Upgrading graphics card
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Rage_3K_Moiz
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Jad Chaar
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They wont bottleneck the card as bad as something like a Core 2 Duo.
Since the i5 is a quad core, you should be fine, just OC like Rage said.
What is your budget for the GPU? What games do you plan on playing?
Jad Chaar
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The GTX 760 probably cant play BF4 at max settings at launch, but once the drivers mature, it may be able to. You will have to wait till benchmarks are released to be sure. I would recommend a GTX 770, but that is $400. That would play BF4 at max settings (I am speculating, but looking at current games, it seems accurate). I recommend investing $35 into a Hyper 212 Evo CPU Cooler so that you can OC your CPU.
GhostRyder
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At the budget of 3-350 dollars you can get a HD 7970 by gigabyte that has their 3 fan cooler and starting at 1ghz Here. Or if you want to save a little more, the Powercolor one is cheaper Here (Though I would get the gigabyte one personally). With a game like BF4, playing at max will be difficult until the driver optimization like JC713 said however the Demo shown at E3 had it running ultra with 2 HD 7970's (Meaning with one you should get pretty good FPS on high to close to ultra range) along with Tomb Raider running pretty well on one of those cards. As for Assasins creed, it is optimized for the NVidia platform, but one 7970 will be enough to get you good FPS in it (Its really only CFX where it gives issues).
That's my recommendation, the HD 7970 performs on par with a GTX 770 and over a GTX 760 in benchmarking and has high overclockability.
That's my recommendation, the HD 7970 performs on par with a GTX 770 and over a GTX 760 in benchmarking and has high overclockability.
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