Upgrading from 8800 GTS (640MB)

Revtek · May 12, 2014

Hi all,

I recently built a rig with the FX-8320 and ASUS M5A97 R2.0 board.

I tried using my GTX 460 but kept getting random crashes where the display driver would stop working or my system would lock up.

Since then, I put in an old 8800 GTS which runs perfectly fine.

This rig is mainly to host my Plex server with video rendering in Handbrake and to play World of Tanks...

Can you recommend a sub $100 card that would be a better upgrade than the 8800 GTS?

ATMINSIDE · May 12, 2014

If you can swing a GTX 750, that would be optimal.

The GTX 650 is just under $100 most of the time now.

Revtek · May 12, 2014

I'm finding the price difference between the 750 and 650 to be around $20... And the 750 looks like the passmark scores are worth the extra $20.

Any other opinions before I buy the 750?

ATMINSIDE · May 12, 2014

Revtek said:
I'm finding the price difference between the 750 and 650 to be around $20... And the 750 looks like the passmark scores are worth the extra $20.

Any other opinions before I buy the 750?

Honestly, no.
The AMD's with equivalent performance pull way more power than the 750.

That 750 doesn't even take a PCIe power connection... It has a 55W TDP :shock:

Revtek · May 12, 2014

Impressive. Thanks for the help - now to find the cheapest 750 I can find... I don't care if it's used

ATMINSIDE · May 12, 2014

Revtek said:
Impressive. Thanks for the help - now to find the cheapest 750 I can find... I don't care if it's used

I believe that EVGA I linked is the cheapest new.

Might find something on eBay, but I haven't seen many popping up used.
(They released pretty recently)

Revtek · May 13, 2014

Thanks ATMINSIDE. I installed it and it runs World of Tanks on highest settings... I'm very happy with this GPU.

ATMINSIDE · May 13, 2014

Revtek said:
Thanks ATMINSIDE. I installed it and it runs World of Tanks on highest settings... I'm very happy with this GPU.

Glad you like it

Upgrading from 8800 GTS (640MB)

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