[SOLVED] What is the maximum graphics card can my rig handle

remos2010

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Hello guys,
I was thinking of upgrading my graphics card , so what is the maximum graphics card , nvidia or amd , can my rig handle and do you recommend to change any other component other the graphics card so there’s no bottleneck issue ? , my current rig :
CPU : i5-3570
Board: B75.M gigabyte
RAM : G.Skill 2x4 Gb 1600 DDR3
GPU : GTX 760 Gigabyte 2GB
PSW : Seasonic Eco 500
Case : Corsair 550D
HDD :Western Digital (WD) Caviar BLUE WD10EZEX 1TB SATA 6Gb/s 7200 RPM 64MB Cache HDD
 
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The 1050ti is too small of an upgrade. You are about maxed already. You may be able to get a 1060 but many games will bottleneck from a stock sb/ib. My 2500k has to be oced to run a 1060. 8gb ram is still fine.

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I don’t wanna crossfire
I will replace the current one , but i wanna know if I replaced the current graphics card with like GTX 1050 ti , will the ram and the processor and also the motherboard handle it ?
 


The main slot for the graphics card is a PCI Express x 16 slot. But if you have two graphics cards installed the second PCI Express x 16 slot will fall to 4X instead. This is because there is a limited number of PCI lanes in this motherboard. And it isn't really configured to run two graphics cards at 16x or both at 8x.
 


Then you are only limited by the 500 watt power supply. A GTX 1060 OR GTX 1070 would work. On the AMD SIDE A RX580 OR RX590 would work. But note all of these are recommended at 500 watts, there is no headroom at all.