New video card for existing system questionPost Date: 2015-01-22 |
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Astanyax
Newbie Joined: 18 Aug 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5 |
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Topic: New video card for existing system question Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 12:53pm |
I have had my current Digital Storm PC since August, 2011. Everything has been great until two weeks ago when I was getting a crashing problem.
It seems that one of the video cards in my SLI is dieing. I have disabled SLI and my monitors are plugged into the video card that is working. Going forward, I am leaning to scrapping the SLI in the rig and going with one video card. My questions is: do you have a recommendation for a single video card that would work within this existing system, i.e. with the psu? Still gaming at 1900 x 1200 and do not intend to get new monitors anytime soon. My configuration was: Pre-built Digital Storm ODE Level 3 Processor: Intel Core i7 2600K 3.40GHz (Unlocked CPU for Extreme Overclocking) (Quad Core) Motherboard: ASUS Sabertooth P67 (Intel P67 Chipset) (New & Improved B3 Revision Without SATA 3G Issue) System Memory: 8GB DDR3 1600MHz Corsair XMS3 Series (High-Performance) Power Supply: 800W Corsair GS (Dual SLI Compatible) Video Card(s): 2x SLI Dual (NVIDIA GeForce GTX 570 1.2GB (Includes PhysX Technology) Your input would be greatly appreciated. Thanks |
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bprat22
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Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 1:32pm |
Hi Astanyax... My pick would be the gtx 970. It'll match if not beat your sli 570s. Your motherboard is Pciex 2.0 and new cards are Pciex 3.0 but they are backward compatible with no performance loss. Your 800 w psu is more than enough. The 970 will use a lot less power, quieter and less heat.
Good luck. |
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Astanyax
Newbie Joined: 18 Aug 2009 Online Status: Offline Posts: 5 |
Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 1:55pm |
thank you.
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bprat22
DS ELITE DigitalStorm East -- (Unofficially!) Joined: 08 Jun 2011 Online Status: Offline Posts: 20391 |
Quote Reply Posted: 22 Jan 2015 at 2:03pm |
My pleasure.
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