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Will this Graphics Card support my PC AND improve my gaming performace

TannerStaheli

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May 6, 2014
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The 770 is a really solid purchase, but to be perfectly honest, it's not a great buy for your PC. Your CPU (you didn't specify, but this goes for any of the options in that HP) is 7 years old at this point and most of the 770's performance will simply be wasted. The other issue is that in a ready-made mass-market PC like this that isn't really designed for gaming, you almost certainly have the ancient, 300W, bargain basement PSU that it came with (hp's site doesn't specify, but this is nearly a certainty), so the 770 wouldn't even be an option without a PSU switch.

Short of starting to put together a new build, your best bet to eke out more performance is probably a 750 Ti, given that you won't need an auxiliary connector.
The 770 is a really solid purchase, but to be perfectly honest, it's not a great buy for your PC. Your CPU (you didn't specify, but this goes for any of the options in that HP) is 7 years old at this point and most of the 770's performance will simply be wasted. The other issue is that in a ready-made mass-market PC like this that isn't really designed for gaming, you almost certainly have the ancient, 300W, bargain basement PSU that it came with (hp's site doesn't specify, but this is nearly a certainty), so the 770 wouldn't even be an option without a PSU switch.

Short of starting to put together a new build, your best bet to eke out more performance is probably a 750 Ti, given that you won't need an auxiliary connector.
 
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