Upgrading 2nd card and PSU upgrade?

[drakesparda]

In my rig I currently have a GTX650 Ti and a cheap Geforce 210 in my system with a 500W corsair PSU. The 210 is basically just to view videos on my TV as I have a 3 monitor setup on the 650. Since I have my TV connected to the 210 I cannot play games on it if I wanted to.

To resolve this I want to upgrade the 210 to a better card, preferably an upgrade in comparison to the 650. I was looking at possibly a 660 (or 760 from EVGA b-stock), or possibly a r9 270x. So the first question is which should I go for? Stick with nvidia or go with a better card in the 270x but face possible driver issues? Also regardless of which I go for do I need to upgrade my PSU?

FYI: My motherboard does not support SLI (only crossfire). I have a FX-8320 with 3 HDDs and an SSD with a DVDRW a 4 case fans. I am not hooking up my TV to the 650 cause it only has 1 hdmi port and that is being used on my main monitor and the TV only supports HDMI.

Thanks!

 

[ahmad01000]

I became confused reading it and wanted to cry but after reading it a couple more times I thought of the best thing, I was trying to understand how you could have a 210 and 650 ti, and also have a 3 monitor setup?

 

[drakesparda]

I became confused reading it and wanted to cry but after reading it a couple more times I thought of the best thing, I was trying to understand how you could have a 210 and 650 ti, and also have a 3 monitor setup?

Technically I have a 3 monitor setup plus a TV. The 650 Ti has 3 outputs (1 mini hdmi and 2 dvis) and then the geforce 210 has an HDMI slot for the tv. The 210 is just in another pcie slot dedicated for the TV right now.

 

[jossrik]

Stick with NVidia. Like in ghostbusters, crossing the streams is bad. Can you get it to work? Hell Ya, lots of people have. Will it work right new outta the box? Dunno. Might. Personally, if you don't feel any affinity towards one or the other team, stick with what you all ready have in your system. It'll make things easier on you in the long run. Keep us updated.

 

[drakesparda]

Stick with NVidia. Like in ghostbusters, crossing the streams is bad. Can you get it to work? Hell Ya, lots of people have. Will it work right new outta the box? Dunno. Might. Personally, if you don't feel any affinity towards one or the other team, stick with what you all ready have in your system. It'll make things easier on you in the long run. Keep us updated.

That is what I am thinking as well. I am more worried about the PSU being enough or if I need to upgrade that at the same time as well.

 

[jossrik]

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