As a Christmas gift my youngest wanted an upgrade. His rig is ATX standard cheaper build we acquired about 5 years ago, and it came with an HD6450 GPU with a 300W power supply. I moved him to a pretty affordable overclocked ASUS GeForce GT750ti. I was pretty sure the 300W would not be sufficient, so rather than upgrade to just enough I wanted to get one big enough for a yet to be determined future (mobo/cpu/ram or faster ssd+raid sata next time). I went with a very flexible 750W single rail power supply. We also gave him a new 27" wide screen HD monitor and a gaming mouse/keyboard. At this point, his rig is a bit IO bound, so next time will most likely be a disk performance upgrade. Big smiles and joy for him.
We performed the computer surgery this morning, and he's running his most intense games at max settings with no issues, within temp, and no issues at all. My biggest concern was whether the PCIe 3.0 card would perform well in a 2.1 socket. But, there are no issues.
We performed the computer surgery this morning, and he's running his most intense games at max settings with no issues, within temp, and no issues at all. My biggest concern was whether the PCIe 3.0 card would perform well in a 2.1 socket. But, there are no issues.
”There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy." - Hamlet (1.5.167-8), Hamlet to Horatio.
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