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Tarumon on 29 December 2012
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adriane23 said:
Squilliam said:
adriane23 said:
Squilliam said:

He has a 300W PSU so the maximum would probably be:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16814102969

But you'd have to look inside your computer to make sure you have two of these available to plug something into:



But overall it would run all modern console ports at full HD.

That's pretty cheap. Are their any performance differences between that AMD and a similar NVidia card? I heard that NVidia cards were better overall, but I don't keep up on that stuff.

When I opened my PC a few months ago for cleaning, I'm pretty sure I saw two power cables, but I'll be checking when I get home. Thanks for the input.

AMD currently has the design wins in the next generation consoles and their architecture is pretty great. They are about equivalent with nVidia but given the fact you have a weak PSU the better energy efficiency of AMD ought to be better because the AMD architecture hard caps the power consumption so I can be more comfortable recommending it.

Thanks for the advice. I think I might just upgrade my PSU to a 500W as well, but if I don't, I'll just go with the Radeon 7750 you suggested.


Radeon 7750 (I had 2) is a very low power drawing card....very low.  If you are considering upgrading, building your own rig, I highly suggest a Kill A Watt meter to test the max power draw by running varius cpu and gpu intensive tests (many available for free).  It is not very powerful but a great value. I was able to run TWO 7750 overclocked, SSD plus the original 1Tb harddrive, overclocked CPU, and the original PSU did just fine.  

But if your budget is $250, and this thing is only $109, please keep in mind that even if you crossfire 2, the performance would be less than the gpu that costs twice the money today.  So buying the best performance for your budget is the best bet, as that gpu stands half a chance to be brought over to your next rig crossfired or traded in.  It's a never ending cycle, and it almost never pays at the end.  You will get almost there performance when you build your own system.  Trying to squeeze more performance via overclocking etc will introduce overheating problems (thus fan upgrades, water cooled systems etc).  I have first hand experience with an i7 Gateway just like yours and eventually had to get new motherboard, ddrm, ssd, etc. It was fun as heck.  And don't let me get into "mechanical" keyboards, once you switch to that you would never turn back.