical on can adding ram improve your ssd's preformance

more ram means less writes to ssd....longer lasting nand on ssd

 

[sam_p_lay]

Ah yeah I saw that. It did make me think about the value of adding a load of RAM... I avoid unnecessary wear on my SSD, though I know I should relax. They're rated to last well over a decade even with fairly heavy use.