• Some users have recently had their accounts hijacked. It seems that the now defunct EVGA forums might have compromised your password there and seems many are using the same PW here. We would suggest you UPDATE YOUR PASSWORD and TURN ON 2FA for your account here to further secure it. None of the compromised accounts had 2FA turned on.
    Once you have enabled 2FA, your account will be updated soon to show a badge, letting other members know that you use 2FA to protect your account. This should be beneficial for everyone that uses FSFT.

GTX 460 worth upgrading to?

C

CorNut

Limp Gawd
Joined
Dec 14, 2005
Messages
269
With this GTX 460 superclocked on sale today for $120 after rebate it makes it an affordable video card for me. The system it would be going in is an E8400 (LGA 775) in a Gigabyte P35 MB with 4gb (2x2gb) XMS DDR2 800 running w7 HP x64. The card it would be replacing is a Palit 9600GT 512mb. Would the 460 be a huge improvement or would the machine be bottlenecked by other things? The 9600GT works fine on this machine for most games but since I have started playing some Cliffs of Dover I have to turn the graphics on it way down to even be able to play it. Should I just go ahead and upgrade everything on this machine or would that be a worthy upgrade? I know it's "better" but is it going to be like night/day? thanks
 
I would do it if your psu can handle it. An E8400 with 4gb ram is decent and the 9600GT doesn't quite cut it for gaming these days.
 
resolution needs to be known here too.

and Cliffs of Dover is a flight sim so your cpu is probably going to be the bottleneck there. in fact an i5 quad or Phenom X4 is actually recommended for that game.
 
currently an OCZ500SXS but I actually have a BNIB Seasonic X750. I have the power supply waiting for my next build which should happen sometime this year, I bought a new Antec Three Hundred case too, I'm just waiting to see what the bulldozer brings to the table before rebuilding. I recently built a 1090t system for a friend with dual 6850's which is a nice pc but I'd hate to build one for myself without seeing what the new cpu's do first.

If I buy this 460 that's on sale I would probably even put the build off longer until Intel comes out with their new CPU since the bulldozer wouldn't support SLI and I'd hate to drop $120 on this card then basically throw it away in a few months if I wanted to build on the AM3+ platform, hope this makes sense?
 
CorNut said:
sorry didn't think about that, I have an Acer AL2223W 22" @ 1680x1050
Click to expand...
thanks. look at my edited post about the game you play because it recommends a quad.

and btw Bulldozer will support sli. I would just go sandy bridge 2500k right now if you can.
 
cannondale06 said:
thanks. look at my edited post about the game you play because it recommends a quad.
Click to expand...

I really wish these new CPU's were out lol, I'm trying to put off upgrading until this summer with the bulldozer or this fall with intel's new cpu. If upgrading cpu is most important with flight sims I guess I'll just have to pass on this card and wait for an AMD card to go on sale because I want the option to crossfire/SLI and I don't think I can put off upgrading CPU til the new intel's come out because I really want to be able to play Cliffs of Dover smoothly.
 
why do you need SLI at all? just get Sandy Bridge cpu and if you want SLI so bad then get a mobo with the nf200 for full 16x lanes in SLI.
 
I do wan't crossfire or SLI capability, I have the PSU for it so why not? especially with how efficient the SLI/Crossfire is becoming. I know I can get a sandy now, but then when bulldozer comes out I may be disappointed. I guess it's hard to let ya see it how I'm seeing it in my head lol.What I think I'm gonna do is just suck it up and play on crappy graphics until the bulldozer comes out since upgrading CPU is important. Basically that's why I posted, was wondering if the rest of my system is going to bottleneck it if I got the 460 which it will, I guess CPU is really important with that flight sim so I'm going to upgrade to the first new cpu that comes out being the bulldozer so I'm putting this purchase off and waiting for an amd video card to go on sale. Thanks for the info though, seriously. You helped me decide it wasn't the greatest upgrade for my goals since CPU is a huge bottleneck and I want to upgrade CPU but want to wait for the 8 core ones to make my PC more future proof. I bought the e8400 when it was the top dog back in the day so you can see I like to build to last. Thanks again seriously, whether you know it or not you helped lol
 
You must log in or register to reply here.
Back
Top